![]() ![]() Mega Brands, which bought Magnetix-maker Rose Art in July 2005, said it had to scour Rose Art's archives to find the information the CPSC was seeking. After the CPSC expanded the recall of Magnetix in April to cover another 4 million boxes, Mega Brands immediately violated the terms of the recall - relabeling older boxes to suggest they weren't the recalled versions and rewriting recall posters for stores in ways that strayed from the agreed-upon message, the CSPC told Durbin. In the case of Magnetix, the CPSC told Durbin that Mega Brands either didn't promptly report injuries and complaints about magnets coming loose or gave the agency incomplete information. "Consumers were not warned, and many of these products stayed on the shelves far longer than they should have," Durbin said. They vowed to introduce laws that would empower the agency to recall products promptly when companies refuse to do so voluntarily. As a result, the CPSC negotiates every word of a recall alert with the maker of the defective product - a process Durbin and Rush called absurd. Usually the agency tries to persuade manufacturers to recall products voluntarily. The CPSC has to go through a lengthy court process to force a recall. repeatedly fought the government's attempts to recall the toy, issued a tardy response to a safety commission subpoena and violated the terms of the recall agreement when it was finally struck, the Tribune has learned. The two Magnetix recalls that followed the toddler's death were so confusing that consumers and retailers couldn't tell which versions of the toy were potentially deadly.ĭurbin's subsequent investigation found that Magnetix maker Mega Brands Inc. ![]() When swallowed, the aspirin-size magnets can rip through a child's intestines like a gunshot. Consumer Product Safety Commission more power to recall dangerous children's products after a Senate field hearing in Chicago scrutinized the agency's sluggish response to warnings about a deadly toy.Ī Tribune investigation, which prompted the hearing, last month uncovered red flags the federal safety agency missed about popular Magnetix toys shedding dangerous magnets - warnings that presaged the death of a suburban Seattle toddler and the serious intestinal injuries of more than two dozen other children. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) on Monday vowed to introduce laws to give the U.S. ![]()
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