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Episode: Amazon, Target and more will stop selling water beads marketed to kids due to rising safety concerns
Description: Three major retailers β Amazon, Target and Walmart β say they're suspending sales of water-bead products marketed to young children due to growing safety concerns.
Water beads are small, colorful balls made of superabsorbent polymers. They are often sold as toys, including in craft activity kits, and as sensory tools for children with developmental disabilities. But warnings about the dangers of the beads being ingested have been piling up.
βWhen (water beads) absorb water, they can swell to many times their size,β said Dr. Joshua King, medical director of the Maryland Poison Center. βAnd while most even still pass through the gut without tr...