CPSC Recalls SpinMaster Aqua Dots toy -- Fatally poisonous

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The Consumer Product Saftety Commission has recalled all Spinmaster Aqua Dots toy products. The product contains a chemical which, if water is added -- and if you swallow something, water is added by definition -- turns into a potentially fatal poison.

This toy has been heavily promoted for Christmas. It's been sold at major retailers across the country including Target, K-mart, and other "big-box" retailers.

You absolutely have to get this toy out of the hands of your children.

The full information is here: http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml08/08074.html

(I know that some will say that this belongs in Gadgets and Gear, but I don't think the death of a child is G&G. This is a genuine, red-alert emergency and needs the broadest possible exposure.)
 
Most of the people who bought these already will never see the alert. :(

At least we can provide it to our members.
 
There is a bead kit that the paint contains a chemical that with water turns into the GBH date rape drug.

Buy Chinese, Die Chinese. I would hope that with the common occurance of these nasty events the importing companies would test anything that was coming from China or face the full charges instead of blaming the manufacturer.
 
Are we at war with the Chinese or something, Because they seem to be trying to Kill us off one at a time. IMO
 
At this point, the CPSC and the new product development community is focused on just getting the word out on this.

Yes, the product was made in China. But, I don't yet know where it was designed, who decided to use this chemical formulation. That information will come out shortly, I'm sure.

For now, though, the goal is just to secure 4.5 million of these things and get them out of people's homes.

This, IMHO, trumps the tampered-Tylenol situation (which was what? 20 or 25 years ago?) as the most important recall ever.

Right now, fixing the problem is more important than fixing the blame.
 
I think this belongs both here and in Gadgets & Gear so I'll copy it over. People go to Gadgets & Gear to find out what toys to buy their kids....
 
My 4 year old daughter has been pestering us to get her this thing, am VERY glad we decided not as I know that my 16 month old son would have eaten them as well (this was the reason we have not bought it). Steven
 
I just had a long discussion with a fellow who found that the new bottle of medicine wasn't working . Pharmacist said it couldn't be ! The FDA was called they responded quickly .The pharmacy should have had a scanner to detect conterfeit drugs but didn't . They went through his entire stock and removed all conterfeit drugs ,fined him for not having scanner . Then off to the distributor to examine his entire stock !! He had opened up a big can of worms as the distributor was a major supplier of drugs for the state of NY. This can of course be very dangerous and when you get drugs make sure the pharmacist checks with his scanner to find out if it's a Chinese counterfeit !!! They can't assume , they must check every bottle no matter where they got it from !!!
 
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