The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission or CPSC, together with six retailers said it is voluntarily recalling all Buckyballs and Buckycubes high-powered magnet sets sold by these companies as it continues to warn of the design, warning and instructions pertaining to the product being lethal to children and teenagers. CPSC said it has received 54 reports of children and teens ingesting this product, with 53 of these requiring medical interventions.
Retailers participating in the recall include Barnes & Noble Inc., Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., Brookstone, participating Hallmark retailers, Marbles the Brain Store, and ThinkGeek.
The products were imported by Maxfield & Oberton LLC, of New York, N.Y., which has reportedly declined to participate in the recall of all Buckyballs and Buckycubes. The CPSC said it had lodged a complaint against the company in July last year after discussions with its representatives failed to result in a voluntary recall which the CPSC staff deemed imperative to address the health hazard posed by these products.
Buckyballs and Buckycubes consist of sets of numerous, small, high-powered magnets. These sets vary in the number of magnets included and come in a variety of colors. Individual magnets in the set are about 5 millimeters in diameter. About 3 million of these product sets have been reportedly sold since 2010.
The CPSC said it is still interested in receiving incident or injury reports that are either directly related to this product recall or involve a different hazard with the same product.
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