Beverage can stay-tabs pose swallowing risk
Monday, November 30, 2009 - 08:14
in Health & Medicine
Three decades ago, a study revealed that beverage can pull-tabs were being swallowed by children, prompting a switch by U.S. manufacturers to stay-tabs. But a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) found that the new tabs are still potentially unsafe.