Do not buy Aqua Dots for your kids!
From: Heaven or Las Vegas?
Date: Nov 8, 2007 8:56 PM
From CNN.com
[SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Australian officials ordered a highly popular Chinese-made children's toy pulled from the shelves after scientists found it contained a chemical that converts into a powerful "date rape" drug when ingested. Bindeez, which were named Australia's toy of the year, contain a chemical that converts into a "date rape" drug. Three children have been hospitalized over the past 10 days after swallowing beads from Bindeez, named Australia's toy of the year at an industry function earlier this year. The beads in the toy, sold by Australia-based Moose Enterprises, are arranged into designs and fuse together when sprayed with water. Spin Master Ltd., a Toronto-based toy company that distributes a similar line of toys for Moose Enterprises under the name Aqua Dots, said it is requesting all stores remove the product from shelves in North America. It could not immediately be learned whether Aqua Dots are made in the same factories as the Bindeez product. But in a statement, Spin Master said that "out of an abundance of caution," it stopped shipping the item and was working with the Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada. The news startled industry followers like Chris Byrne, a New York-based toy consultant, because Aqua Dots has been one of the few bright stars of the toy selling season, which, along with overall retailing, has gotten off to a sluggish start. Byrne noted that the incidents could have been isolated, and Spin Master may be erring on the side of caution.
"This is something that they could not have foreseen. This is an extremely hot toy. ... It's a little scary," Byrne said. ]
So allow me to look at this a bit. First, I can't help but notice that they downplay the fact that bengees and aquadots are the same toy with a simple name change. Second, Mr. Byrne is a master at understatements. This could have been foreseen at a means of attack on our nation and as sabotage from inside a slave nation lashing out at anyone. Plus, lets not forget the simple thought that this might happen if you just don't check quality... But, GHB in kids toys? that is NOT a quality issue. That is an issue of overall bad trade policy, bad judgment by our leadership in dealing with people who are our enemies and giving them access to our most basic needs.
I am calling on anyone who has a brain and in sick of taking hit after hit to please repost this in your blog, post this in you bullitens and pass this info on to friends.
Then, Get on the phone and call your state local and fed leaders. We must take our voice back and get the trade deals tossed out, We must raise the tarrif back to its historic levels of 45% to 60%. This will sucure our nation from this kind of attack and bring our jobs back. Before 1973 our tarrifs never dropped below 25%... now they are 2.2%. all that money the government does not get they take from you by raising your personal taxes. we are loosing 500,000 jobs a year and loosing the strength of the US $$$!!!
so, get off your but and do something before the next hit kills a swath of people across this nation.
Date: Nov 8, 2007 8:56 PM
From CNN.com
[SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Australian officials ordered a highly popular Chinese-made children's toy pulled from the shelves after scientists found it contained a chemical that converts into a powerful "date rape" drug when ingested. Bindeez, which were named Australia's toy of the year, contain a chemical that converts into a "date rape" drug. Three children have been hospitalized over the past 10 days after swallowing beads from Bindeez, named Australia's toy of the year at an industry function earlier this year. The beads in the toy, sold by Australia-based Moose Enterprises, are arranged into designs and fuse together when sprayed with water. Spin Master Ltd., a Toronto-based toy company that distributes a similar line of toys for Moose Enterprises under the name Aqua Dots, said it is requesting all stores remove the product from shelves in North America. It could not immediately be learned whether Aqua Dots are made in the same factories as the Bindeez product. But in a statement, Spin Master said that "out of an abundance of caution," it stopped shipping the item and was working with the Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada. The news startled industry followers like Chris Byrne, a New York-based toy consultant, because Aqua Dots has been one of the few bright stars of the toy selling season, which, along with overall retailing, has gotten off to a sluggish start. Byrne noted that the incidents could have been isolated, and Spin Master may be erring on the side of caution.
"This is something that they could not have foreseen. This is an extremely hot toy. ... It's a little scary," Byrne said. ]
So allow me to look at this a bit. First, I can't help but notice that they downplay the fact that bengees and aquadots are the same toy with a simple name change. Second, Mr. Byrne is a master at understatements. This could have been foreseen at a means of attack on our nation and as sabotage from inside a slave nation lashing out at anyone. Plus, lets not forget the simple thought that this might happen if you just don't check quality... But, GHB in kids toys? that is NOT a quality issue. That is an issue of overall bad trade policy, bad judgment by our leadership in dealing with people who are our enemies and giving them access to our most basic needs.
I am calling on anyone who has a brain and in sick of taking hit after hit to please repost this in your blog, post this in you bullitens and pass this info on to friends.
Then, Get on the phone and call your state local and fed leaders. We must take our voice back and get the trade deals tossed out, We must raise the tarrif back to its historic levels of 45% to 60%. This will sucure our nation from this kind of attack and bring our jobs back. Before 1973 our tarrifs never dropped below 25%... now they are 2.2%. all that money the government does not get they take from you by raising your personal taxes. we are loosing 500,000 jobs a year and loosing the strength of the US $$$!!!
so, get off your but and do something before the next hit kills a swath of people across this nation.
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