Mega Brands, the company that made Magnetix building sets, has agreed to pay a $1.1 million civil penalty to settle claims that the company failed to give the government timely information about the ...

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, ...

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 ...

Editor's note: Sally Connolly of Danvers, who has written in earlier columns about the Magnetix toys and the hazards they can pose to young children, sent along this notice from the U.S. Consumer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An undermanned agency moves slowly to deal with reports of death and injuries. Sharon Grigsby pleaded with the operator at the federal safety hot line. A popular new toy, Magnetix, had nearly killed ...