Ford UFO Files

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RADIO TAPE - MARCH 23, 1966
It would ban from commerce those household substances that are so
hazardous that warning labels on them are just not enough to prevent possible
serious injury.
Why are these things important?
Each year, the Food and Drug Administration tells us, more than 500,000
children swallow poisons accidentally. Nearly 500 children under the age
of 5 were among the 2,100 Americans who died in 1964 from taking poison by
accident.
Between 125 and 150 children die and thousands of others get mighty stck
each year from innocently eating large quantities of aspirin they manage to
get hold of.
Kids are kids, and sometimes they just have to be protected from themselves.
Now ••• kids get a terrific kick out of toys, and no child should be without
them. But some toys pack a wallop that nobody would wish on his own worst
enemy. Some toys are made so they contain dangerous substances.
For instance, there are toys made with such things as jequirity beans as
decoration.
Federal officials say that chewing and swallowing just one of these beans
can cause death.
These beans, which grow in the Caribbean area, are sometimes used to
represent the eyes on stuffed animal toys.
When the Administration's Child Safety Act comes to Congress and is sent
to committee for study, it may be some of the provisions will need revd$ing.
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