Recall ordered for toy that turns into drug

[Chantilyvamp]

Okay maybe not the normal topic for here but with the upcoming holiday season plus birthdays for kids its a good one to know about. We bearly bought it ourselves.

Bindeeze

A bindeeze bender...now thats a new one

 

[keeblercrumb]

Okay maybe not the normal topic for here but with the upcoming holiday season plus birthdays for kids its a good one to know about. We bearly bought it ourselves.

Bindeeze

A bindeeze bender...now thats a new one

While I am sure that sales amongst adolescents will now soar on this news.... (I recall baking bananas.... ) (and dinking coke with aspirin) (neither worked)(not sure about coke and the half bottle of aspirin because my Mom made me vomit them up) (Good Mom!) (I think I told her I had a really bad headache)... the nature of the toy seems fairly bizarre.....

What age group were these things aimed at? I thought toy manufacturers were hyper award of the tendency of kids to ingest things.... Even without the drug interaction, these can't be real good for you......

-KC

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

A good thread to start, whether it be about this toy or another. . .Recalls for toys these days are becoming a dime a dozen. *shakes head* Just don't recall MY toys. Then again, I break mine within a few months of owning them. . .so I don't have them long enough to harm me.

 

[scheherazade_79]

No one will want to buy anything from China if they keep this up. When are they going to learn?

Thanks for the heads-up, Chantily

 

[TheEarl]

I'm quite interested in the toy manufacturer's response of "We'll add an ingredient to give it a foul taste." I wouldn't've thought taste was a huge consideration over whether things were swallowed by children of that age.

The Earl

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

Another recalled toy...

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml08/08068.html

 

[dr_mabeuse]

GHB is actually a very simple chemical and occurs in trace amounts all over the place. It's safe to say that you probably eat some every day.

When they made it illegal it caused a super headache in the lab I was working in because we had bottles of the stuff all over the site. It went from being common as sand to being a Schedule I narcotic like heroin.

--Zoot

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

I do know that a lot of the toys I played with as a child contained lead... tractors, cars, etc. We lived on a dairy farm, so we had a lot of those big metal tractors and toy wagons, truck, et. Lead soldiers too that my dad had as a child.

 

[Guest]

That's just really stupid/negligent to put a toy out like that and not expect kids to not put it in their mouths. Companies (toy, drug, etc) are out to make a quick buck and not taking the time to test things properly over real life variables like they should. Instead they use human beings, children in this case as test subjects.