Estimated reading time: seven (7) minutes
Australia/Canberra: Cover Syndicate Pty Ltd. trading as QBD Books, a Richlands, Queensland establishment, recalls certain batch/lots of Hands Free Reading LED Book Lights from the Australian marketplace due to the reported failure to provide the required warning information concerning so-called “Button” Batteries and consequential risks of choking, laceration, burns, GI tract laceration damage, bowel obstruction and/or sepsis, all serious health and safety hazards requiring immediate medical intervention to minimize pain and suffering as well as prevent life-changing injury.
ACCC: https://rb.gy/5ein1
Direct link: https://www.productsafety.gov.au/recalls/qbd-books-%E2%80%94-hands-free-reading-book-light-black
Additional information:
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (“ACCC”) reports the following Clip-on Book Lights are subject to this recall:
Filed under: ACCC, Burn or scald hazard, Children, Choking or asphyxiation hazard, Electronics, Home & Residential, Ingestion hazard | Tagged: ACCC, ACCC PRA number: 2023/19800, Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, batteries, battery, burns hazard, button batteries, child choking hazard, children, choking hazard, coin batteries, death hazard, Hands Free Reading LED Book Lights, infants, ingestion hazard, ingestion hazards, oral injury, QBD Books, Recalls Direct RIN: 17228-2023, Suffocation hazards | Leave a comment »