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This free and confidential service operates 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Poison Center services are accessible to all populations, including under-served and undocumented groups, and is available in over 150 languages. More than 70 percent of all cases received by Poison Centers can be safely and effectively treated at home.
Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970; Long title: An Act to amend the Federal Hazardous Substances Act to provide for child resistant packaging to protect children from serious personal injury or serious illness resulting from handling, using, or ingesting a hazardous substance, and for other purposes.
Germany has seven designated poison control centers, some serving several states. [22] Calling the centers is free of charge for members of the public. Some centers charge a fee for calls by hospitals or other medical professionals. Baden-Württemberg: Poison Information Center of the Medical Center - University of Freiburg: (0761) 19 240
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The child-resistant locking closure for containers was invented in 1967 by Dr. Henri Breault. [7]A history of accidents involving children opening household packaging and ingesting the contents led the United States Congress to pass the Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970, authored by U.S. Senator Frank E. Moss of Utah.
The National Poison Prevention Week logo. National Poison Prevention Week is observed in the United States the third week of March. The goal of the week is to raise awareness of the risk of being poisoned by household products, medicines, pesticides, plants, bites and stings, food poisoning, and fumes. Awareness being duly raised, it is hoped ...