Submitted on Thursday 29th September 2016
Published on Monday 3rd October 2016
Current status: Closed
Closed: Monday 3rd April 2017
Signatures: 21
Ban the use of button batteries in children's toys
The UK is seeing a large increase in serious injuries, and in some cases death, from children swallowing button batteries.
At the same time, we are seeing an large increase in the use of button batteries in children's toys.
Surely this cannot be coincidence?
Why are we using several button batteries when a single AA or AAA battery would do the same job with a minimal increase in size?
AA type batteries are much less appetising to toddlers and babies who have managed to open their toys to reveal a potentially fatal prize, as well as being much harder to swallow.
My toddler hasn't been injured, thankfully, but when I started to think about how many of his toys contain 3 or 4 of these batteries each, I became quite concerned.
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