{"id":1052898,"date":"2010-05-12T08:16:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T08:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/17-of-food-related-asphyxiations-were-caused-by-hot-dogs-the-perfect-plug-for-a-childs-airway\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:46:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:46:42","slug":"17-of-food-related-asphyxiations-were-caused-by-hot-dogs-the-perfect-plug-for-a-childs-airway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/17-of-food-related-asphyxiations-were-caused-by-hot-dogs-the-perfect-plug-for-a-childs-airway.php","title":{"rendered":"17% of food-related asphyxiations were caused by hot dogs – "the perfect plug for a child’s airway""},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>From Consumer Reports health blog<\/a>:<\/p>

Small toys and foods that are choking hazards should carry warning labels - and some hot dog brands already do.<\/p>

About 17% of food-related asphyxiations were caused by hot dogs. In total, 41% were caused by food items including:<\/p>

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- hot dogs<\/div>
- grapes<\/div>
- carrots <\/div>
- hard candy

Food manufacturers should design new foods and redesign existing foods to avoid shapes, sizes, textures and other characteristics that increase choking risk to children, to the extent possible. <\/p>

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\"If you were to take the best engineers in the world and try to design the perfect plug for a child's airway, it would be a hot dog,\" says statement author Gary Smith. \"I'm a pediatric emergency doctor, and to try to get them out once they're wedged in, it's almost impossible.\"
References:<\/div>
Hot dogs under fire: Doctors push for stronger labeling<\/a>
http:\/\/www.aap.org\/advocacy\/releases\/feb2210studies.htm<\/a><\/div>
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From Consumer Reports health blog:Small toys and foods that are choking hazards should carry warning labels - and some hot dog brands already do.About 17% of food-related asphyxiations were caused by hot dogs. In total, 41% were caused by food … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246864],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neurology"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}