{"id":67,"date":"2007-11-09T14:55:51","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T14:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/11\/09\/date-rape-drug-from-toys\/"},"modified":"2007-11-09T14:55:51","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T14:55:51","slug":"date-rape-drug-from-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/09\/date-rape-drug-from-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Date Rape Drug from Toys?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese made toys, now under recall, contain a substance that metabolizes into gamma hydroxy butyrate, the &#8220;date rape&#8221; drug.  There is apparently enough of the substance to actually drug kids who ingest the toys.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A young boy in the U.S. state of Arkansas is believed to be the latest child to fall ill after ingesting a popular, Chinese-made toy containing a chemical that turns into a powerful &#8220;date rape&#8221; drug when eaten.Shelby Esses said Thursday that her 20-month-old son Jacob fell and went limp after getting into his older sister&#8217;s Aqua Dots set, which was recalled Wednesday by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. It was the latest Chinese-made toy pulled from shelves in North America.&#8221;That&#8217;s when we knew what he had eaten and that things were pretty bad,&#8221; she told ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Good Morning America&#8221; television news and talk program<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2007\/11\/08\/america\/NA-GEN-US-Toys-Date-Rape-Drug.php\">[source]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"float: right; padding: 5px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-24fac7d265b4c6639e2dfc003d0b483d-aquadots.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-24fac7d265b4c6639e2dfc003d0b483d-aquadots.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/span>The toys are called Aqua Dots, distributed by Moose Enterprises of Australia.  They are beads that meant to be arranged into a pattern then fused with the mere application of water.Bindeez Toys (a brand of Moose Enterprise) has a full recall in process.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mooseworld.com.au\/content\/Bindeez2\/home.aspx\">The information on the Australian recall is here.<\/a>  Australian officials yanked the toys off the shelves after two or three children were hospitalized.  Internationally and in the US, Toys &#8216;R Us have also pulled the product.Meanwhile, back in Arkansas where Jacob had fallen ill:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dr. Matt Jaeger, of Arkansas Children&#8217;s Hospital, treated Jacob and said he was very worried when he saw him.&#8221;It was pretty dramatic,&#8221; he told ABC. &#8220;He was unconscious in this coma for about six hours. And then over the course of just a few minutes, went from being completely asleep to wide awake and playing like nothing ever happened.&#8221;Meanwhile, toy sets seized in Hong Kong were being tested Thursday, a customs official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of policy. If the tests come back positive for the chemical, suppliers in Hong Kong could face a year in jail and fines of $12,877 (\u00e2?\u00ac8,746.77), she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese made toys, now under recall, contain a substance that metabolizes into gamma hydroxy butyrate, the &#8220;date rape&#8221; drug. There is apparently enough of the substance to actually drug kids who ingest the toys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-15","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}