The idea of perforating the caps of pens appears to have started in the United Kingdom, where a new safety standard was adopted in 1990 (BS 7272). Between 1970 and 1984, nine children in the United ...

The hole in the caps of ballpoint pens is there to prevent choking accidents. Our vented caps comply with international safety standards ISO11540. These standards attempt to minimize the risk to ...

In today's edition of Saturday science. we bring you this: holes in pen caps help prevent choking deaths by creating a small passageway for air to slip through. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a ...

We all use pens, but have you ever noticed that there is a small hole in the pen cap, whether it is the BIC's ballpoint pen or the Reynolds? Most pens have a hole in the cap. Science has progressed a ...