A child needed emergency surgery to remove roughly 50 swallowed magnets and repair holes torn through the small intestine after ingesting pieces from a Girigi-brand magnetic building block set, prompting the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to warn parents directly on August 28, 2026, after the toy’s seller refused to agree to a recall.
The sets, sold on Amazon in 40- and 48-piece configurations for $10 to $16, are listed under a Chinese third-party seller identified as mushanjiaju(dongguanshi)youxiangongsi, according to reporting on the CPSC warning. Because the magnets are stronger than federal safety standards allow, swallowed pieces can pull toward each other through intestinal walls, cutting off blood flow and causing perforation, twisting, blockage, or blood poisoning.
Key Points
- A child swallowed an estimated 50 magnets from the set and required surgery to remove them and repair intestinal damage.
- The toy is sold under the Girigi brand in sets of 40 or 48 pieces, listed under Amazon SKUs X004AM7035, X004880TWP, X003V5TN1J, and X0047RSJ6P.
- The importer/seller has not agreed to an acceptable recall, so CPSC bypassed the normal recall process and issued a direct public warning instead.
- No refund program currently exists for households that own the sets.
What Consumers Should Do
- Stop use immediately. Take the blocks away from children right away, even if no problem has occurred yet.
- Do not resell or donate the sets. CPSC has stressed that passing along a recalled or unsafe magnet toy only shifts the hazard to another family’s child.
- Dispose of the pieces in a way that keeps them out of reach of children, rather than storing them in a toy bin or donation pile.
- Watch for symptoms such as abdominal pain, vomiting, fever, or decreased appetite in any child who may have had access to the toy, and seek emergency care immediately — magnet ingestion can look like a stomach bug before it becomes life-threatening.
High-powered magnet sets have been a recurring target of federal safety action for nearly two decades. CPSC’s own magnet safety education materials note that ingested magnets are uniquely dangerous compared with other swallowed objects because they can attract each other across loops of intestine, squeezing tissue between them until it dies. The agency has separately gone public this year over other loose-magnet toys sold through online marketplaces, including a November 2025 warning about a Shein-sold building set from a different importer that also refused to cooperate — a pattern regulators say reflects how hard it has become to hold offshore, marketplace-only sellers accountable once a product has already reached American homes.
