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Zen Magnets/Neoballs Magnets Recall Overview:
- Who: The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a recall of high-powered Zen Magnets and Neoballs Magnets products.
- Why: The CPSC says the magnet products are dangerous to children; two children required surgery after ingesting the magnets.
- Where: The recall applies to high-powered Zen Magnets and Neoballs Magnets sold across the United States.
About 10 million high-powered Zen Magnets and Neoballs Magnets are being recalled, after safety watchdogs say two children ingested the products and then required surgery to remove them.
The recall was issued Tuesday on the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) website.
The company is not currently facing legal action over the recall, but Top Class Actions follows recalls closely as they sometimes end in class action lawsuits
Zen Magnets and Neoballs are high-powered 5 mm spherical magnets. The CPSC says, when two or more of the high-powered magnets are swallowed, the ingested magnets can attract to each other, or to another metal object, and become lodged in the digestive system.
“This can result in perforations, twisting or blockage of the intestines, infection, blood poisoning, and death,” the commission says. “Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled magnets and contact Zen Magnets LLC for a refund.”
The commission says Zen Magnets is aware of two children who ingested the magnets and required surgery to remove the magnets and parts of their intestines and bowels.
The commission says it’s also aware of other reports of children and teenagers ingesting other high-powered magnets and requiring medical attention.
“A 19-month-girl died after ingesting similar high-powered magnets,” it says in the recall.
The recall is for about 10 million magnets, sold individually and in magnet sets both online at Neoballs.com and ZenMagnets.com and certain Colorado retailers listed here from Jan. 2009.
In response to the recall, Zen Magnets issued a statement on its website saying that it had been the “leading voice of the majority of consumers who believe that adults should be able to purchase recreational high powered magnets, in the CPSC’s continual and uncompromising War on Magnets.”
“While the median age of our users was 34 years, we fought hard for the middle ground where recreational magnets could be used, sold, and labeled safely, rather than a nationwide all-ages prohibition that the CPSC seeks of our magnets.”
A similar product was recalled in Canada last year. According to the Canadian safety authority, Stucky Balls Powerful Rare Earth Magnet Sets were recalled as the magnets are reportedly dangerous to children.
That recall was also due to the possibility of children swallowing or inhaling the magnets, with the authority stating that if the magnets are ingested, they can magnetize together and create a blockage that can cause perforations in the intestinal walls.
What do you think of this recall? Let us know in the comments!
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9 thoughts onRecall Alert: Millions of High-Powered Magnets Recalled Due to Kids Needing Surgery After Ingesting Them
My 8yr old had to have surgery for swallowing these in her sleep, have no idea how she did it but had to have surgery and lost 6in of her bowel
There are other magnet companies still selling these on amazon. I know because my son just went through this and required surgery. Why just these companies—it should be all!!!
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If your kid puts everything in their mouth, maybe you get one of those plastic bubbles and take accountability.
Great to know that as a parent who has these magnets at home, that if I leave them out and my child swallows one, I can blame someone else and be compensated for it. Gotta love attorneys.
Those magnetic balls have wrecked my vacuums. Thank God my child is old enough to know better to but them in her mouth if do one on vacuums let me know