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 ...

They sure don't make toys like they used to. Of course, some of those classic toys were also discontinued for being too ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Toy maker MEGA Brands has recalled about 2.4 million magnetic toys due to a choking hazard, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said Monday. The CPSC said small magnets ...

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 ...

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 ...