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Australia/Canberra: City Beach, a Brisbane, Queensland establishment, recalls a reported twelve (12) different Novelty Lighting products containing Button Batteries from the Australian marketplace due to suspected failure to comply with Australia’s Mandatory Standard for Button Batteries with consequential risks of choking, oral injury, internal ingestion, GI tract laceration damage, bowel obstruction/perforation and sepsis, all serious health and safety hazards requiring immediate medical intervention to minimize pain and suffering as well as prevent life-altering injury or death.
ACCC: https://tinyurl.com/4bju6vtt
Direct link: https://www.productsafety.gov.au/recalls/city-beach-%E2%80%94-various-novelty-lighting-products
Additional information:
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (“ACCC”) reports the following Novelty Lighting products are subject to this recall (in alphabetical order):
Filed under: ACCC, battery hazard, Burn or scald hazard, Electronics, Laceration hazard, Sepsis, Toys | Tagged: ACCC, ACCC PRA number: 2024/20107, Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, bowel obstruction/perforation, calculators, choking, Electronics, GI tract laceration damage, internal ingestion, Novelty Items, oral injury, Recalls Direct RIN: 18358-2024, Sepsis | Leave a comment »