Wire-bristle BBQ brush incident reports more than double
'What will it take — a death?' Surgeon urges Health Canada ban on wire brushes
By Katie Nicholson, Vera-Lynn Kubinec, CBC News - Oct 15, 2017
A Health Canada risk-assessment report found the number of reported incidents of bristles coming off a grill-cleaning brush has climbed to 40. In 28 of those cases, a person was injured after ingesting a wire bristle.
A surgeon who has had to treat patients injured after swallowing wire bristles from a barbecue brush says Health Canada should be moving more quickly to take the brushes off the market. . . .
. . . Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes . . . A wire bristle that travelled all the way through stomach, and perforated a patient's small bowel. . . .
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