Packaging Causes Thousands of Injuries

Wrap rage describes the anger and frustration caused by difficult-to-open packaging, and a British study estimated that packaging injuries sent more than 60,000 people for hospital treatment each year. In a 2004 survey of 2,000 readers of the British magazine Yours, 71% said they had suffered an injury while opening food packaging. Separately, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission estimated that attempts to open packaging caused about 6,500 emergency room visits in 2004.

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