The history of poison control centers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_control_center
Poison control center - Wikipedia

@SwiftOnSecurity today: “poison censorship facilities that “”experts”” use to control innovation”

@SwiftOnSecurity I remember the messaging when I was a kid was "don't play with the chemicals under the sink, they are dangerous"

also Mr Yuk stickers

Mr. Yuk Commercial (premiered 1975)

YouTube

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We’ve got Mr Yuk stickers in our house labeling where chemicals are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Yuk

Mr. Yuk - Wikipedia

@SwiftOnSecurity Only *half *of all accidents among children were* *poisonings? Those are rooky numbers, we need to get them up.
@SwiftOnSecurity Berton Roueché did an article on New York's center in the 1950s: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1957/05/04/the-most-delicate-thing-in-the-world. It's also anthologized in "The Medical Detectives". Fascinating stuff.
THE MOST DELICATE THING IN THE WORLD.

ANNALS OF MEDICINE about N.Y.C. Health Dept. Poison Control Center, and talk with Harold Cousminer on one of his night tours of duty. The Center opened in …

The New Yorker

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"Around this time up to half of all accidents in children were poisonings..."

How could this be that's astonishing.

@nlarson830 @SwiftOnSecurity packaging, I guess. Everything came in tins or packets. Now it's plastic safety lids everywhere.
@SwiftOnSecurity "after WWII there was a proliferation of new drugs & chemicals" tells you all you need to know about the industrial military complex.