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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."
The researchers discovered that, in the most recent three years of the study, U.S. poison centers received more than 36,000 calls related to liquid laundry detergent pod exposures, which was an ...
The first comprehensive study on the dangers of laundry pods, published in the journal Pediatrics, found that 17,230 children younger than 6 years old -- an average of one child every hour ...
The allure of eating Tide Pods and similar products has been a beloved internet meme for years due to the candy-like appearance of the small laundry detergent pacs. ... If you or your child has ...
Since 2012, Tide has sold Tide Pods, a line of laundry detergent pod, making an estimated 15% of sales. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] In late 2017, an Internet meme was popularized around the concept of eating Tide Pods [ 19 ] and, as a result, people attempted the extremely dangerous "Tide Pods Challenge".
Notable brands of these packs include All, Arm & Hammer, Gain, Purex, Persil, Rinso and Tide. [1] They first became popular in February 2012 when they were introduced by Procter & Gamble as Tide Pods (Ariel Pods in Europe). [1] The chemistry of laundry detergent packs is the same as in liquid detergents (including alkylbenzenesulfonates).
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 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.