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Over 263,000 Glitter-Filled iPhone Cases Recalled Over Skin Irritation Risk

posted by FatPhil on Thursday August 03 2017, @01:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the owwwww-shiny dept.

takyon writes:

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a recall of glitter and liquid-filled iPhone cases made by MixBin Electronics. The "safe food grade snow globe liquid" inside can leak out when the case is damaged, and led to 24 reports of skin irritation or chemical burns, 19 of which were in the U.S.:

You may want to pay attention if you recently purchased a glitter-filled iPhone case. MixBin Electronics, a third-party accessories manufacturer, has issued a recall for iPhone cases that it produced for several top brands, including Victoria's Secret. The recall has been issued after reports of the glitter and liquid-filled cases causing chemical burns and skin irritation.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted a notice confirming the recall which covers iPhone 6, iPhone 6s, and iPhone 7 cases produced by MixBin.

Over 260,000 cases produced by MixBin have now been recalled. They were made for brands like Victoria's Secret, Nordstrom Rack, and Amazon.

Also at The Sacremento Bee and CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission):

One consumer reported permanent scarring from a chemical burn and another consumer reported chemical burns and swelling to her leg, face, neck, chest, upper body and hands.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Mykl on Thursday August 03 2017, @04:28AM (4 children)

    by Mykl (1112) on Thursday August 03 2017, @04:28AM (#548225)

    My question as well. Why the hell would anyone use a caustic liquid, even if they thought it would never leak? Surely water and/or vegetable oil would be cheaper?

    Or did they finally figure out a way to get rid of all of that irradiated water from Fukushima?

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Thursday August 03 2017, @04:56AM (3 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 03 2017, @04:56AM (#548231) Journal

    Why the hell would anyone use a caustic liquid, even if they thought it would never leak?

    Maybe it's shitty quality control. For example, maybe the caustic liquid was used to clean the apparatus that handles the fluid and they didn't bother to rinse it out right. Or maybe some janitor has been dumping waste cleaning supplies into this really convenient vat.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 03 2017, @07:23AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 03 2017, @07:23AM (#548254)
      I find it interesting it's allegedly "safe food grade". While there are lots of caustic/toxic stuff that people eat, normally they are sneaked in under "Generally Recognized As Safe" (GRAS - presumably because it would be politically incorrect to say that foodstuff popular for centuries is more toxic than "damn chemicals!"). New stuff like "safe food grade snow globe liquid" would presumably have to be safer in order to be legally called "safe food grade" e.g. a rabbit/rat only gets killed after eating huge amounts of it (try feeding a rodent huge amounts of those super hot chilis, coffee or even plain table salt). Whereas "new" safe food grade substances might not even kill most rats at a dose of 20g per kg, and when exposed to their eyes will cause "temporary irritation". Not burns. And anyone remember all those shampoos being tested on the eyes of rabbits? If this can cause burns it's not even going to pass the "rabbit eye shampoo test".

      tldr; someone seems to be lying about "safe food grade" and wtf are they actually using?

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday August 03 2017, @12:42PM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 03 2017, @12:42PM (#548316) Journal

        tldr; someone seems to be lying about "safe food grade" and wtf are they actually using?

        And as I noted, maybe they aren't lying, but they didn't take proper care to keep other things out of their product. Food grade chemicals mixed with the caustic lye used to clean the storage tank is not the same as food grade chemicals.

    • (Score: 1) by RedIsNotGreen on Friday August 04 2017, @12:58AM

      by RedIsNotGreen (2191) on Friday August 04 2017, @12:58AM (#548535) Homepage Journal

      I've seen these cases, and they all had warning labels saying the liquid inside may cause skin irritation, and to dispose of it if it leaks.

      They were on display at one of the top office supply stores in the U.S.

      Not sure why they were allowed on the market in the first place.