Overstock.com High-Powered Magnet Sets recall: Ingestion Hazards
Overstock.com Recalls High-Powered Magnet Sets Due to Ingestion Hazards
Why was Overstock.com High-Powered Magnet Sets recalled?
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.
What should I do if I have this product?
Overstock.com will contact each purchasing customer directly to coordinate the recall. Consumers should stop using the recalled high-powered magnet sets immediately, take all associated individual magnets away from children and teenagers, and contact Overstock.com for a full refund. Contact: Overstock.com Inc. at e-mail [email protected] or online at www.overstock.com for more information.
What to do with a recalled product: refunds, receipts, safe disposal and how to report a problem.
Is my product affected?
Compare the item in your hand with every identifier below from the official CPSC record. Only products that match the listed product and identifiers are part of this recall.
- Product
- Buckyballs high-powered magnet sets
- Company
- Maxfield & Oberton LLC
- Quantity
- 539
- Sold at
- Overstock.com and retailers nationwide from November 2010 through July 2012 for about $20.
- Recall date
- April 15, 2013
- Incidents / injuries
- Overstock has received no reports of injuries. CPSC has received 54 reports of incidents involving children ingesting high-powered magnets resulting in 53 reports of medical intervention.
- Agency
- CPSC
Product description
This recall involves high-powered magnets sets with the brand name Buckyballs. The sets contain 216 silver-colored, spherical rare earth magnets, each about five millimeters in diameter.