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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 11/08/2007 : 00:31:08
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The popular Aqua Dots.
A Chinese-made toy is laced with a chemical that becomes a "date-rape" drug when ingested: WASHINGTON (AP) -- Millions of Chinese-made toys have been pulled from shelves in North America and Australia after scientists found they contain a chemical that converts into a powerful date rape drug when ingested. Two children in the U.S. and three in Australia were hospitalized after swallowing the beads.
With only seven weeks until Christmas, the recall is yet another blow to the toy industry -- already bruised by a slew of recalls this past summer.
In the United States, the toy goes by the name Aqua Dots, a highly popular holiday toy distributed by Toronto-based Spin Master Toys. They are called Bindeez in Australia, where they were named toy of the year at an industry function earlier this year. |
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2007 : 06:28:31 [Permalink]
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| Man, those Chinese are really out to get us! Next thing you know, they'll quit buying dollars because of the weakness caused by our government's massive overspending, and then we'll really regret not buying all this stuff! |
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
3192 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2007 : 07:10:02 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by pleco
Man, those Chinese are really out to get us! Next thing you know, they'll quit buying dollars because of the weakness caused by our government's massive overspending, and then we'll really regret not buying all this stuff!
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Too late, they did that yesterday. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 11/08/2007 : 08:22:40 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
Originally posted by pleco
Man, those Chinese are really out to get us! Next thing you know, they'll quit buying dollars because of the weakness caused by our government's massive overspending, and then we'll really regret not buying all this stuff!
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Too late, they did that yesterday.
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We are so screwed!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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chaloobi
SFN Regular
1620 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2007 : 08:46:21 [Permalink]
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My 4 and 7 year olds were begging for those after seeing a comercial on Nick. Glad I didn't get them, though it sounds like in the proper quantity they might be a good sleep aid. But how do you figure out dosage?  |
-Chaloobi
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| Edited by - chaloobi on 11/08/2007 08:47:37 |
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"Drug-tainted toys put kids in comas"
