I suppose anything that creates a space has the potential for drug smugglers to put drugs into.(including the body) Within the past couple of weeks I believe I read that someone had a cast put on their leg with drugs inside.

You're kidding. Kinder Eggs?

Nope. Nothing to do with drugs or smuggling. Kinder Eggs are actually banned by the FDA and therefore illegal to bring in to the US. The toy inside is considered a choking hazard.

Mendalla

Whe I was in Ontraio, one of the two routes back from Winnipeg was to take a highway that sliced through Minnesota.  On that route you were in the US for a total of an hour.  A friend of ours did some Easter Bunny shopping while in Winnipeg and then learned at the border that they had to leave the eggs behind.

Are they not sold in the states?

No,they are not sold in the U.S.

I never heard of them until moving to Canada.

There are many things not allowed into the U.S.

Not if the FDA has banned them. That seems to be the case from this article.

EDIT: Ninja'd by SG.

Mendalla

No meat products, not even boullion or powdered soup mix

No haggis, selling lungs is forbidden in the US

No flavoured cigarettes (except menthol)

Then there are those embargo countries...no Cuban cigars and no blank cd's from Iran, Burma/Myanmar, Sudan......

Kinder eggs - BAD - not for sale

Guns - GOOD - widely sold!

Is there anything disturbing to this picture??

I remeber Rosie Odonnel on her old show, before she became political praising kinder surprise, and how delightful they were and wondering why they were not allowed in the USA. It was soon after she went on a campaign against guns. So when evr i see Kinder eggs i think of it as the befining of Rosie's change from being a light talk show host to a political one.

I double

(Humour alert)

carolla, it's simple,  it is a lot harder to choke on a gun

Don't Kinder Eggs just help contribute to cleaning up the gene pool a little bit?  If someone can't figure out not to eat the toy inside do we really want them to breed?

Sigh. Too bad the FDA isn't responsible for gun control, eh? I mean, most bullets are small enough to lodge in someone's windpipe.

Mendalla

The toys in kinder eggs are always encased in a plastic container that is way too large to be choked on. So, what I want to know is, who takes the toy out of that container and then puts it in their mouth???

I suddenly have an urge to go out and get myself a kinder egg!

somegal,

choking hazard warnings are generally aimed at the very young (and/or those with swaollowing difficulty although those aren't generally linked to small toys).  Once the toy is out of the egg a young child almost certainly will put it in the mouth.

Of course the logical answer is to warn that the toy is not suitable for young children and expect parents to be reasonable--or you could assume parents are incompetent and ban them altogether.

It seems to me, then, that it is  - as you said - a parenting issue. If a child is that young, then it seems that keeping these products out of their reach would be a simple solution - lol!

They are an inedible product totally encased in an edible product.

I read an article on how much money the Kinder company has spent on trying to get them into the US.  They lost each challenge.

This is not the first time.  A woman had a real issue about one egg that had rolled under her seat.

I do tell my friends in the US that we consider it Darwin's theory working if someone were to actually bite in and choke on the egg...sigh.  They love them -- the best treats every for my coworkers.

*chuckle*

I had another "I'm on Mars" moment when I found out that there are FDA agents WITH GUNS.

I can just imagine them bursting into a Pharmacy, all Elliot Ness like "PUT THAT ASPIRIN DOWN, PUNK!" to some old lady ;3

governments & corporations are crazy...

I heard the issue was a non-food without a function being placed within a food.  Does that mean that chocolate covered bullets would be legal in the US?

I agree that bullets are a choking hazard and think the US government should ban them before someone tries to make a meal out of them!

Another 'funny' item - a friend just returned from a long trip by plane.  Upon emptying out her purse this afternoon she discovered that 'someone' had checked it out in Customs (or wherever this stuff goes on).  She found a tampon that had been completely stripped of its protective covering and placed back in her purse.  All it was fit for after that was the garbage!!