A symposium at the World Health Organization's 11th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion in Wellington, New Zealand, on October 1-4, 2012, will bring together engineers, scholars, biomedical experts, and other stakeholders from around the world to pursue solutions to eliminate hazards posed by the ingestion of coin and button cell batteries.
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The symposium, Coin/Button Cell Battery Ingestion Hazard Mitigation Strategies, will address the detection and treatment of battery-related injuries and mitigation strategies such as ingestion deterrents, preventing current flow, or cell deactivation strategies that eliminate the hazards of electrical current if cells are swallowed. The idea for the event was initiated by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in July 2011, when CPSC staff proposed the organization of a symposium on safe designs of button batteries to its product safety authority counterparts in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Korea.
Call for papers
A call for papers related to this topic is open through March 20, 2012. Abstracts may be sent to [email protected] in advance of this date. Additional details are available here.
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