On Thursday, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled 4,200 units of Relax magnetic balls due to a series of incidents connected to the toys.
The magnetic balls, which are exclusively sold online by Walmart, are reportedly powerful enough to become lodged in the human digestive system.
The commission reportedly “estimates 2,400 magnet ingestions were treated in hospital emergency departments from 2017 through 2021.”
Likewise, the commission noted its knowledge of “seven deaths involving the ingestion of hazardous magnets, including two outside of the United States.”
