Child-Resistant Packaging and Poison Control Centers
Save Lives

Each year, approximately 50 children under age 6 die, and more than a million consumers call poison control centers about child poisonings.

At the annual National Poison Prevention Week news conference, Dr. Goldman emphasized the importance of preventing poisonings from pesticides. "In 1996, there were four deaths from pesticide poisoning," noted Goldman, "and poison centers received 100,000 calls about children exposed to pesticides. Poisonings could be prevented if adults would re-secure the child-resistant packaging and keep pesticides locked away from young children." EPA and CPSC use the same standard for child-resistant packaging required on pesticides, medicines, and household chemicals.

CPSC and EPA are members of the Poison Prevention Week Council. This coalition of national organizations works to stop accidental poisonings by distributing information and by encouraging local poison control centers, pharmacies, public health departments, and others to conduct poison prevention programs in their communities to help prevent poisonings.

Dr. George Rodgers, President of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, emphasized the life-saving advice provided by the nation's poison control centers. "Poison control centers save lives and health care costs. Every dollar spent on a poison control center saves about $7 in medical expenses. Without poison centers, victims would have to go to emergency rooms. Without immediate intervention, some victims might die."

Another participant at the National Poison Prevention Week news conference was 2-year-old Amy Spangenberg, from Centreville, Va. She was poisoned when she swallowed some moth balls a neighbor had scattered on the ground to repel animals. Through quick action advised by a poison control center, the 2-year-old girl recovered completely.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission protects the public from the unreasonable risk of injury or death from 15,000 types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction.

To report a dangerous product or a product-related injury and for information on CPSC's fax-on-demand service, call CPSC's hotline at (800) 638-2772 or CPSC's teletypewriter at (800) 638-8270.

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Child Resistant Packaging Saves Lives

Child-Resistant Packaging and Poison Control Centers Save Lives

Child-Resistant Packaging and Poison Control Centers
Save Lives