<div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><b>This is horrible! Please pass it on.<br><br></b></font><div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Carys Afoko, SumOfUs.org</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:us@sumofus.org">us@sumofus.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 5:42 AM<br>Subject: Duracell<br>To: Beth Brenneman <<a href="mailto:storyteller2069@gmail.com">storyteller2069@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br><u></u>
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<p><b>Duracell’s button batteries burn through a toddler’s throat in 15 minutes flat. </b></p>
<p>Safe technology already exists -- but Duracell is refusing to switch. A massive public outcry can force it to protect children.<b> Let’s demand it ditch killer batteries now.</b></p>
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<p>Beth,</p>
<p><b>Fifteen minutes. That’s how long a single Duracell button battery takes to burn through the throat of a toddler.</b></p>
<p>Duracell’s small lithium button batteries, used in toys, watches and remotes, are easily swallowed and can kill children -- or leave them unable to speak or eat without help for the rest of their lives.</p>
<p>Duracell can stop this. <b>Engineers invented safe button batteries years ago, but Duracell is still refusing to switch to them.</b> Instead, it is passing responsibility onto parents, telling them to just be careful. A massive public outcry can force Duracell to switch now to save children. </p>
<p><a style="font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;color:#00abbd" href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/349786?t=2&akid=23152.5687069.UItwbO" target="_blank">Duracell: switch to safe button batteries now.</a></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Children are naturally curious and put household objects in their mouths. But here is the scary thing: the e</span>nergy from the battery make the body create an acid that<b> can burn a hole through the throat and lead to serious internal bleeding and death.</b></p>
<p dir="ltr">And it takes as little as 15 minutes. </p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Hospitals are reporting a surge in button battery incidents, and that's why we need to force Duracell to act now. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><b>Duracell makes enough profit that it can afford to switch to safer technology immediately. It is not enough to use warning stickers or to tell parents to use sticky tape to seal batteries.</b><span> Duracell has to take responsibility for its dangerous, child-harming batteries now.</span></p>
<p><a style="font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;color:#00abbd" href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/349786?t=3&akid=23152.5687069.UItwbO" target="_blank">Demand Duracell stop ignoring the dangers and switch to safe button batteries.</a></p>
<p>Thanks for all you do,</p>
<p>Carys, Hanna, Emma and the SumOfUs team</p>
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<p>**********<br>More information: </p>
<p><a href="http://act.sumofus.org/go/349787?t=4&akid=23152.5687069.UItwbO" target="_blank">Button batteries pose 'deadly' risk to toddlers</a>, BBC, 22nd September 2016<br><a href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/349788?t=5&akid=23152.5687069.UItwbO" target="_blank">Keep button batteries away from children, doctors warn parents</a>, The Guardian, 22nd September 2016 <br><a href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/349789?t=6&akid=23152.5687069.UItwbO" target="_blank">Lithium Coin Battery Safety</a>, Duracell, accessed 29th September 2016 </p><img src="http://act.sumofus.org/o.gif?akid=23152.5687069.UItwbO"><p> </p>
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