When the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said this week that a toy called Aqua Dots could act like the date-rape drug when eaten, it put retailers on alert and scared some parents.

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In Denver on Thursday, television station KMGH was able to find several boxes of two different types of Aqua Dots kits on the shelves of a Kmart.

A supervisor at the Kmart said he had heard about the Aqua Dots recall earlier in the day, but had not received a word from his corporate supervisors asking him to remove the merchandise from the shelves.

He said he would pull the merchandise immediately.

In Houston, Pam Smith did some early Christmas shopping for her goddaughter, but she had to make a return trip to the toy store.

"This was the actual picture that I saw on the Internet," Smith told television station KPRC as she was holding an Aqua Dots toy set.

She had just learned some disturbing news about the popular toy that had been flying off the shelves.

"I said, 'Oh! I just bought some of that!' I looked up at the screen and there it was, the Aqua Dots," Smith said. "I had my receipt. I just bought it today. We can't have it."

Aqua Dots consists of beads that can be arranged on a tray, then fused together to form shapes when sprayed with water.

CPSC officials said the coating on the beads contains a chemical that can turn toxic if eaten, and that a Chinese manufacturer changed the coating.

The toy sets have been on sale in the states since April. So far, two children in the U.S. and three in Australia have been hospitalized after swallowing the beads.

CPSD officials urged parents to take the toys away from children immediately.

"It makes me feel unsafe," mother Gina Marischal said. "It makes me wonder what other toys do I have that are not safe for my kids."

"I don't want to take a chance," Smith added. "We just don't want to take a chance."

According to doctors, if a child has ingested the beads, symptoms can be very similar to an epileptic seizure or a reaction to an infection such as meningitis.