(A) Antifreeze contains ethylene glycol, an extremely toxic yet sweet-tasting substance that injures many children and kills thousands of animals every year in the United States.
(B) The National Safety Council, the American Medical Association and the American Association of Poison Control Centers have noted that the addition of nontoxic bittering agents to toxic household products can make these products so unpalatable that many children reject the products upon, or shortly after, tasting them.
(C) Organizations that support the health and safety of animals favor the passage of legislation that requires a bittering agent to be added to antifreeze.
(D) The cost to add the most common bittering agent, denatonium benzoate, to antifreeze is approximately 2 cents per gallon, and by law the antifreeze manufacturers already blend antifreeze with this bittering agent for sale in Oregon and California.
(Ord. 3-2004)