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WA hospital X-rays Halloween candy
Healthcare Security Weekly, October 31, 2005
Samaritan Healthcare in Moses Lake, WA, is offering parents and children the opportunity to see the inside of the candy collected on Halloween, according to the Columbia Basin Herald.
For more than a decade the hospital has offered up its X-ray machine to families on Halloween night to ease the fears of some parents.
While the X-ray shows parents the candy is safe from foreign objects, the children often like the chance to see what the inside of their candy looks like.
Typically somewhere around 15 families show up to use the benefits of the fluoroscpopic X-ray machine, which does not melt the candy or give off an unsafe amount of radiation.
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