Monday, February 22, 2010

Doctors Want To Change Hot Dogs

According to Yahoo Health; pediatricians want the food industry to change the shape of hot dogs and certain candies to help prevent child choking hazards, they are also pushing for warning labels on the packaging. Doctors say they know what sizes and shapes cause the highest risk of choking for kids, they say that cylindrical and round shaped foods have the highest hazard. Hard candy that is round shaped is bad and are hoping to get them changed to a flat shape. I can understand changing candy... but after hot dogs have had the same shape for so long wouldn't it seem unappealing to see them in some different shape? Could you imagine a hot dog patty?