TIDE POD CHALLENGE -- the trend that killed people
Consumption of Tide Pods is the act of ingesting the Tide Pods brand's laundry detergent pods. Since 2012, Procter & Gamble has been selling a line of laundry detergent pods under the brand name Tide. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have classified Tide Pods as a health risk because, like most detergents, they can be fatal if consumed. According to media reports, youngsters and people with dementia who mistake the pods for candy may put their health or lives in jeopardy if they consume them. More than 7,000 instances of young toddlers eating laundry pods were reported to poison control centres between 2012 and 2013, and by 2017, six fatalities were linked to Procter & Gamble laundry pod ingestion. Late in December 2017, Tide Pods started to become popular online. The "Tide Pod Challenge," which comprised a dare to purposefully ingest the pods, was inspired by their appearance in Internet memes in the beginning of 2018. Early in 2018, media repor
