WASHINGTON – An additional 4 million Magnetix magnetic building sets are being recalled after children swallowed the tiny magnets in them and were seriously injured, the Consumer Product Safety ...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced an expanded recall of Magnetix Magnetic Building Sets, encompassing an estimated 4 million additional units. The recall follows what the CPSC is ...

We reported recently about the Consumer Product Safety Commission's latest efforts to crack down on magnets in toys — a program that included the recall of an additional 4 million Magnetix toy sets, ...

The commission did not sweep Magnetix off store shelves. It did what the law requires: The commission first accommodated the toy’s maker, negotiating the wording of the news release meant to warn ...

The government’s and the company’s sluggish response to the dangers of Magnetix and the botched recalls that followed were the subject of a Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Tribune investigation in 2007 ...

Parents should keep away from young children a popular toy called Magnetix, a play set of magnetized building blocks, local public health officials and pediatricians warned Thursday. "The problem is ...

CHICAGO - Sharon Grigsby pleaded with the operator at the federal safety hot line. A popular new toy, Magnetix, nearly killed one of her preschoolers. Please do something, Grigsby remembers urging.

In one of the larger penalties against a toymaker, federal safety authorities fined a unit of Mega Brands Inc. $1.1 million on Tuesday for failing to report that its Magnetix construction toys were ...

Inside a gray government cubicle littered with colorful construction toys, Jonathan Midgett played with pieces from a Magnetix set, one of the year’s hottest sellers. Midgett connected and ...

More than two dozen incidents involving magnet toys have been recorded since 2003, according to the Web site of the Consumer Products Safety Commission, which has regulatory oversight of the industry.