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Kids Think Tide Detergent Packs Are Candy

250 cases this year as company plans design change

By the Associated Press

Posted May 25, 2012 3:25 PM CDT

(AP) – Procter & Gamble plans to change the design of packaging for its miniature laundry detergent product to deter children from eating the brightly colored packets that look like candy, the company says. A rep says the company plans to create a new double-latch lid on tubs of Tide Pods "in the next couple of weeks." Doctors say children sometimes swallow the pods thinking they are edible. Nearly 250 cases have been reported to poison control centers this year. No deaths have been reported.

A warning label is attached to a package of Tide laundry detergent packets.
A warning label is attached to a package of Tide laundry detergent packets.   (Pat Sullivan)
Laundry detergent makers introduced miniature packets in recent months such as this one photographed Thursday, May 24, 2012, in Houston.
Laundry detergent makers introduced miniature packets in recent months such as this one photographed Thursday, May 24, 2012, in Houston.   (Pat Sullivan)
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COMMENTS
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Tology
May 27, 2012 4:10 AM CDT
After reading some of the comments backing up the stupid parents I have come to the conclusion that stupidity and bad parenting skills are an epidemic in this country
lvan
May 26, 2012 7:33 PM CDT
Why this futile attempts to fix stupid? You got to be very dumb to buy something like this if you have children.
JackNelsonSteward
May 26, 2012 10:26 AM CDT
"Kids Think Tide Detergent Packs Are Candy" Really ... and when you chomp down on it ... that doesn't shoot you a clue?

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