Popular Children’s Toy Coated With Chemical That Converts To Date Rape Drug
November 12, 2007
Kids love Aqua Dots, a popular craft kit which tops the Christmas list of many children. In Australia, Aqua Dots are sold under the brand name of Bindeez and, in fact, Australia named Bindeez as the country’s “Toy of the Year.” But with just a few weeks before Christmas, you will unfortunately have to tell your kids that this toy product has to be moved from their “Christmas list” and put on the “dangerous toys” list. That is because the beads (which look like candy) in Aqua Dots and Bindeez have been found to have a coating which contains a toxic chemical that turns to GHB … better known as the date rape drug … thus resulting in the most recent recall of Chinese made toys.
In early October, a two-year-old boy in Sydney, Australia, was admitted to a hospital after suffering seizurelike spasms and falling into a coma. A biochemical geneticist, Dr. Kevin Carpenter, discovered traces of GHB in the boy’s urine. After Dr. Carpenter learned that the boy had swallowed Bindeez beads and then vomited them before going into a coma, he began a four-week investigation on the toy product. In his research, he found that the beads contained an industrial chemical which breaks down in the body and becomes GHB.
Following Dr. Carpenter’s research, his hospital sent out a warning to poison control centers around Australia. The next day, a mother living near the hospital brought her 10-year-old daughter to the hospital after finding her daughter first motionless and then vomiting the beads. Late last Wednesday, the Consumer Product Safety Commission ordered a recall stating that two children had fallen seriously ill after eating Aqua Dots. Since then, two children in the U.S. and another in Australia have fallen ill from the beads.
GHB is a highly dangerous drug. The U.S. places GHB in the same category as heroin. When children swallow the beads which contain GHB, they can become comatose, have seizures, and develop respiratory depression, as did both children mentioned above. If you have these products in your home, you should immediately take them away from your children and contact the distributor of the product, Spin Master, which is offering a free replacement of beads (hopefully safe ones) or a toy of equal value. Our suggestion … go for a toy that doesn’t look like candy.
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The title of this blog is technically incorrect. The toy is not coated with GHB. It is coated with a chemical that breaks down into GHB as stated in your article. This sort of reporting simply promotes scientific illiteracy as the title of the blog is the first thing people read and most likely remember.
Thanks, Zytheran. You are right. I missed that error and have corrected it. Thanks for pointing it out.