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Australia/Canberra: Screenlink Pty Ltd., an Osborne Park, Western Australia establishment, recalls certain batch/lots of Maxell CR-1616 Micro Lithium Batteries from the Australian marketplace due to the reported failure to comply with Australia’s mandatory standard for button/coin 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://buff.ly/47R2mrA
Direct link: https://www.productsafety.gov.au/recalls/screenlink-pty-ltd-%E2%80%94-maxell-cr-1616-micro-lithium-battery
Additional information:
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (“ACCC”) reports the following Button Batteries are subject to this recall:
Filed under: ACCC, Burn or scald hazard, Children, Choking or asphyxiation hazard, Home & Residential, Ingestion hazard | Tagged: ACCC, ACCC PRA number: 2023/19953, Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, batteries, battery, burns hazard, button batteries, child choking hazard, children, choking hazard, coin batteries, death hazard, infants, ingestion hazard, ingestion hazards, Maxell, Maxell CR-1616 Micro Lithium Battery, oral injury, Panasonic, Recalls Direct RIN: 17869-2023, Screenlink Pty Ltd., Suffocation hazards | Leave a comment »