Cake dust urgently recalled across Australia as young boy returns home after coma
Metallic cake decorating powder that left a Queensland boy potentially disabled for life has been urgently recalled as the teenager is discharged from hospital.
Fourteen-month-old Dusty, from the Gold Coast, inhaled the metallic dust and fell into a coma after finding it in his mother’s baking studio.
“[He] He became a little more unresponsive and his eyes were rolling…he couldn’t breathe properly,” said mother Katie Robinson.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said in May that the product, branded Creative Cake Decorating, may contain potentially toxic copper and zinc.
Anyone who owns one of the five colors should immediately stop using them and return them to where they were purchased for a full refund.
After paramedics were called, Dusty was taken to Queensland Children’s Hospital in Brisbane, where doctors underwent emergency surgery to remove metal covering his airways and lungs.
Robinson announced that her son returned home on Monday after three weeks of treatment.
“We are truly amazed to see so much support from loved ones and strangers. Our son is so, so loved,” she said on social media.
“We look forward to sleeping in our own bed tonight and spending some much-needed quality time as a family.
“Dusty will continue his asthma treatment and medication to help reduce the inflammation in his lungs… The important thing is that he is okay! That’s the best outcome.”
A GoFundMe set up by Robinson’s friend Rochelle Evrard to support the family has raised more than $57,000.
The colors remembered were: rose gold, fiery copper, Dior gold, platinum silver and champagne gold. The Creative Cake Decorating website says its products are made in Australia.
The full recall notice may look like this: found here.
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