Hot dog ‘must be redesigned to reduce choking hazard’
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 at
7:36 pm
The respected American Academy of Paediatrics is calling for sweeping changes in the way hot dogs are designed and labelled to minimise the chances of youngsters dying.
Every year food-related choking kills up to 77 children in the US and up to 15,000 more are treated in emergency rooms.
About 17 per cent of the food-related chokings are caused by hot dogs, according to a report by the academy.
It wants to see the shape of hot dogs “redesigned” to stop them lodging in children’s throats.
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