Kinder type eggs on Amazon?

[ArielRae]

I thought that Kinder type eggs were illegal in the US unless it is Choco Treasure. Yet the Zaini brand is for sale on Amazon. Can you really have Amazon ship it to us in the US? Would you get in trouble buying it, it is Amazon after all?

 

[KaptainK]

I would be curious about this too. My 2yo daughter is obsessed with these. She watches YouTube videos of people opening them. A friend of mine coming back from Canada had her kinder eggs confascated at the border.

 

[FLmomof2]

I thought they were no longer banned in the US. I have been looking for them too! My daughter also watches the youtube videos of these and it drives me nuts!

 

[QVCshopper]

We watch the videos of the lady opening the eggs, too. It's so funny! Toy, candy, flyer, stickers! After watching the 100th egg opened, I thought it would be really easy to make my own kinder eggs... I mean, just stuff a tiny junk toy in an Easter egg with candy and maybe a sticker. Maybe it's not as exciting, though?

 

[luvmy3jewels]

As of last June they were still banned in the States. We bought several in Scotland last summer and my kids wanted to bring some back to share with their friends. After researching the consequences of trying to bring them into the US we decided that the kids should dispose of them before we arrived at the airport. (The chocolate eggs are really yummy!! Much better than most of the chocolate you buy in the US).

 

[NorCalGal]

I had no idea you weren't supposed to bring these into the US! I have purchased them for souvenirs on SEVERAL trips, and it never occurred to me that it wasn't okay. Why are they banned?

(LOL, so I know if I want to pretend I still don't know or if I want to stop doing it.)

 

[ArielRae]

From Wikipedia

United States
The 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act contains a section highlighting that a confectionery product with a non-nutritive object, partially or totally embedded within it, cannot be sold within the United States, unless the FDA issues a regulation that the non-nutritive object has functional value.[8] Essentially, the 1938 Act bans “the sale of any candy that has embedded in it a toy or trinket”.[9]

In 2012 the FDA re-issued their import alert stating “The embedded non-nutritive objects in these confectionery products may pose a public health risk as the consumer may unknowingly choke on the object”.[10]

In 1997, the staff of the CPSC, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, examined and issued a recall for some Kinder Surprise illegally brought into the US with foreign labels.[11] The staff determined that the toys within the eggs had small parts. The staff presumed that Kinder Surprise, being a chocolate product, was intended for children of all ages, including those under three years of age. On this basis, the staff took the position that Kinder Surprise was in violation of the small parts regulation and banned from importation into the US.[11]

Kinder Surprise bears warnings advising the consumer that the toy is “not suitable for children under three years, due to the presence of small parts” and that “adult supervision is recommended”.[12]

In January 2011, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) threatened a Manitoba resident with a $300 (Canadian dollars) fine for carrying one egg across the U.S. border into Minnesota.[13] In June 2012, CBP held two Seattle men for two and a half hours after discovering six Kinder Surprise eggs in their car upon returning to the U.S. from a trip to Vancouver. According to one of the men detained, a border guard quoted the potential fine as US$2,500 per egg.[14] The rationale against a ban of the product also takes the form that deaths have been too few for it to be considered a serious danger. Additionally, the argument is made that there should be a consistent standard in place, as several worse dangers are not regulated.[15]

On December 26, 2012, a petition was created on the White House website through the "We The People" campaign to end the ban on the import and sale of Kinder Surprise Eggs in the United States. However the petition failed to meet the required number of signatures by January 26, 2013 and was therefore declined.

 

[kimblebee]

It's so funny that you are acting like they are so amazing. They are no big deal here, at least in my house, but you probably feel the same way about the things we get excited about that we can't buy up here. Cheese in a can?? Yes please!! (Just kidding, that's pretty gross)

 

[klitteral2009]

I cannot believe there are other people's kids who are obsessed with these YouTube videos! My 3 year old watches them religiously...so much so that I've got my own impression of the Asian lady from the Disney Collector videos lol. I'd considered getting some for Christmas but they seem a bit pricey to me..and I had no idea they were illegal

 

[lost*in*cyberspace]

I had no idea you weren't supposed to bring these into the US! I have purchased them for souvenirs on SEVERAL trips, and it never occurred to me that it wasn't okay. Why are they banned?

(LOL, so I know if I want to pretend I still don't know or if I want to stop doing it.)

Ban explained here:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Surprise

We used to bring these back as gifts from Europe for many years with zero problems before I found out this was illegal.

 

[KaptainK]

I wonder why kids love those videos so much. I don't even know how my daughter found them on YouTube. OP, if you order some eggs on Amazon, let us know how it goes!

 

[eeyore81]

I cannot believe there are other people's kids who are obsessed with these YouTube videos! My 3 year old watches them religiously...so much so that I've got my own impression of the Asian lady from the Disney Collector videos lol. I'd considered getting some for Christmas but they seem a bit pricey to me..and I had no idea they were illegal

I'm glad to hear my 2 year old DD isn't the only one. I cannot understand why anyone would want to watch these videos but every night she gets on the computer and yells "EGGS"!!!