Change in packaging could lead to more poisonings

Experts fear court decision will result in children gaining access to iron pills

By Markian Hawryluk / The Bulletin
July 7, 2005

Regulations requiring child-resistant, single-dose packaging for iron supplements may have drastically reduced the incidence of iron poisoning in young children, according to a study published last month in the Archives of Pediatric Medicine.

Those regulations, however, were struck down by a....

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