Notre Dame’s roof might be reconstructed with the same wood used centuries ago—it’s more fire-resistant than you think.
2010年3月19日 星期五
child-resistant,childproof, multi-drug resistant
The World Health Organisation is warning that multi-drug resistant tuberculosis is becoming a major threat to global public health and security. The pressure is now on researchers to find new forms of treatment.
Name of Product: “Gas Match” and “Ready, Aim…Fire” Multi-Purpose Lighters
Units: About 24,000
Importer: YMCA Trading Inc., of Maspeth, N.Y.
Hazard: The multi-purpose lighters fail to meet federal safety standards because they might not contain a child-resistant mechanism, posing a potential fire and burn hazard to young children.
說明 child-resistant包裝
In the 1960s there were several ingestions of aspirin by children. Many of these resulted in serious injury or death. In response, the United States Congress passed the Poison Prevention Packaging Act (PPPA) of 1970 which requires child-resistant packaging on products that could cause serious injury if accessed by young children.
Child-resistant packaging, or "special packaging," is designed or constructed to be significantly difficult for children under five years of age to open within a reasonable time but not difficult for normal adults. Child-resistant packaging saves lives. It is estimated that more than eight hundred children's lives have been saved by the requirement of child-resistant packaging on aspirin and prescription drugs. However, such packaging is called child-resistant, rather than childproof, because some children will be able to open it. For this reason experts caution people to lock up all medicine and hazardous material out of the reach of children.
The adjective resistant has 4 meanings:
Meaning #1: relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection)
Synonym: immune
Meaning #2: incapable of being affected
Meaning #3: disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority
Synonyms: insubordinate, resistive
Meaning #4: incapable of absorbing or mixing with
Synonym: repellent
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