--- title: Laundry Detergent Pods Sending Kids to Hospital Less Frequently description: There were 17,000 cases of children coming in contact with products in 2013 and 2012 canonical: https://time.com/3577088/laundry-detergent-pods-children-safety/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-11T00:14:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T11:21:03.872Z article:section: Health og:title: Study: Laundry Detergent Pods Sending Children to Hospital Less Often og:description: From 2012-13 there were 17,000 cases of kids encountering the products og:url: https://time.com/3577088/laundry-detergent-pods-children-safety/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Study: Laundry Detergent Pods Sending Children to Hospital Less Often twitter:description: From 2012-13 there were 17,000 cases of kids encountering the products twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Study: Laundry Detergent Pods Sending Kids to Hospital Less Frequently  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Nov 11, 2014 12:14 AM UTC  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Nov 11, 2014 12:14 AM UTC Laundry detergent pods sent [hundreds of children to the hospital](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-10/detergent-pods-blamed-for-sending-thousands-of-kids-to-hospitals.html?hootPostID=2041ef4be21f985c2e4f183879ed4f52) after more than 17,000 kids in the U.S. came into contact with them in 2012 and 2013, according to a new study. At least one of those cases, all children age six and under, resulted in death, Bloomberg reports; 4.4 percent of the cases resulted in hospitalization. The data came from the National Poison Data System, which revealed that the number of exposures to laundry pods increased more than sevenfold between March 2012 and April 2013. The good news is that the number of children ingesting the products appears to be on the decline. There was a 25 percent decline in the number of cases of that between April and December of last year. Detergent manufacturers have spent the past two years working with the Consumer Product Safety Commission to cut down on accidents, the American Cleaning Institute said in response to the study. \[[_Bloomberg_](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-10/detergent-pods-blamed-for-sending-thousands-of-kids-to-hospitals.html?hootPostID=2041ef4be21f985c2e4f183879ed4f52)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3577088/laundry-detergent-pods-children-safety/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3577088/laundry-detergent-pods-children-safety/"},"headline":"Study: Laundry Detergent Pods Sending Kids to Hospital Less Frequently","datePublished":"2014-11-11T00:14:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:21:03.872Z","description":"There were 17,000 cases of children coming in contact with products in 2013 and 2012","url":"https://time.com/3577088/laundry-detergent-pods-children-safety/","keywords":["Research","Children","health","Poison","Laundry"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/research/","name":"Research"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3577088/laundry-detergent-pods-children-safety/","name":"Study: Laundry Detergent Pods Sending Kids to Hospital Less Frequently"}}]}] ```