I ordered some stickers

[conuly]

and on the packaging it says:

"This product is not a toy and is intended for collection or use by individuals aged 14 or above"

They're superhero stickers! 14 and above! What do they think kids are doing, eating them!?

***********************

Naked Mole Rats

Heated Rivalry Was a Fun Fantasy, But Hockey Is Still Deeply Toxic

A Dish of Neurons Playing DOOM Is the Wildest Thing I’ve Seen in Ages

Worms in food, poor medical care, lights on 24/7: Families tell of life in Texas detention center

Comments

[siliconshaman]

You remember the "tide pod challenge" a while back, where kids were eating soap pods? Companies got rather paranoid about kids around their products after that.

[bibliofile]

Labeling to avoid potential legal liability goes back further than that -- I'm not sure when it started.

My favorite was a blow-up dinosaur toy from a Sinclair station, purchased in the 1990s, that had printed on it that it was not to be used as a flotation device.

[profiterole_reads]

Poor US kids aren't even allowed to get Kinder chocolates (Kinder literally means children in German). Though I wouldn't expect stickers to be very dangerous either.

[conuly]

I can buy kinder eggs at my corner store.

[profiterole_reads]

With the toy inside?

[kyrielle]

The US has "Kinder Joy" which is a plastic egg with candy in one half and a toy in the other, instead of the original. Toy is not inside the candy.

[profiterole_reads]

I'm glad they found a way to bypass the law.

[kyrielle]

They're trying to dodge classification as a "children's product" for under-13s, I assume, which might carry enhanced requirements for lead testing and other such things.

And which, notably, does not depend solely on age labels on the product, though that is factored in. I'd be impressed if they have actually dodged it.

[adafrog]

lolol