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>> reporter: they are advertised as a clever replacement for messy, heavy jugs. >> it cleans, brightens and removes stains. >> reporter: in just two years, 6,000 kids rushed to the emergency room, most after eating those detergent packets. more than 17,000 calls to poison control. we went out to see just how easy it is for kids to mistake the detergent for candy. >> if you saw this at home, would you try and eat it? and how about you? >> i tried it. >> reporter: zeland couldn't stop reaching for it. researchers say kids who got sick were often around his age. some ended up in comas. nearly 100...

Report is asking the consumer product safety commission to take steps regarding the dangers that are from those little single use detergent packets that are made by several different companies. we're not pointing the finger at one in particular. what kind of step, the first one, make the colors less appealing to children because they look like candy. poison control centers have received nearly $3,000 calls involving children 5 and under who have ingested them. >> cnbc's mandy drury, thank you. are you fed up with wearing a suit to work? well, you're in luck. a new linked in survey is saying ...