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Record W4244037920 · doi:10.1093/pch/pxx086.096

FAD OVER FATALITY? THE HAZARDS OF AMBER TEETHING NECKLACES

2017· article· en· W4244037920 on OpenAlex
L Soudek

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Bibliographic record

VenuePaediatrics & Child Health · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicRestraint-Related Deaths
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTeethingAccidentalMedicineToxicologyBiologyDentistryPhysics

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Amber teething necklaces have widespread use as a natural health product to relieve the symptoms of childhood teething. Despite a growing number of injuries and fatalities resulting from their use, no studies exist to date that quantitatively assess the strangulation risk of amber teething necklaces. OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study are to determine (a) if these necklaces release with the force required according to the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Standard Specification for Consumer Product Safety for Mechanical Requirements of Children’s Jewelry, and (b) if they release with the mean force required to occlude a young child’s airway, as determined in a study designed to inform manufacturing of products to reduce risk of accidental strangulation. DESIGN/METHODS: 15 amber teething necklaces were purchased from Canadian retailers. Necklaces were tested using the Breakaway Tension Test method reported in ASTM guidelines. Necklaces were tested with a 15 pound weight (industry standard) and with a 1.6 pound weight (mean force required to occlude a child’s airway). It was recorded whether the necklace released or remained intact at the end of each trial. RESULTS: Seven of fifteen necklaces did not open with 15 lbs of force. Eight of ten necklaces tested did not open with 1.6 lbs of force. CONCLUSION: Almost fifty percent of our sample failed to open with 15 pounds of force, which is the force used in the ASTM standard for children’s jewelry. Eighty percent of our sample failed to open with 1.6 pounds of force, which was the mean force to occlude a young child’s airway in a published study. These necklaces pose a strangulation risk to young children if they were to become caught.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.139
Threshold uncertainty score0.597

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.334
Teacher spread0.313 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it