Microwaves To Add New Safety Features To Prevent Small Children From Opening Them
Changes are coming to new microwaves. Manufacturers will be required to add safety features so young children can t easily open them.
Qiana Foster s son Zamari was badly burned when he was 3 years old and grabbed a bowl of soup from the microwave.
As Zamari picked up the bowl, the hot liquid spilled onto his chest. The pain that I felt, it was like somebody threw a torch at my chest,” Zamari said. As I pulled the shirt off, his skin came off with the shirt,” Foster said.
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Making Microwaves Safer For Children
New journal article recounts Rush pediatricians campaign to protect children from severe burns
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CHICAGO, Jan. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ A 15-year research and advocacy effort to make microwave ovens safer has led to a change in national manufacturing standards that will make microwaves more difficult for young children to open, protecting them from the severe microwave-related burns that scar hundreds of kids under 5 years old in the United States each year. Researchers at Rush University Medical Center and other leaders of the campaign, who worked diligently to document the frequency and severity of these injuries and young children s vulnerability to them, published the results of their efforts in