Ingestion hazard recalls

Recalls where the official CPSC hazard text identifies a risk from ingesting or swallowing a product or component, including magnets, water beads, and batteries.

300 supported household-product notices found in official CPSC data.

Recall results

New14-734Children & Toys

Magnetic Color Sorting Board

Discount School Supply

The magnet in the wand can detach and the plywood backing can crack and release small metal balls that are sandwiched between the board and a clear plastic cover. These pose choking and serious internal injury risks associated with ingestion of a magnet and metal ball. The surface paint on the metal balls contains levels of lead that exceed the federal lead paint standard.

  • Choking
  • Ingestion
  • About 3,700 units
  • 6 reports
  • Refund
New14-126Appliances

Design Ideas® and Neatlife® Rubber Ducky Magnets

The small magnets can easily detach from the product. If swallowed, magnets can link together inside a child's intestines and clamp onto body tissues, causing intestinal obstructions, perforations, sepsis and death. Internal injury from magnets can pose serious lifelong health effects.

  • Ingestion
  • About 21,700 units
  • No incidents reported
New14-056Children & Toys

Water-absorbing polymer toys

Doodlebutt, Lehigh Acres, Fla.

These soft and colorful products can be mistaken by a child for candy. When swallowed, they can expand inside a child's body and cause intestinal obstructions, resulting in severe discomfort, vomiting, dehydration and could be life threatening. Similar toys have not shown up on x-rays and needed surgery to be removed from the body.

  • Ingestion
  • About 1,500 units
  • 1 report, 1 death
  • Refund
New13-279Children & Toys

Be Amazing! Toys Water-absorbing polymer balls

The soft and colorful product can be mistaken by a child for candy. When the marble-sized toy is ingested, it can expand inside a child's body and cause intestinal obstructions, resulting in severe discomfort, vomiting, dehydration and could be life threatening. The toys do not show up on an x-ray and need surgery to be removed from the body.

  • Ingestion
  • About 26,500 units
  • 1 report
  • Refund
New13-278Children & Toys

Eco-Novelty Water-absorbing polymer beads

The hard and colorful toy can be easily mistaken for candy by a child. When the bead is ingested, it expands and can cause intestinal obstructions inside a child's body, resulting in severe discomfort, vomiting, dehydration and could be life threatening. The toys need surgery to be removed from the body. Similar toys have not shown up on x-rays.

  • Ingestion
  • About 3,500 units
  • 1 report
  • Refund
New13-254Children & Toys

Be Amazing! Toys Water-Absorbing Polymer Balls

The soft and colorful product can be easily mistaken by a child for candy. When the marble-sized toy is ingested, it can expand inside a child's body and cause intestinal obstructions, resulting in severe discomfort, vomiting, dehydration and could be life threatening. The toys do not show up on an x-ray and require surgery to be removed from the body.

  • Ingestion
  • About 14,200 units
  • 1 report
  • Refund
New13-736Children & Toys

Adobe High-Powered Magnets

When two or more magnets are swallowed, they can link together inside a child's intestines and clamp onto body tissues, causing intestinal obstructions, perforations, sepsis and death. Internal injury from magnets can pose serious lifelong health effects.

  • Ingestion
  • About 500 units
  • 80 reports
New13-732Children & Toys

Maxfield & Oberton Buckyballs high-powered magnet sets

When two or more magnets are swallowed, they can link together inside a child's intestines and clamp onto body tissues, causing intestinal obstructions, perforations, sepsis and death. Internal injury from magnets can pose serious lifelong health effects.

  • Ingestion
  • About 60 units
  • 54 reports
  • Refund
New13-731Children & Toys

Maxfield & Oberton Buckyballs high-powered magnet sets

When two or more magnets are swallowed, they can link together inside a child's intestines and clamp onto body tissues, causing intestinal obstructions, perforations, sepsis and death. Internal injury from magnets can pose serious lifelong health effects.

  • Ingestion
  • 539 units
  • 54 reports
  • Refund
New13-112Children & Toys

SCS Direct Magnet Balls® Manipulative Magnet Sets

When two or more magnets are swallowed, they can link together inside a child's intestines and clamp onto body tissues, causing intestinal obstructions, perforations, sepsis and death. Internal injury from magnets can pose serious lifelong health effects.

  • Ingestion
  • About 106,000 units
  • 80 reports
  • Refund
New13-111Children & Toys

Kringle Toys and Gifts Nanospheres Magnetic Desk Toys

If two or more magnets are swallowed, they can link together inside a child's intestines and clamp onto body tissues, causing intestinal obstructions, perforations, sepsis and death. Internal injury from magnets can pose serious lifelong health effects.

  • Ingestion
  • About 4,200 units
  • 80 reports
  • Refund
New13-071Children & Toys

Dunecraft Water Balz

When the marble-sized toy is ingested, it expands inside the body and causes a blockage in the small intestine, resulting in severe discomfort, vomiting, dehydration and could be life threatening. The toys do not show up on an x-ray and require surgery to be removed from the body.

  • Ingestion
  • About 94,700 units
  • 1 report
  • Replacement