Just when the list of recalled toys seems like it couldn’t get any longer, or any more worrisome, comes news that one popular item — Aqua Dots — is actually coated in a substance can make children vomit and render them comatose.

Scientists have found the popular toy’s coating contains a chemical that, once metabolized, converts into the toxic “date rape” drug GHB, or gamma-hydroxy butyrate, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission spokesman Scott Wolfson told CNN.

“GHB is this drug that in low doses actually causes euphoria,” said Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent. “In higher doses, it can cause people to go into a coma. It can cause seizures. It can cause something known as hypotonia, where all your muscles just become very flaccid.

“And it can cause people to become amnestic, … which is why it became a date-rape drug,” Gupta said.

“So this is nasty stuff, and it appears that the chemical is actually converting into it in the body.”

Aqua Dots have been sold in the U.S. since April and had recently made Wal-Mart’s list of “Top 12 Toys”. They are sold in Australia as Bindeez Beads.

Parents are advised to throw the toys out immediately.

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