Below we discuss in detail Reese’s Law two main requirements that impact manufacturers of affected batteries and products: 1. PPPA Packaging Requirement – Effective Now Effective since February 23rd, ...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently adopted comprehensive new safety and labeling requirements for consumer products containing button cell and coin batteries (or products intended ...

JOPLIN, Mo. (KSNF) — Battery maker Energizer has designed a new safety system for their coin-sized lithium button batteries. In April, Energizer launched their 3-in-1 Child Shield which features three ...

Children can suffer serious or deadly injuries after swallowing button batteries, which power a wide range of household items. Physicians say serious injury can happen within two hours, sometimes ...

Look around your house. Chances are you’ve got toys and other household items powered by those tiny button-size batteries. What you may not know is that they’re potentially deadly if swallowed. A new ...

Cute strings of fairy lights, little flameless candles, goofy flashing headbands and dress-up clothes, and tons of toys that blink, beep, and buzz. Around the holidays especially, the market is awash ...

More than 70,000 children in the past decade went to the emergency room for swallowing batteries, a new study found, a stark increase from the previous decade. Using data from the National Electronic ...

Over the years I have replaced coin- and button-cell batteries in countless products and have had to fix or improve the marginal battery holders used in many of them. It’s understandable but ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JOPLIN, Mo. (KSNF) — Battery maker Energizer ...