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Candy Apple Scare in The USA

During the 1960s and 1970s, news reports about children supposedly receiving candy apples with pins and razor blades in them, created hysteria during Halloween in the USA. During the hysteria, hospitals offered free X-rays to detect foreign objects in the candy apples.

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