The US CPSC is strictly enforcing magnetic products, about one-third of which involve children's toys!

During the peak sales season, it is believed that many sellers will sell products with magnets, and magnet-related products are also one of the "frequent customers" of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recall. Recently, the international law firm Crowell & Moring summarized and analyzed the CPSC recall of magnet products in the past 20 years. Sellers can pay more attention.

Statistics show that since 1998, CPSC has conducted at least 58 product recalls involving magnets, 56 of which occurred after 2005.

Over the years, a wide variety of products have been involved with magnets. About a third of the recalls involved children's toys, including magnetic puzzles and tic-tac-toe games, magnetic dart boards, and dolls and action figures with magnetic accessories. About 28% of the recalls were for actual magnets, both individual magnets and sets of magnets; 14% were for magnetic building sets; and the remaining magnet-related recalls were for a variety of other products, such as children's school supplies, children's clothing, children's bike helmets, science kits, dry-erase boards, travel mugs with magnetic lids, and more.

More than two-thirds of the recalls involved hazards caused by children and adolescents ingesting small magnets. Crowell & Moring said that when people swallow multiple magnets, the magnets can connect together in the human intestine and clamp a part of the body, causing intestinal obstruction, perforation, sepsis, and even death; young children can also choke if they swallow single or multiple magnets.

Other recalls are because the magnets in the products pose other risks of injury. Last year, a travel mug with a magnetic lid was recalled because the magnetic slider on the lid could pop out, posing a burn hazard to consumers. And a flashlight recall in 2006 was because the magnets in the flashlights could be strong enough to damage the implanted defibrillators of heart patients. In addition, magnet products often contain high levels of lead, which also requires recalls.

The CPSC began closely monitoring products involving magnets in 2007, and in 2014, it issued a mandatory federal safety standard for magnets or magnet groups. However, the rule was eventually overturned by a federal court and removed from federal regulations. Despite this, the CPSC continues to monitor and recall high-power magnets. Since there are no specific regulations, sellers should be extra careful when selling related products and avoid using high-power magnets.

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