We actually purchased these for my kids -- last weekend, no less. I heard about the recall on the radio during my commute home last night, and the first thing I did once I got inside the house was to take it away from them.
The toy itself *is* clever, it is just unfortunate that (what is apparently) typical lackluster Chinese quality control led to several children in the U.S. and Australia becoming violently sick and hospitalized. Fortunately none have died.
I read yesterday that the manufacturer's solution to this is to add a bitter-tasting chemical to the dots so kids are dissuaded from eating them. As if it were the dot's sublime taste that led to this problem, and not the bright candy colors.
I'm now waiting for the story about Chinese toys that explode; surely this can't be that far away.
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We actually purchased these for my kids -- last weekend, no less. I heard about the recall on the radio during my commute home last night, and the first thing I did once I got inside the house was to take it away from them.
The toy itself *is* clever, it is just unfortunate that (what is apparently) typical lackluster Chinese quality control led to several children in the U.S. and Australia becoming violently sick and hospitalized. Fortunately none have died.
I read yesterday that the manufacturer's solution to this is to add a bitter-tasting chemical to the dots so kids are dissuaded from eating them. As if it were the dot's sublime taste that led to this problem, and not the bright candy colors.
I'm now waiting for the story about Chinese toys that explode; surely this can't be that far away.