Poisons household products

Benzyldiethyl[(2,6-xylylcarbamoyl)methyl]ammoniumbenzoate (denatonium benzoate [3734-33-6] Bitrex) is an extremely bitter tasting, nonirritating, and nonmutagenic compound that has been widely used in many household products such as detergents, nail poHsh removers, and cleaning agents, to prevent childhood poisoning. It is also used as an alcohol denaturant. 

Poison Packaging Prevention Act of 1953, last amended in 1990, provides the Consumer Product Safety Commission authority to set standards for the special packaging of any household product to protect children from a hazard. 

Since ETS contains phenol, reducing the amount of smoking indoors will reduce phenol exposures. Household products and over-the-counter medications containing phenol should be stored out of reach of young children to prevent accidental poisonings and skin bums. Always store household chemicals in their original labeled containers. Never store household chemicals in containers that children would find attractive to eat or drink from, such as old soda bottles. Keep your Poison Control Center s number next to the phone. 

Attempts to label dangerous substances with either characteristic or outright unpleasant odors have not been successful with children, the primary victims of accidental poisonings by toxic household products. Children tolerate odors that adults find unpleasant, such as that of butyric acid. The range between the most pleasant and unpleasant odors is much narrower for children around 4years of age than for adults, and also much narrower than for taste stimuli. This means that olfactory cues are not suited to produce aversive responses in children (Engen, 1974b, Cain, 1978). 

Over 1 million cases of acute poisoning occur in the USA each year, although only a small number are fatal. Most deaths are due to intentional suicidal overdose by an adolescent or adult. Childhood deaths due to accidental ingestion of a drug or toxic household product have been markedly reduced in the last 30 years as a result of safety packaging and effective poisoning prevention education. 

Oral statements about the amount and even the type of drug ingested in toxic emergencies may be unreliable. Even so, family members, police, and fire department or paramedical personnel should be asked to describe the environment in which the toxic emergency occurred and should bring to the emergency department any syringes, empty bottles, household products, or over-the-counter medications in the immediate vicinity of the possibly poisoned patient. 

In contrast, in a US Poison Center study of a random sampling of 500 cases of chemical eye exposure over a 6-month period in 1986, the majority (84.4%) occurred in the home and involved household products [15]. These most commonly involved accidental exposures in children [15]. 

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Dogs and cats are commonly poisoned by pesticides, herbicides, household products such as antifreeze, and drugs such as acetaminophen applied by humans to their pets. By far the most common toxicities in these small animals involve various insecticides and the overzealous use of these products by owners attempting to control fleas and ticks on their pets. 

Some of the toxic effects to the skin are allergic in nature. The response to poison oak or poison ivy is an example. Corrosive injury to the skin can occur following contact with many household products. Cutaneous responses to certain drugs can include dangerous exfoliative dermatitis and the Stevens-Johnson syndrome [21,22],... 

Episodes that lead to acute, non-lethal events are many and varied. They range from accidents in the home with household products to consumption of plant and animal toxins from industrial and transportation accidents to skin contact with certain plants such as poison ivy from consumption of too much alcohol to inhaling of certain air pollutants, both outdoors and indoors, that have for some reason accumulated to unusually high levels. 

Acute oral exposures of humans to large amounts of 2-butoxyethanol have been shown to cause coma and respiratory depression, in addition to hematotoxic effects. Although this route of exposure is the least likely for the general population, the existence of many household products containing 2-butoxyethanol or 2-butoxyethanol acetate makes accidental poisoning a potential problem, particularly for children. 

Toxicology Abstracts. U.S.A. Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Monthly. ISSN 0140-5365. Each issue contains approximately 800 abstracts covering the toxic effects of pharmaceuticals, food, agrochemicals, cosmetics, toiletries, household products, industrial chemicals, metals, natural substances, poisons, polycyclic hydrocarbons, nitrosamines, and radiation. Toxicological methods and papers concerned with legislation are also included. 

In 1970, the Poison Prevention Packaging Act was passed in the USA and since that time has steadily increased the number of substances covered by safety packaging to include all prescription medicines, and an increasing number of non-prescription and household products. 

System for about 10,000 household products and medicines to selected poison control systems via terminals... 

NOTE WELL Although these measures were prepared especially for counteracting the poisons listed in Table P-2, they are applicable to all poisons, including those from drugs and household products. 

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Safety in use and handling also includes foreseeable improper use, such as the accidental swallowing of cosmetic products by children. By virtue of their low acute oral toxicity, alkyl polyglycosides do not contribute to the toxicity of cosmetic and other household products. The acute oral toxicity values (LD g) are of the order of several grams per kilogram body weight. In other words, it is virtually impossible to be seriously poisoned by these products. 

Subacute or chronic poisoning of consumers through residues in fruit, vegetables, meat, or dairy products or through improper household use... 

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