{"id":78,"date":"2007-11-08T22:56:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T03:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kim.thewei.com\/20071108\/aqua-dots-kids-toy-putting-kids-in-coma\/"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:15:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:15:32","slug":"kids-toy-putting-kids-in-coma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/kids-toy-putting-kids-in-coma\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids&#8217; toy putting kids in coma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aqua-dots, which were supposed to be the latest and greatest kid toy, are putting kids in coma and their lives at risk.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The toys were supposed to be made using 1,5-pentanediol, a nontoxic compound found in glue, but instead contained the harmful 1,4-butanediol, which is widely used in cleaners and plastics.<br \/>\n \u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Food and Drug Administration in 1999 declared the chemical a Class I Health Hazard, meaning it can cause life-threatening harm.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nBoth chemicals are manufactured in China and elsewhere, including by major multinational companies, and are also marketed over the Internet. \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear why 1,4-butanediol was substituted, though there is a significant price difference. The Chinese online trading platform ChemNet China lists the price of 1,4-butanediol at between about $1,350-$2,800 per metric ton, while the price for 1,5-pentanediol is about $9,700 per metric ton.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jump to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcmoney.co.uk\/news\/082007161667.htm\">full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aqua-dots, which were supposed to be the latest and greatest kid toy, are putting kids in coma and their lives at risk. The toys were supposed to be made using 1,5-pentanediol, a nontoxic compound found in glue, but instead contained the harmful 1,4-butanediol, which is widely used in cleaners and plastics. \u00c2\u00a0 The Food and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/kids-toy-putting-kids-in-coma\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kids&#8217; toy putting kids in coma&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4582,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/4582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}