Wednesday - November 07, 2007

Aren't We Glad We Transfered the Toy Industry to China? 

This is almost unbelieveable. Tiny beads from an arts and craft toy, which are made in China, if ingested, metabolize into the equivalent of a date rate drug. 

What a strategy. The great captains of industry sell the American people down the river to a third world communist regime. And what do we get out of it? Mothballed industries, people without jobs, and toys that turn into a date rate drug.

Millions of Chinese-made toys have been pulled from shelves in North America and Australia after scientists found they contain a chemical that converts into a powerful date rape drug when ingested. Two children in the U.S. and three in Australia were hospitalized after swallowing the beads.

With only seven weeks until Christmas, the recall is yet another blow to the toy industry _ already bruised by a slew of recalls this past summer.

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In the United States, the toy goes by the name Aqua Dots, a highly popular holiday toy distributed by Toronto-based Spin Master Toys. They are called Bindeez in Australia, where they were named toy of the year at an industry function earlier this year.

It could not immediately be learned whether Aqua Dots beads are made in the same factories as the Bindeez product. Both are sold by Australia-based Moose Enterprises.

The toy beads are sold in general merchandise stores and over the Internet for use in arts and crafts projects. They can be arranged into designs and fused together when sprayed with water.

Scientists say a chemical coating on the beads, when ingested, metabolizes into the so-called date rape drug gamma hydroxy butyrate. When eaten, the compound _ made from common and easily available ingredients _ can induce unconsciousness, seizures, drowsiness, coma and death.  Read more....

Author: The Machiavellian
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