Canada’s Mega Brands Inc., maker of Mega Blox and other popular playthings, agreed to pay a civil penalty of $1.1 million last week in connection with a defective toy that caused the death of a ...

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 ...

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.When the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

WILLIAM FINLEY was almost 4 years old when his grandmother gave him a Magnetix building set for Christmas in 2004. Its colorful, tiny plastic rods, with powerful micro-magnets at each end that gripped ...

SEATTLE - A Redmond family has some closure now nearly one year after their toddler died after ingesting magnets from a popular toy. Wednesday, toy manufacturer Mega Brands agreed to a $13.5 million ...

TORONTO – Health Canada is repeating its warning that toys containing small, powerful magnets are a health risk to children. The warning comes after the department received a report of a recent ...