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A New Battery Warns Parents if Their Child Has Swallowed It
jeudi 2 mai 2024, 09:05 , par Slashdot/Apple
Ingested coin or button batteries result in thousands of emergency hospital visits each year, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which notes that 'the consequences of a child swallowing a battery can be immediate, devastating and deadly.' 'A button cell battery can burn through a child's throat or esophagus in as little as two hours if swallowed,' according to the agency. Secure packaging and bitter coatings for batteries have long existed, but 'the massive breakthrough here is the color alert technology, which helps give caretakers that indicator that something has happened,' Jeff Roth, the global category leader for batteries at Energizer, said in an interview on Wednesday. 'The most significant part about this is getting help early in the process,' he said. 'That's really what the color alert technology allows the family to do.' Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/05/02/072208/a-new-battery-warns-parents-if-their-child-has-s...
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