Toy beads withdrawn from sale

Nursery World, 6 December 2007

More than 500,000 sets of the popular toy beads Bindeez, made in China, have been withdrawn from sale in the UK and Ireland after a five-year-old girl in Teesside was left in a coma after coming into contact with a chemical coating on the beads. The girl has since recovered.

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