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Date Rape Drug Chemical Toy Sets Off Scare in Australia, China Suspends Exports
The hugely popular beads, known as Aqua Dots in the United States and Bindeez in Australia, can be arranged into designs and fused together when sprayed with water.
The beads are meant to be coated in a non-toxic glue, but a batch in Australia was found to be covered with a substance that did not match the approved formula.
Tests showed they were coated with the industrial chemical 1,4-butanediol - which transforms into the banned date rape drug gamma hydroxy butyrate (GHB) when swallowed.
The compound — made from common and easily available ingredients — can induce unconsciousness, seizures, drowsiness, coma and death.
The toy has already hospitalised six children in Australia and New Zealand, with an 18-month-old New South Wales (NSW) Central Coast boy the latest to take ill after eating the beads.
On Friday, he was in a stable condition in Newcastle's John Hunter Hospital after being admitted on Thursday.
Two children in North America have also been hospitalised in a near comatose state after swallowing the beads.
About 4.2 million units of the toy will be recalled in the US, officials said, and about one million in Australia.
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11/11/2007
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