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New button battery laws (Australia)
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Zero999:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on June 21, 2022, 10:50:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zero999 on June 20, 2022, 07:32:01 am ---How about childproof battery packaging? I think that would make just as much of a difference.

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You haven't bought coin cells in consumer packaging for a while I take it? It's in adult proof packaging nowadays. There's no way you can get at the battery without cutting the (tough PET) packaging off it. The last few times I've had to do it I've had genuine concerns about shorting the cell out with the scissors that I was using to extricate the cell with.

Just found an unopened one. That PET film is on both sides of the cell and is heat sealed around the edges.


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Yes, those can be difficult to open, but I'm not talking about the single packs. The multipacks of button cells are notorious for spontaneously opening, after being stored for a year or so.
Wallace Gasiewicz:
I have had multipacks like the one Zero999 showed.
They do fall apart easily with time.

In my professional experience, kids will swallow anything and no amount of prevention is perfect. Some adults do pretty stupid things also.
The severity of complications of battery indigestion is bad enough to require some sort of packaging safety.
This might seem silly, but how about putting them in child proof prescription containers? Perhaps something like that could be made for the different sized batteries?

About bad taste: some kids will eat anything regardless of the bad taste, like soap and the really bad one: dishwasher detergent. I do not think this imaginative idea works well enough.
AndyBeez:
I do support secure battery compartment design, as this is just good product design. Last thing I need is my AG6 cells rolling off under the sofa when I drop my pound store flashy zappy gimmick pen toy thing.

As for children eating random stuff, it's been a problem for centuries. I bet even the Romans had laws on child proof amphora lids. Parents, worrying as it is, it's what children do.
Geoff-AU:

--- Quote from: tom66 on June 20, 2022, 09:49:21 pm ---It doesn't seem to apply to the UK, every pack of button cells I've got is a simple cardboard and plastic tray arrangement, which is trivially opened.

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Enjoy it while it lasts.  Here, the batteries are all coming hermetically sealed in very strong plastic.  I have to cut the battery out of the plastic in order to use it, very annoying.
Zero999:

--- Quote from: AndyBeez on June 22, 2022, 10:49:54 pm ---As for children eating random stuff, it's been a problem for centuries. I bet even the Romans had laws on child proof amphora lids. Parents, worrying as it is, it's what children do.

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True, but people only started really worrying about safety and making laws, as society became a much safer due to technological developments. It seems to be the safer we are, the more we worry about safety and fear danger. We're getting to the point of diminishing returns, where it's doing more harm than good in many cases.
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