Designing the Death Out of Balloons
Abstract
Dr Rimell and his colleagues1 deserve accolades for their exemplary research on childhood choking, which appears in this issue of JAMA. It is valuable to have suggestions for changes in regulations based on specific data and to have evidence that long objects with round components are hazardous even when they meet current standards. A staff report to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in 1987 identified as hazardous not only round (spherical) but also teardrop-shaped objects and...