When two terrified parents unboxed a Barbie they had given them as a gift for their daughter, they were sprinkled with deadly white powder.
Missouri mother Jade Adams and her husband made a shocking discovery after purchasing the popular fashion dolls from a Midwest discount store.
Adams told FOX 4 she purchased the toy at Independence bargain retailer Cargo Largo on Saturday.
While in the car, she unhooks the barbell and the deadly powder explodes over her and her husband.
“It was like ‘poof’ in the car,” Adams told the outlet. “We were like, what is that?”
She said she was horrified to imagine what might have happened if her child had opened the doll’s packaging.
Adams went on to say that anyone “can dust it on themselves, in their house, wherever they opened it.”
“Like, it’s not just me, it’s really just the kids to me,” Adams said on WDAF.
“This is my baby, this is my last baby, it’s scary.”
Her own mother went back to the store to alert the staff, who immediately removed the product from the shelves.
“So, they loaded up a whole cart of these Barbies and took them to security and said, ‘You need to check all these Barbies,'” Adams said.
The Independence Police Department said in a statement that they were alerted to the presence of a “suspicious powdery substance in the packaging of the Barbie doll.”
Testing concluded that it was a powerful synthetic opiate.
“IPD’s investigation revealed that there was no compromise made with the Barbie dolls,” the statement said.
“Fentanyl was found taped to the inside of the back packaging of the dolls.”
Authorities worked with the store to determine that five compromised units were sold.
Police said they were able to locate and recover all five packages later the same day.
“There is no reason to believe that the compromised units were shipped to other retailers and no injuries have been reported,” police said.
The Barbies were reportedly sold between March 19 and March 20.
Mattel has been contacted for comment.
