This political candidate needs to come clean.
In Taiwan, three people were hospitalized after eating laundry pods distributed as giveaways during the current presidential campaign.
The three, whose names have not been released, are said to have mistaken colorful liquid laundry detergent for candy. Associated Press report.
It turned out that one of those who had been tricked into eating the food was an 80-year-old man, and the other was an 86-year-old woman.
All three victims had their stomachs lavaged by doctors and are expected to make a full recovery.
Most laundry pods contain ethanol, polymers, and hydrogen peroxide, which are highly toxic.
According to reports, 460,000 pods were distributed by the Kuomintang Party office on behalf of presidential candidate Hou Yuxi.
Hung Jun-chan, director of the Kuomintang Party office in central Taiwan, apologized for the incident.
“We will not distribute this type of campaign material during our next door-to-door canvassing,” Hung said. “We will also emphasize to villagers through grassroots organizations that they are laundry balls, not candy.”
In 2018, Fox News reported that laundry pods were responsible for at least 10 deaths, including two young children and eight elderly people with dementia.
In the same year, the media The “Tide Pod Challenge” sounded the alarm. It took social media by storm. Dozens of teens posted videos of themselves chewing and vomiting on pods made by detergent brand Tide.
Various other similar brands were also used by teens who took part in the challenge before anyone else did.
The panic prompted politicians to propose legislation that would prohibit detergent companies from making their Tide pods look appetizing.
New York State Sen. Brad Hoylman and Arabella Simotas will require companies to require detergents to be “a uniform color that is unappealing to children” and have “opaque packaging that is difficult to penetrate even if a child chews on it.” proposed a bill. ”
