A toy that turned into a party drug

Bindeez are a children's toy, consisting of small coloured plastic beads that can be arranged in designs. 

In 2007 the popular children's toy was found to contain a chemical that the human body turns into the party drug "fantasy" when swallowed.

Australian doctors were actually the leading force behind the global Bindeez toy recall after they discovered the toy contained the potentially deadly drug compound.

Doctors who treated a two year old boy at Westmead hospital, in Sydney's west, after he ingested the toy's beads became suspicious about the quantity of Bindeez beads the boy swallowed and had them analysed.

The efforts of these Sydney doctors led to 40 countries recalling the toy previously awarded Australia's Toy of the Year in 2007!