Goodbye Toxic Toys

honkiebonkie · Nov 11, 2007

The Chinese government has suspended all exports of a toy found to have been coated with a toxic chemical, China's official Xinhua news agency says.

The move comes after the authorities in the United States, Australia and a number of other countries removed the Bindeez and Aqua Dots toys from sale.

The toy has been blamed for causing illness among a number of children.

The Chinese authorities are reported to have sealed stocks where they were produced, and ordered an investigation.

It is the latest in a number of scandals which have questioned the quality of Chinese-made products.

Date rape drug

Seven more children in the US are reported to have fallen sick after swallowing the toy's bead like parts - which have been found to contain a substance linked to the date-rape drug GHB.

That brings the total of US children needing treatment after swallowing the product to nine. Four children in Australia and two in New Zealand have also fallen sick.

The victims all suffered from dizziness and drowsiness and two of the US children slipped into comas. They have since recovered.

The craft toy has proved extremely popular in both the US and Australia. In 2007, Bindeez was named Australia's Toy of the Year.

It consists of hundreds of brightly-coloured beads that can be arranged into a piece of art and sprayed with water to set.

The beads are meant to be coated in a non-toxic glue, but a batch in Australia was found to be covered with a substance that did not match the approved formula.

Tests showed they were coated with the industrial chemical 1,4-butanediol - which transforms into the banned drug GHB when swallowed.

About 4.2 million units of the toy will be recalled in the US, officials said, and about one million in Australia.

Neither the toys' maker, Australia-based Moose Enterprises, nor the Chinese government have identified the factory or factories where the toys were produced.
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i saw this on the news.. in australia.. bit surprised that its banned in china too~ but i guess its a matter of time. I cant believe that havent found the factory or factories where they were produced.. how could they not?? locate the suppliers.. and things like that.. im so surprised at that!

BigM · Nov 11, 2007

Well.. maybe there were tons of different factories that made those products.. And some only manufactured some of the faulty ones

Or for the sake of the reputation of the factory they didn't want to release it?

ckhar · Dec 27, 2007

what kind of kit test do they use to test it? Any one know about it?

auta · Dec 27, 2007

they shouldnt be eating plastic in the first place..

Knoctur_nal · Dec 27, 2007

nearly every damn toy these days can kill.

Born2beWyld · Dec 27, 2007

It only "contains" the substance in date rape drug. Doesn't mean its effect is similar. Kids fall into comas all the time sniffing glue.

The fact that China makes over 50% of the world's products means that at least 1 out of every 2 product will bear the tag "Made in China". Whose to say that products made elsewhere in the world is not toxic?

aznwu123 · Dec 28, 2007

well toys like that shouldn't be sold for kids anyway.....not and in the us the laws are pretty strict for toys so the chances of toys being toxic is extremely low but i don't see much toys being made in the states ~_~

Goodbye Toxic Toys

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