The Magnetix line has been re-designed to make it more difficult for children to swallow components. MEGA Brands continues to offer a replacement program for all parents who have purchased a Magnetix product, even though the company has continued to release what it says are improved versions that are supposedly safer. Magnetix toy sets contained up to 250 plastic pieces and steel balls measuring a half inch in diameter. N Engl J Med 2009 360:2770June 25, 2009) Since then MEGA Brands has. In 2009, Avolio L and Martucciello G published on The New England Journal of Medicine the effects of magnetic toys ingestion in two children ('Ingested Magnets'.Luigi Avolio, M.D., and Giuseppe Martucciello, M.D. The magnets inside the plastic building pieces could fall out and be swallowed or aspirated. CPSC has received a number of reports of injuries involving children between 6 and 10 years old. One death and four serious injuries led to the recall of 3.8 million Magnetix building sets in March 2006. Warnings have been added to the products indicating that if the magnets are ingested or inhaled, attraction of magnets in the body could pose a risk of serious injury that requires immediate medical care.Īlthough the problems with the Magnetix toys were originally thought to primarily pose a risk for children under the age of six, resulting in recommendations that the product not be used by children under that age, the U.S.
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Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) at the time of the recall, swallowing the small magnets from the toys resulted in at least one death, one aspiration and 27 intestinal injuries, which resulted in emergency surgery in all but one of the cases. A Magnetix recall was issued in March 2006, and then again in April of 2007, after there were reports of at least 1,500 incidents where the magnets separated from the building pieces.Īccording to information provided by the U.S.