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On the recordJune 18, 2007
Now, in terms of the knockoff products which look even more dangerous than the Magnetix products, now that we have established--and I won't ask you to get into our 6(b) problems again--that this is a dangerous product that needed to be recalled because of these tiny magnets, and knockoffs have been produced with different names from different companies with the same tiny magnets, is there a reason why those knockoff products have not also been recalled?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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congress.gov
Jun 18, 2007

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Durbin questions the lack of recall for dangerous knockoff products.

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