We Will Fight Until The End
The actual complaint (<a href="http://zenmagnets.com/images/Complaint%20Counsel%27s%20Second%20Amended%20Complaint.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://zenmagnets.com/images/Complaint%20Counsel%27s%20Secon...</a>) indicates that this company includes with some of its products a printed warning reading, in part,<p><i>> Strong magnets can cause fatal intestinal pinching. Place swallowing magnets on your don't do list along with breathing water, drinking poison, and running into traffic.</i><p>If the safety level of your product can be reasonably compared to drowning, being poisoned, or getting hit by a truck, you probably shouldn't be surprised when the product-safety people show an interest in it.<p>Moreover, of the three things the warning compares their product to, only one -- poison -- is an example of an actual product you can buy (nobody's selling home drowning kits), and that one only gets by with a warning in cases where it has a substantial beneficial use. Bleach, for instance, is sold with a warning label, but that's because bleach has substantial benefits as a cleaner of clothes and surfaces. Those benefits provide an argument that they outweigh the  risk it poses if swallowed.<p>What are the practical, non-entertainment benefits of magnet balls? If there aren't any -- if they're a toy, a novelty -- it seems completely fair to hold them to a higher standard. A toy is the definition of a non-essential product. So if your toy carries a risk of killing somebody, well, there's plenty of other toys out there that don't.