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WARNING
Tubes may contain toxics.
Every second counts!
Call 911, if victim has
collapsed or is not breathing.
otherwise call
Poison Help 1-800-222-1222
For Poison Emergencies and Expert Advice, Anytime, Anywhere in USA. Free and Confidential. TDD for hearing impaired and translators for non-english speaking callers.
Also see Protect kids and pets and
Help Tubes Help!
This book by Howard R. Lemcke

Should be a movie.

Death In A Fish Pond by Howard R. Lemcke
(Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune)
Review Salt Lake Tribune, 6/11/05.
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Links and Back

We are working on our links area being a resource guide to help bring quality squeeze tube information and resources to our users. Suggest a link here ww@cinch1.com.
Collapsible Squeeze Tube Organizations:
  • www.tube.org The Tube Council is the North American collapsible squeeze tube industry trade association, founded in 1937 [squeeze tube manufacturers, process machinery manufacturers, component suppliers, publishers and educators] promoting tubes as the package of choice. See Tube Council History.
  • www.etma-online.org The European Tube Manufacturers Assoc. (ETMA), founded in 1959, as an association of producers of tubes for packaging, representing 52 companies from 19 European countries.
  • http://www.ceepackaging.com/about/ The Packaging Industry in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) a new magazine based in Warsaw, Poland and with offices in Moscow and Frankfurt.
  • www.impactintl.com.au/food.htm The Impact group (Australia) promotes the use of tubes within the food industry.
    Collapsible Squeeze Tube Safety: tubes may contain toxics!
  • www.1-800-222-1222.info is the US national poison control phone number information site run by the AAPCC and the CDC. Great links!
  • www.aapcc.org American Assoc. of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC).
  • www.cdc.gov Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
    • Collapsible Squeeze Tube Safety: NOT in Great links above.
  • www.who.int/ipcs/poisons/centre/directory/en/ World Health Organization (WHO), world directory of poison control centers (Yellow Tox lists), with national poison help phone numbers for 70+ countries, all can Help Tubes Help.
  • www.householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/index.htm Household Products Info. Search(toothpaste) 64 of 66 have warning, zero with Poison Help #!
  • http://www.chp.edu/mryuk/05a_mryuk.php Mr. Yuk created in 1971 by Pittsburgh Poison Center at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Stickers+
  • www.homesafetycouncil.org The Home Safety Council.
  • www.asaging.org American Society on Aging
  • http://npic.orst.org National Pesticide Information Center
  • www.aspca.org Their Animal Poison Control Center, may charge $55.
  • www.inhalants.org Inhalant Abuse Coalition
  • www.atsdr.cdc.gov Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
  • www.fsis.usda.gov Food Safety Info from US Dept of Agriculture
  • www.osha.gov Poisoning from workplace exposures.
  • http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov Environmental exposures ToxTown site.
  • www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/ US Homeland Security Department
  • www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html CIA World Fact Book on world conditions, i.e. populations of collapsible squeeze tube users.
  • www.cpsc.gov U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
  • www.acminet.org/Safety.htm The Art & Creative Materials Institute, Inc. (ACMI) saftey page.