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Danger drug found in Christmas toy - Telegraph

Tags: australia, beads, china, christmas, contaminated, date-rape, drug, ghb, imports, terrorism, toys, woolworths on 2007-11-07 -All Annotations (0) -About

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- A popular toy has been withdrawn from shops because of fears it may contain a potentially lethal hallucinogenic drug.
- Bindeez, which allows young children to make animals and other shapes from beads, were predicted to be a popular present this Christmas.
- Retailers, including Woolworths and Argos, withdrew the sets after Moose Entertainment, an Australian company that designed the product, admitted that a "small number" of children in Australia needed treatment after swallowing the beads.
- The beads, which are made in China, are supposed to be coated with a harmless glue to allow them to stick together.
- Health authorities in New South Wales found they were covered in a chemical which, if swallowed, changes into a compound similar to GHB, a "date rape" drug.
- The reaction can cause seizures and unconsciousness.
- A boy aged two and a 10-year-old girl were admitted to a hospital in Sydney last week after swallowing the beads.
- Richard King, the chairman of Character, which distributes Bindeez in Britain, said: "We've asked all our customers to take them off the shelf while we retest everything to make sure the toys comply with all regulations."
- The Toy Retailers Association named Bindeez as one of their top toys for Christmas. Gary Grant, its chairman, said: "They have been selling very well in recent weeks."
- Character said it would take about four days to retest the products and no retailer could sell them until it received the results from the laboratory.

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