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Ha well a camera probably also isn't child safe if you break a piece off and eat it so I'm not sure you've made it any worse.

As for the tubing? That possibly a more interesting question, but I suspect it's being used in an underfunded medical facility or they would have replacements aplenty, and if if comes down to sugru-ed IVs delivering life saving medicine possibly tainted (but no obvious reaction) vs no medicine and probably rapidly apparent and dire consequences, well you can guess what I would (and the doctors/patient) choose. :)



A camera however isn't aimed at being used by children. However part of Sugru's marketing is that it can make a camera child-safe; with the implication that it can be used by children. This potentially makes them liable, while a normal camera manufacture probably isn't.

As for the medical tubing, I agree that is what I would probably choose, but again it's that through their marketing of 'safe for medical tubing' when it hasn't undergone any applicable safety tests; they have potentially made themselves liable should anything go wrong.

It comes down to the fact that if they've marketed it as suitable for such-and-such then they should make sure they've undergone any safety tests that other products use in similar situations.


"A camera however isn't aimed at being used by children"

Many cameras are aimed at children.

http://www.target.com/p/Fishe-Price-See-Yourself-Camera-Purp...

http://www.target.com/p/Vtech-Kidizoom-Camera-Pink/-/A-13357...

etc.


Sure some are, I was generalising. Those that are aimed at children will have undergone appropriate safety testing before going to market.




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