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PhotoLow-cost, no-trouble instant cups of soup and noodles are popular with harried moms looking to serve their child a hot meal but a lawsuit filed today charges that design flaws make them a serious burn hazard.

The Pawa Law Group today is filing a products liability case in California Superior Court on behalf of a three-year old boy who was badly burned by a CupSoup that tipped over and spilled its scalding hot contents on him in 2012.  

The scalding hot soup caused severe burns to sensitive areas of the boy's body that have required skin graft operations and extensive medical care. The lawsuit alleges that Nissin, the manufacturer of CupSoup, defectively designed the product by making it unstable and susceptible to tipping over and spilling its contents onto consumers.

According to the allegations of the case, CupSoup is highly unstable due to its narrow base and other dimensions that make it top-heavy and easily tipped over. The suit quotes peer-reviewed articles in academic journals that have found that about 600 children wind up in emergency rooms each year because of instant soup and noodle burns.

Design flaws

Design flaws in certain instant noodle containers have been documented by emergency room burn doctors as a serious cause of injury to children. Approximately 600 children each year are admitted to emergency room burn units for injuries resulting from instant soup burns, mainly due to faulty packaging according to a report by  emergency room burn doctors. Please find the three peer reviewed attached.  

While some kinds of instant soup are sold in containers that are wide and low and thus less susceptible to tipping over, others, like CupSoup, are unstable and tip over easily, according to a scientific study published in the Journal of Burn Care & Research.

Small children are particularly susceptible to burns as they have more sensitive skin than adults and older children. The contents of instant soup, such as noodles, also tend to stick to skin, thus increasing the severity of burns.

The nationwide litigation filed today is intended to change how instant soup containers are designed so as to protect children and stop the epidemic of burns.

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Kathy Butcher
PARENTS NEED TO BE AWARE OF THE DANGER WITH THE CUP OF NOODLE PRODUCTS.
Kathy Butcher
PARENTS NEED TO BE AWARE OF THE DANGER WITH THE CUP OF NOODLE PRODUCTS.
Peggy Hiles
I would NEVER give a child this container to eat from! Good grief, common sense goes a long way..... First off, they are way to unstable for a child, and second , the container keeps the soup HOT for a long time, so more chance of burning their mouth!
Beth Link
I was disturbed by this news bite and the law suit..... How could any responsible person place any soup container (or hot coffee, tea, mug, bowl, meal plate) within a child's reach.... And just as critical, how could an ethical parent shift the blame to the soup company and its packaging! Come on..... This woman is trying to get rich off of the pain of her child.....This burns me up!
Loretta Thomas
Next a parent will sue over mac n cheese microwave meal cups. Cup of noodles are in a cup that can spill over if given to a young child. No different then giving him/her a regular mug of hot cocoa. A young child might spill it. Why would cup of noodles have to put a warning like, "caution. Boiling water may burn you" duh I feel bad for the children though. Parent fail giving them something that hot and not letting it cool off first.
Kathy Butcher
What I saw was this woman is suing but she had not given her little one the cup of noodles. Her "older" child has set the cup on the table. She saw the toddler approaching it, after climbing up on a chair. The older child was attempting to move the cup from the little one's reach. The cup toppled. One can only assume that the little one's legs were bare. He has had several skin grafts and will require more surgeries in the future. They explained that the noodles themselves actually stick to the skin causing additional burning. So, having had similar accidents through the years reaching for a cup (luckily containing something messy but not capable of such burns) only to have it topple, this particular HOT stuff is very dangerous. The doctor interviewed showed that because the cup tapers to narrow at the bottom, it makes it much easier to tip. He would like to see the noodle's containers changed.
Kathy Butcher
What I saw was this woman is suing but she had not given her little one the cup of noodles. Her "older" child has set the cup on the table. She saw the toddler approaching it, after climbing up on a chair. The older child was attempting to move the cup from the little one's reach. The cup toppled. One can only assume that the little one's legs were bare. He has had several skin grafts and will require more surgeries in the future. They explained that the noodles themselves actually stick to the skin causing additional burning. So, having had similar accidents through the years reaching for a cup (luckily containing something messy but not capable of such burns) only to have it topple, this particular HOT stuff is very dangerous. The doctor interviewed showed that because the cup tapers to narrow at the bottom, it makes it much easier to tip. He would like to see the noodle's containers changed.
Lisamarie Moten
wow its about time..this flaw has bn around..theyv had ample time 2chang..& now the company stands to lose more than dollars..the public TRUST!
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