At this point most of you’re familiar with the dangers of magnet ingestions in young children. If a child ingests at least two magnets they can attract each other through opposing loops of bowel and result in a perforation.
The Consumer Products Safety Commission is taking action to attempt to ban sales of buckyballs. Several major retailers like Amazon.com have already removed them from their site.
http://gizmodo.com/5929064/buckyballs-have-been-banned-by-the-feds
More recently actions been taken against a very similar product – Zen Magnets. http://gizmodo.com/5932638/us-government-wants-to-ban-zen-magnets – Interestingly enough, the makers of Zen Magnets have released a counter statement on their website. They cited trampolines, guns, bucket drownings and skateboarding as greater dangers.
