Kids often see the bright red and blue of laundry pods and mistake them as candy, and they’re heading to emergency rooms in alarming numbers.

More than 17,000 incidents of children ingesting laundry-detergent packages had been recorded by poison-control centers across the nation between 2012 and 2013, according to a report in the journal Pediatrics. One child has even died after ingesting the ingredients of the pods.

Laundry pods, which are jaw-breaker sized single-use containers of concentrated liquid detergent, have a flexible outer membrane that can easily be perforated by young children trying to bite into them, says the study.

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STORY: http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/children-poisoned-colorful-laundry-pods-they-mistake-candy