Aquadots still appearing in sales fliers

Published: November 26, 2007, 4:30 am

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Filed under: Media, Monitoring your kids, Stores and shopping, Marketing to kids, Brands, Recalls, Indoor PlayRecall-savvy adults did a double take this past weekend when looking through sales fliers for Target and Toys R Us. The retailers both offered sale prices on Aquadots, the plastic beaded toy that can cause death or a coma if swallowed. Neither of the stores actually still have the toy which was recalled three weeks ago after the discovery that they were coated with an industrial chemical that metabolizes into the "date-rape" drug gamma hydroxy butyrate when ingested. A spokesperson for Target explained that the snafu occurred because the flier "was so far into production that we couldn't impact it when we heard about the recall." Target ran an ad in the front section of major newspapers stating the toy was no longer available. Because fliers are printed far in advance, ads for the toy could continue to appear in newspapers for the next couple of weeks but Aquadots have

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