Oven-cleaner pulled from shelves as boy, 2, is treated after drinking contents

A liquid, oven-cleaning product is being taken off the shelves in Ireland after a toddler in Britain drank its corrosive contents.

Oven-cleaner pulled from shelves as boy, 2, is treated after drinking contents

Callum Blackshaw, aged two, has been in hospital for three weeks after drinking several mouthfuls from a bottle of Oven Pride.

The toddler, from Corringham, Essex, is being cared for at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London and may require an oesophagus transplant after suffering severe internal burns.

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