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National Poison Prevention week is March 14-20, 2010.
More than 2 million poisonings are reported each year to the 61 Poison Control Centers across the country. The majority of poisonings occur in the home and involve children younger than 6 years old.
National Poison Prevention Week was established by Congress in 1961 and designated as the [...]
Read what the CPSC has to say about National Poison Prevention Week.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Each year, unintentional poisonings from consumer products commonly found in the home kill about 30 children and prompt more than 2 million calls to the nation’s poison control centers. More than 90% of these calls involve poisonings in the home. [...]
