Fidget magnet ball toys recalled over loose high-powered magnets
About 9,300 Based Online Fidget Magnet Ball Toy Sets are being recalled because they contain magnets that can be swallowed by children. CPSC reports no injuries or incidents.
What this means for you
Real risk of harm even if no illness or injury has been reported yet. Stop using the product and follow the agency's guidance.
Our severity reasoning: Scored 3 under the risk-of-harm criterion: the record describes a magnet ingestion hazard to children, and states no injuries or incidents have been reported.
Plain-English summary
This CPSC recall involves Based Online Fidget Magnet Ball Toy Sets. Each set includes four textured, silicone-covered magnet balls in white, yellow, blue and purple. Each ball is about 1.24 inches in diameter. The magnet toys come in a black fabric zippered case. The record states there are no identifying marks on the magnet toys.
The magnet ball toys violate the mandatory standard for toys because they are loose high-powered magnets, posing an ingestion hazard to children. The record states that when high-powered magnets are swallowed, the ingested magnets can attract each other, or other metal objects, and become lodged in the digestive system, and that this can result in perforations, twisting and/or blockage of the intestines, blood poisoning and death.
The record lists About 9,300 units affected. They were sold Online at Amazon.com from February 2025 through October 2025 for about $6. No injuries or incidents have been reported.
Consumers should stop using the recalled magnet ball toys immediately, take them away from children and contact Based Online to receive a full refund. The record states consumers should throw the magnet ball toys away and email a photo of the disposal to the address given in the notice.
The recalled product
- Product
- Based Online Fidget Magnet Ball Toys
- Category
- Consumer Product — Toys
- Hazard
- magnet-ingestion
- childrens-product
- standard-violation
- Affected units
- 9,300
Distribution
Distributed nationwide across the United States.
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