A more recent study by Jamnadas-Khoda et al. [7] examined the cooling properties of certain household beverages and
demonstrated similar cooling rates to our study. The authors concluded that hot beverages took 5–10 min to cool to 65 C
and therefore had the potential to cause ‘‘full thickness burns’’. When referring to the initial research carried out by Moritz and Henriques [2] into the relationship between surface temperature and time of exposure in the causation of burns, we believe the paper by Jamnadas-Khoda et al. [7] and others [5,12] have incorrectly interpreted the original publication.
Moritz and Henriques constantly refer to ‘‘trans-epidermal necrosis’’ and to the destruction of the ‘‘epidermis’’ as an end
point for their experiments and not to a ‘‘full thickness burn’’ [2]. The reference, in these publications [5,7], to 2 s of exposure at 65 C causing a ‘‘full thickness burn’’ should in fact be to the causation of a ‘‘burn’’