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Magnetic ‘Goody King’ toys recalled over ingestion hazard after two children receive surgery

CHICAGO (AP) -- About 213,500 "Goody King" magnetic building toys were recalled in the U.S. on Thursday, due to an ingestion hazard posed that has resulted in at least two children receiving surgeries.

According to a notice published by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, these toys' building cubes can break or open, allowing the magnets inside to become loose. That poses a serious ingestion hazard for children.

When high-powered magnets are swallowed, they can attract each other or other metal and become lodged in the digestive system, the CPSC warns -- which can potentially lead to "perforations, twisting, and/or blockage of the intestines, blood poisoning and death."