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On April 19, 2007, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Mega Brands expanded its “recall” of Magnetix Magnetic Building Sets, first issued in March 2006 after one child died and several others were injured from swallowing tiny magnets that had come loose from the toy’s building pieces. At the time, the CPSC and company did not remove the Magnetix toys on store shelves but offered a “replacement program” for concerned parents. This inadequate “recall” left potentially dangerous product on store shelves, even though the company had started selling a modified version of the toy with new packaging containing a warning label about the dangers of ingesting magnets.

The new recall, a full year later, finally requires stores to remove old versions of the toy from store shelves and tells parents to throw away the toy if the toy’s packaging does not contain the warning label. To date, CPSC and Mega Brands are aware of one death, one aspiration and 27 intestinal injuries from ingesting magnets from this toy. Read more about the CPSC recall by clicking here.