How to Check Halloween Candy

Trick-or-Treating is one of the greatest events in a young child's life. When they come home and dump out their candy treasures, there's always that fear of tainted edibles. The chances of your child receiving poisonous candy are slim, but here are some tips to check everything out just for peace of mind.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Have your child dump out all the candy he received when going door to door. Doing this on a table in a well-lit room is helpful.

2. If you want to be extra safe, separate out all homemade goodies or fresh fruit. Unless you know the neighbor who packed little bags of homemade popcorn or rice krispie treats, or who gave the apple, you might want to throw those away.

3. Remove and toss out all unwrapped candy.

4. Gently inspect the remainder of the store-bought candy for any open packaging or anything that looks like it has been damaged or tampered with.

Tips & Warnings

• It helps if you go with your child trick-or-treating. With supervision, your child will only trick-or-treat to safe houses in a neighborhood you know. This will add to your feeling of security.
• When removing candy from young children's pile try to be discreet. Your child will be excited about her treasure. Steer her toward the safe pieces while you quietly remove the pieces you don't want her to eat.

[favefive]

on 10/30/2007 Excellent tips. You can never be too careful nowadays :)

[favefive]

on 10/30/2007 Excellent tips. You can never be too careful nowadays :)

[verlamiller]

on 10/30/2007 These are very good tips. Another tip is that hospital xray departments will be open to xray this treasure to make sure there are no foreign objects in them.
Verla

[bfreethree]

on 10/29/2007 Thank you. This was an informative article that will help parents and children and possibly save someone's life. Great job.
Barbara