bindeez...toxic...warning

[israel]

Here is Australia...the childrens craft/game of bindeeze...has been withdrawn from the shelves....It is a childrens pack of small beads, that when wet join together to create a picture or pattern...
You may or may not have them in the UK.
It has been discovered that the little beads if swallowed by children acts like the drug GHB!!!

In John Lewis yesterday spoke to a shop assistant on Toy section. Apparantly the bindeez have been taken off the shelves as they are being tested for toxicity (GHB i believe) so this isnt a scare linked to other countrys only.

bumping this for anyone with bindeez

israel , I wasnt thinking it funny at all

I just meant that I would wait until I heard something here and on the news etc

Other people made much more of a joke about it joke out of it being a sedative etc etc, I dont think my post really came across that I thought it was funny that a child was ill

I'm hearing anecdotally of the sudden death of a tot in Switzerland potentially being linked to ingesting these.

liz

DH had heard that somebody had died due to these

WTF is going off with childrens toys, there seems to be an end-less pull of toys from the shelves - do I notice more because I am a parent now, or are standards getting worse?

..........are these beads still being sold in the uk?...Have there been any children who have fallen ill...due to them?