Aqua Dots , “the craft toy comes with small colorful beads or dots that are coated with a non-toxic glue into shapes, and sprayed with water to fix them together.”
Spokeswoman Julie Valise urges that if your child has this toy already to take it away, or if you are planning on giving this to your child, Don’t!
The beads if they are ingested they will have the same effects as a date rape drug. The chemicals involved in the toy give off the same reaction as GHB.
Three Australian children became severely ill after they swallowed beads from the toy, sold there as “Bindeez.” The toy was named Australia’s 2007 Toy of the Year.
Australian officials said instead of using the safe chemical 1,5-pentanediol, the potentially dangerous chemical 1,4-butanediol was introduced in the manufacturing process. When ingested, 1,4-butanediol can metabolize into what is known as the date rape drug.
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