21 Million Miniverse Toy Sets Recalled Over Potentially Hazardous Resins

Recalled Miniverse Make It Mini Sets—Make It Mini – Food. Consumer Product Safety Commission

More than 21 million sets of a popular children’s toy made by California manufacturer MGA Entertainment are being recalled due to potentially hazardous resins, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said on June 25.

According to a notice from the CPSC, the recall involves Miniverse “Make It Mini Sets” with unused liquid resins.

These sets include “Make It Mini Appliances,” all models and series of “Make It Mini Food,” and “Make It Mini Lifestyle.”

The recalled sets, which were initially manufactured in China, “contain resins that, when liquid, can cause skin, eye, and respiratory irritation or sensitization when inhaled, touched, or ingested by children or adults,” the CPSC said. The resin contains hydroxyethyl methacrylate and isobornyl acrylate in amounts prohibited in children’s products by the Federal Hazardous Substances Act.

“After the resins cure, they no longer present this hazard,” the CPSC said.

Most of the sets impacted by the recall consist of a sphere with the materials needed to assemble miniature “appliance,” “food,” or “lifestyle” items.

The resin packaging in each set “may imitate food items such as a peanut butter jar, maple syrup, milk container, etc.,” and the resins, when hardened, imitate food, according to the CPSC notice.

They can be easily identified by their item numbers and the UPC codes, which are printed on the back side of the wrapper the sets are packaged in.

Skin Burns, Respiratory Irritation Reported

A full list of the recalled sets can be found here.

Approximately 21 million of the sets are being recalled throughout the United States, and 1 million in Canada.

MGA Entertainment, based in Chatsworth, California, has so far received 26 reports of incidents related to the recalled products from children and adults, including reports of skin burns and respiratory irritation.

In one case, a consumer’s asthma was triggered, according to the CPSC notice. The company did not state exactly when the safety issue was first discovered.

The items subject to the recall were sold at stores nationwide, including Target, Walmart, Family Dollar, Dollar General, ALDI, and Hobby Lobby, and also online at Amazon.com, shop.mgae.com, and other sites from October 2022 through June 2024.

They retailed at between $7 and $13 for individual sets and $14 to $52 for sets sold in a box, depending on the model.

MGA Entertainment, which also makes Bratz and Little Tikes, is asking consumers who purchased the recalled items to immediately stop using any with unused resins.

Customers are also being asked to contact MGA Entertainment to receive a pre-paid label to return either the entire product—including the unused resin—if it has not been opened, or the unused resins in order to receive a full refund or replacement product.

Consumers need to share a photograph of the product if the product has been opened.

The Epoch Times has contacted a spokesperson for MGA Entertainment for further comment.