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but at least its not forbidden in the USA like the Surprise Egg
At least it's not forbidden in the USA yet.
I’d honestly be surprised if there were more kinder egg injuries than avocado pit related injuries, given how frequently people stab themselves in the hand trying to remove them. I get that those are mostly adults instead of kids and less likely to be deadly.
AFAIK the number of fatal incidents involving kinder eggs is in the single digits in the last 35 years and they were caused by the toys inside of the egg not the plastic egg itself.
You can just break the chocolate egg with a table or your hand, you do not have to cut the toy out!
Not that I feel a need to defend the USA, but afaik the ban is a general ban on putting non-edible items in food, and not a ban on surprise eggs specifically.
Should avocado's be banned then?
Only if they put non edible items in them.
I never considered the oversized wooden marbles as edible
I don't think they are, but also nobody put them in there.
Anyone wanna guess number of accidental deaths avoided by that ban?
Or additional deaths if it had unforeseen consequences!
We don't have to guess! There's apparently been 10 reported deaths worldwide since they were introduced 51 years ago.
For context, 12 children die each day from gun violence in the US alone.
But you can’t ban guns in US, because “mah freedom!”
Only have to interpolate then!
Thanks for that. Wouldn’t have checked myself this time, so appreciate it.
Out of curiosity…
Would you personally keep the ban? (No one wants dead kids, but we do want kids to e.g. ride bikes even though at scale bicycle fatalities are essentially inevitable, making it an honest question I hope.)
“What did it cost” they say
Well, UK Parliament did discuss the matter and concluded that because the choking was a result of playing with a toy with small parts, not to do with the fact that it was in an egg originally, that a ban would naturally extend to any toy with small parts.
None of the kids accidentally ingested the toys while eating the eggs - if you've ever had one you'll know why that would be impossible.
So I'd get rid of the ban. That law was not put in place to stop Kinder Surprise Eggs - it's an unforeseen side effect of a law that was genuinely intended to protect people when it was written.
Ohhh great insight of theirs, very interesting!
Just thinking about it for a second I wonder if those same parents would’ve handed those same kids the same size toy. Maybe those kids did have equivalent size toys in the house in which case I would wonder if there was some kind of contextual “I eat chocolate, this toy was in chocolate” kind of issue.
Pure speculation so if neither of those points mattered then maybe I would unban as well.
typo edit: “hate” to “eat”
To be fair, there is another aspect to this. The children involved were mainly 3, and the eggs do say for ages 3+.
Most people don't buy teeny tiny toys for their three year olds.
It's a tricky one. I think the problem could largely be addressed by slightly raising the age to 4+, the same as Lego.
Less than tide pods?
They need to start putting the tide pods in the surprise eggs.
Tide surprise!™