More toddlers suffer eye burns from laundry packets, study says

BOSTON —  From 2012 to 2015, the number of chemical burns to the eye linked to laundry detergent packets rose more than 30 times among young children, a new study says. More than 1,200 3- and 4-year-olds received such burns in that time period, according to the research published Thursday in the medical journal JAMA Ophthalmology. Single-dose detergent packs, known as laundry packets or pods, entered the mass market in 2012. “Each pod consists of a detergent mixture wrapped in [