Toy Recall Of Mans Trading Company

The recent Toy Recall that is done by The Consumer Product Safety Commission of United States had been applicable to the toys sold by Mans Trading Company based in Brisbane of California. The toys are imported from China and contain magnets with the name Super Magnet. It has been viewed that the magnets attached to the toys are too powerful to cause an injury to the intestine of the kids in it is swallowed.

The Toy Recall is applicable to those toys looking like small pandas in which the magnet attached at the bottom are likely to detach to be swallowed by there kid playing with it. Though no report of any kind of injury has been reported till now, the toys have been termed among some of the moist dangerous toys in the market.

There had been several Toy Recall that were aimed to the magnetic toys before. In the year of 2006, Magnetix Building Sets were the first to be recalled from the market among the magnetic toys. That time, the recall was initiated as the after impact of the death of a toddler who swallowed the magnet detached from its casing. The magnets that were used in Magnetrix sets are the high energy neodymium iron boron magnets. These magnets are generally used in several magnetic toy sets.

The Toy Recall includes the magnetic toys that are attached with these kinds of magnets for these sets are really very dangerous for the toddlers. In case a child swallows more than one magnet of this kind, the magnets get attracted to each other inside the intestinal tract. As a result, the magnets get clumped making the intestine of the toddler twist. This results intestinal blockage and bowel perforation that leads a toddler towards death.

In the year of 2006, the Toy Recall was applicable to all the other magnetic toys including Magnetix after the report of thirty four injuries including one death. During that year, Mattel issued a recall of more than eighteen million magnetic toys from the market. The toys were part of several popular lines like Polly Pockets as well as Batman.

Following the Toy Recall of the magnetic toys, the companies started redesigning their toys. The toys that consisted with magnet were kept partially embedded so that the magnets are not easily detached. Apart from embedding the magnets in plastic a cap is added to the dangerous places so that the parts are barred from escaping. Archives