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In January 2016, Karly Retter of Ware, England posted the following photograph to Facebook, saying that her daughter's leg was badly burned by the contents of her leaking cell phone case, which contained glitter suspended in a gel: Retter wrote in her post (now removed): New Look, the company that distributed the phone case, said they would investigate the complaint(s) and have removed the product from their inventory. Claims of chemical burns from such phone cases is not unprecedented however: For example, in November 2015, New Zealand woman Erin Nelson reported that she, too, was burned by a mysterious liquid that leaked from her iPhone case, this one purchased from the store Forever New: This phone case, said Nelson, was a Sophia model, which also contained glitter suspended in a gel. Claimants have been coming forward with similar stories for at least a year, and all of their injuries seem to be linked to phone cases containin glitter suspended in gel, but the cases carry no warnings that they contain potentially dangerous chemicals. We reached out to the phone cases' manufacturers for comment. On 2 August 2017, news outlets reported that manufacturer MixBin Electronics recalled approximately a quarter of a million phone cases with suspended glitter after 24 reports of leakage and burns were lodged: Consumers in possession of a smartphone case with glitter suspended in liquid can visit a recall web site to learn if their item was among those recalled by MixBin Electronics.
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