Bindeez (also marketed as Aqua Dots,[1] Beados,[2] PixOs,[3] and Aquabeads) are a children's toy, consisting of small coloured plastic beads that can be arranged in designs created by Canadian toy company Spin Master.
In 2007, Bindeez was subject to a multi-national product recall after it was found that the Wangqi Product Factory in Shenzhen, China had, in some shipped toys, used a cheap chemical that was a pharmacologically active sedative prodrug instead of the safer chemical specified by the designers, resulting in the illness and hospitalization of some children who ingested the beads.[4] Since then, safer replacements have been marketed.
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- ^ "Beados Beads!!". Moose Beados Site. Archived from the original on 20 July 2008. Retrieved 23 March 2008.
- ^ "PixOs!". 29 December 2010. Archived from the original on 29 December 2010.
- ^ "China reveals producer name of toxic bead toy -- china.org.cn". www.china.org.cn. Archived from the original on 7 July 2024. Retrieved 7 July 2024.