Walmart recalls magnetic balls over concerns children might ingest them [Video]

A science kit sold on Walmart’s website is being recalled after the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) flagged the magnetic balls comprising the kit as ingestion hazards for children.

The CPSC issued an alert saying the product, the “Relax 5mm Science Kit, Large Hematite Magnets Magnetic Stones Building Blocks,” is sold exclusively on Walmart.com through the vendor Joybuy and comes as a cube of 216 tiny colorful magnetic balls that are stronger than federal regulations permit.

No deaths have been reported from the magnets in the Relax kits, but the CPSC said it is aware of seven deaths involving the ingestion of hazardous magnets, and 2,400 magnet ingestions were treated in emergency rooms from 2017 through 2021.

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“When high-powered magnets are swallowed, the ingested magnets can attract to each other, or to another metal object, and become lodged in the digestive system,” the CPSC …