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The maker of Tide Pods is recalling 8.2 million bag packages of the product because they may be defective, causing them to come open and granting access to the pods themselves.
The affected packages were sold between September 2023 and February 2024 and include bags that held from 12 to 39 laundry detergent pods. You can see a list of all recalled packages on the ...
A Tide Pod from 2016. Laundry detergent pods have been in use in the United States since 2010, although their use in Europe began in 2002. [2] [3] During the Academy Awards telecast in 2012, P&G introduced their Tide Pods "in a sparkling, vibrant commercial."
Tide-To-Go is a product packaged in a pen-like format and intended to remove small stains on the spot, without further laundering. [13] In Puerto Rico, [16] the Tide formula is marketed under the name Ace. Since 2012, Tide has sold Tide Pods, a line of laundry detergent pod, making an estimated 15% of sales.
A new study found that, over a recent three-year period, U.S. poison centers received more than 36,000 calls related to liquid laundry detergent pod exposures.
Laundry pods were advertised as a way to reduce wasted use of powdered and liquid detergent by having precise measurements for a load. For large loads, most brands recommend two pods, with Tide suggesting up to three. Detergent pods cost significantly more than liquid detergent for equivalent laundry loads.
The film in Tide Pods is a polyvinyl alcohol film developed by MonoSol which is intended to dissolve in any temperature water. The pod detergent is also 10 percent water by volume compared to liquid Tide detergent which is 50 percent water by volume. This was done to prevent the pod from melting from having high water volume.
According to a new report, a design trend known as "food imitating products" has worked a little bit too well in the case of Tide Pods, causing danger to vulnerable individuals.