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Show Week set for poison prevention The first week of spring also marks National Poison Poi-son Prevention Week. When you do your spring cleaning, remember to clean out all potentially poisonous substances from the kitchen cabinet, the medicine cabinet and wherever polishes, solvents, sol-vents, pesticides, cleansers, clean-sers, and old medicines may be stored. Each year more than 100,000 youngsters are accidentally poisoned as a result of adult's carelessness. careless-ness. Safer Packaging techniques have helped tremendously, but constant con-stant caution is mandatory. manda-tory. This year's poison prevention theme speaks for itself: Children act fast So do poisons. Think about it. And then get busy checking poisonous poison-ous household products and medicines before some unsuspecting child in your household beats you to it. Do it this week.... National Poison Prevention Week. |