At 10 months old, Esther Jo Bethard died after swallowing a stray water bead — a tiny, absorbent sphere that can grow inside ...
Introduced by Democratic Sens. Tammy Baldwin (Wisc.) and Bob Casey (Penn.) and Republican Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), the bill looks to put a ban on water beads designed or marketed to children ...
Esther’s Law is named after 10-month-old Esther Jo Bethard, who died after swallowing a stray water bead belonging to an ...
According to the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS), in 2022, debris on state roads led to 1,100 crashes and nine ...
Federal lawmakers are calling for a national ban on water beads sold as toys, after severe injuries and deaths linked to ...
Lawmakers are considering a bipartisan bill that would ban the sale of water beads sold as toys, educational products, ...
They’re also indistinguishable from another kind of water-filled sphere. But this one is not at all digestible and, in fact, ...
A bipartisan bill to ban deadly water beads and protect children was introduced Thursday by U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee ...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Water beads are a popular toy, but time and time again they have endangered young children. Now a Pennsylvania senator is among those moving to ban selling the colorful ...
Water beads are small balls made of super-absorbent material, and they can expand up to 100 times their original size, making ...
The Consumer Product Safety Commission says from 2016 to 2022, water beads resulted in nearly 8,000 emergency room visits.