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Laser pointers cause serious damage, but they're getting easier to buy - and misuse
Posted 30 November 2018 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Analysis|Consumer Goods and Services|National
ANALYSIS: Laser pointers can cause permanent eye damage and endanger transport workers, yet their availability and misuse create difficult questions for product safety, online sales and enforcement.
<em>This article was sponsored by the Office for Product Safety & Standards</em>
In 2016, a leading eye specialist called for laser pointers to be classed as ‘offensive weapons’ and banned from online sale after it was revealed that at least 47 UK children had suffered permanent eye damage — including blindness — from hand-held laser pointers within the last four years...
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