A study conducted thirty years ago had indicated that beverage can pull-tabs were being injested by children, and this led to the manufacture of stay-tabs. This has also been found to be risky.

Three decades ago, a study revealed that beverage can pull-tabs were being swallowed by children, prompting a switch by U.S. manufacturers to stay-tabs. But a study presented today at the annual ...

CHICAGO -- Pop-top tabs are supposed to stay on soda cans, but they may still end up in children's stomachs, researchers said here. So-called "stay-tabs" were introduced in the 1970s as an ...

This little indentation, often mistaken for a place to hold a straw, serves a far more critical purpose: it’s the key to the smooth operation of the stay-on tab. The stay-on tab relies on a ...

since they're not actually pull tabs anymore. I think the modern ones are technically called stay-tabs. I suppose it's like how we still call it rolling up/down a car window." Another person ...