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Effect of Packaging and Appearance on Childhood Poisoning

Vacor Rat Poison

Timothy R. Schum, M.D.

Department of Pediatrics, The Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Children's Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Barry S. Lachman, M.D., M.P.H.

Department of Pediatrics, The Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Children's Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Over a 13-month period, 14 patients were hospitalized at Milwaukee Children's Hospital for rodenticide ingestions. Ten of the 14 patients ingested Vacor Rat Poison (N-3-pyridylmethyl N'-p-nitrophenyl urea). Small children could easily mistake Vacor, which resembles corn meal, for breakfast cereal. To intervene for safer packaging of toxic substances, pediatricians need to be aware of the health hazard posed to children by attractive packaging.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 21, No. 5, 282-285 (1982)
DOI: 10.1177/000992288202100504
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