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by dpark
3493 days ago
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Out of curiosity, did you read those case studies? In the two listed, the children swallowed a single magnet, which is actually not particularly dangerous. More problematic were the button batteries these children also swallowed. Do we ban button batteries also? Also, is there much evidence of teens actually doing this and accidentally swallowing them? I have no doubt that teens are playing with the magnets in stupid ways, but how many teens have swallowed magnets this way and had complications? The CPSC claims its happening but provides no breakout stats for this. http://onsafety.cpsc.gov/blog/2011/11/10/magnet-dangers/ Also also, I have serious doubts about the accuracy of the claims the CPSC is making. On the page I linked, they clam "22 reports of magnet incidents involving children between the ages of 18 months and 15 years old since June 2009" through Nov 2011 and provide a yearly breakout of all those reports. In the press release poison.org cites, they claim "CPSC staff estimates that small, high powered magnet sets were associated with 1,700 emergency room-treated injuries between 2009 and 2011." So they estimate two orders of magnitude higher than they actually have reports for? https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2012/CPSC-Starts... |
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No, I have not read the more than 1,300 case studies of children taken to hospital after swallowing these magnets.
> Do we ban button batteries also?
We mandate that button batteries are supplied in toys that cannot be opened, or that can only be opened with a screwdriver.