PARENTS should keep children away from bottles of correction fluid because they could harm their health, the Consumer Council warned yesterday.
Many brands of correction fluid contained poisonous solvents which could damage eyes and lungs. Solvents in other brands could explode near a naked flame.
''We advise parents not to use the bottled type of correction fluid. Children do not know how to properly handle it,'' said the chairman of the Consumer Council's media and publicity committee, Anthony Yuen Tak-tim. He recommended the correction-fluid pens, which closed automatically, but which were more expensive.
Solvents like trichloroethane also damaged the environment, and their import would be banned after 1996, Mr Yuen said.
Details of the council's survey on correction fluids are in the latest issue of its magazine, Choice.