Safety alert: Recalls target products with button/coin batteries that children can swallow

Light-up toys and coin-battery packs recalled over child ingestion hazard, CPSC says.
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Button batteries pose deadly risks to children. Doctors want them to be made safer

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A "button cell" battery is held between a thumb and index finger. If small children swallow them, the batteries can get stuck in ...
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Consumer Reports: Button battery safety warning

CLEVELAND — 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 ...
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Consumer Reports warns of button battery risks in household items

PUTTING YOUR FAMILY AT RISK. BUTTON AND COIN CELL BATTERIES ARE TINY BUT POWERFUL. YOU CAN FIND THEM IN EVERYTHING FROM TEA LIGHTS TO TOYS AND IN THE HANDS OF YOUNG CHILDREN. THEY’RE UNIQUELY ...
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Review of products finds many have button batteries 'dangerously accessible' as choking hazard, despite new law

ATLANTA — Despite new safety laws aimed at protecting children, button and coin cell batteries remain a potentially deadly hazard. A Consumer Reports investigation found that many household items ...
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The only lithium button battery brand I recommend now - for serious safety reasons

Lithium button cells can cause severe injury or death if swallowed. Many makers coat their batteries in a bitter substance to discourage ingestion. Energizer has now added a marker dye to make it ...
WRAL

The hidden dangers of button batteries

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 ...
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5 ON YOUR SIDE: Safety around button batteries

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 ...
Consumer Reports

One-Third of Toys and Household Items With Button-Sized Batteries CR Tested Pose a Hazard to Children

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 ...
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Consumer Reports: A button-sized battery safety warning

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Button batteries pose deadly risks to children. Doctors want them to be made safer

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 ...