Dangerous toxic toy by Olga Hromkova

Popular toy which is well know as Bindeez in Australia and Aqua Dots in the United States became a very dangerous and toxic toy since the fact that the coat of the toy should have been made of "1,5-pentanediol, a nontoxic compound found in glue but instead contained 1,4-butanediol, a potentially harmful chemical widely used in cleaners and plastics". This toy is produced in China by Australia-based Moose Enterprises. Since this information about harmful toy came out, thousands of stores in Australia, United States and Canada uncased their shelves. There has been a fourth child hospitalized in Australia and two children in North America became ill after eating this toy. Serious danger has been spread in toy market. How can this be possible? The Associated Press the "ingredients were switched at the point of manufacture," Well, but this is not everything. Some tests found out that the chemicals found in toy is a substance which could be compared to ecstasy or GHB.The company is still investigating how could this happened, but still we have already few seriously ill children. Well, if this information and another testing will be positive, imagine the horror in parents eyes who has bought this Bindeez or Aqua Dots for their children. Moose Enterprises which is distributing these toys to 40 different countries already tried to inform clients and customers by putting on an advertisement which in informing about possible danger which could be caused by eating parts of the toy.

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by Olga Hromkova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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