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U.S. Consumer Product Safety CommissionRecalled 2013-04-12

Six Retailers Announce Recall of Buckyballs and Buckycubes High-Powered Magnet Sets Due to Ingestion Hazard

Is my product affected?

Buckyballs and Buckycubes high-powered magnet sets

  • Brand Maxfield & Oberton LLC, of New York, N.Y.

Check against the official notice below — it lists the full affected range.

What happened

Buckyballs and Buckycubes are high-powered magnet sets imported by Maxfield & Oberton LLC of New York that contain small magnets approximately 5 millimeters in diameter. Buckyballs feature spherical magnets while Buckycubes contain cube-shaped magnets. These products have design, warning, and instruction defects that pose a substantial risk of injury and death to children and teenagers due to ingestion hazard.

Six retailers—Barnes & Noble, Bed Bath & Beyond, Brookstone, certain Hallmark retailers, Marbles the Brain Store, and ThinkGeek—have announced a recall of these products because the importer refused to participate. Consumers who purchased these products should remove all high-powered magnet sets and individual magnets from the reach of children and teenagers, then contact the retailer from which they purchased the product to obtain instructions for remedy.

Written by software from the official notice below. Not reviewed by a lawyer.

Hazard

These products contain defects in the design, warnings and instructions, which pose a substantial risk of injury and death to children and teenagers.

What should I do?

Consumers should take the high-powered magnet sets and all associated individual magnets away from children and teenagers and contact the retailer from which they purchased the product to obtain instructions for their remedy.

Details from the source

Imported by Maxfield & Oberton LLC, of New York, N.Y., Buckyballs and Buckycubes consist of sets of numerous, small, high-powered magnets. These sets vary in the number of magnets included and come in a variety of colors. Individual magnets in the set are about 5 millimeters in diameter. Individual magnets in Buckyballs are spherical and individual magnets in Buckycubes are cube-shaped. Retailers Barnes & Noble, Bed Bath & Beyond, Brookstone, certain Hallmark retailers, Marbles the Brain Store, and ThinkGeek have agreed to participate because Maxfield & Oberton has refused to participate in the recall of all Buckyballs and Buckycubes.

Source

Official record: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission ↗

Republished from the official source above; details can change — the source record controls.

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