I’ve not yet seen any official Amazon announcement in regards to Reese’s Law (link, CPSC), intended to prevent accidental ingestion of ‘button cell’/‘coin’ by wee folks, but judging from this NSFE discussion it does appear that the policing Amabot has been unleashed:
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/f383a7e6-df94-432e-9ba8-06e585ef5d01
There’s a pretty fair analysis of why enforcement was delayed here:
From reading the law, sounds as if it doesn’t matter what you say your device is, you need the certification proving it. Which is, of course, appropriate.
No doubt a PITA for many, but I can see that there is at least some reasoning behind the law. I expect to see a lot more complaints, but no way is Amazon going to go anything but the most strict conservative route; they’re already a big target, no need to add any suspicion of non-compliance to the mix.
Now I’m gonna go get a peanut-butter cup.
Well-played. VERY well-played!
It’s going to make life “interesting” for some of us –
“batteries must be secured in one of two ways: a tool such as a screwdriver is required to open the compartment, or opening the compartment requires at least two independent and simultaneous actions.”
Yeah, I’m dreading this not as a seller of affected products, but as a consumer who already has enough trouble with many of these devices.
Going out on a limb here …
A @Dogtamer spinoff so to speak …
Battery Meets Hammer
Hey … it would be a swing and a hit … two independent and simultaneous actions
The expected News Headline arrived about two hours after I created this topic-thread, as may be seen here:
New requirements for consumer products with button cell or coin batteries (link, Seller Central)
Yeah I bought a pack of those coin sized batteries and it comes in packaging where you have to cut the plastic around it to get them out. This feature to protect negligent parents is not appreciated.
That’s it in a nutshell, as far as I can tell.
Handbaskets abound in our Modern Society, to be sure - but there’s a reason or two (or four, or more) why avoidance of toting one to a hellish outcome remains beyond the ken of all too many of we puny humans.
I was thinking more along the lines of the things that use the batteries; but yeah, some of the packaging can be a pain.
Of course, I suspect some of it will be like the “Child-Proof” medicine bottles, that us old people sometimes struggle with, but the kids can open in an instant. 
I have a special knife in the kitchen drawer for opening clamshell packaging, and a tool kit of tiny screwdriver bits to open the battery compartments and other tiny things, along with a pair of magnifier glasses to be able to merely SEE the little devils.
Button cell batteries certainly are a choking hazard, but they have a bitter coating these days, to make it unlikely that a child will do more than taste, and spit them out. The overseas manufacturers of these batteries will catch up, but THIS is the solution to the problem, not more complex device battery access.
Locally … within the last 2 or 3 years, there was a little girl who swallowed a button battery which lodged in the esophagus. The short time it was in the esophagus … the battery burned a hole through it. Sadly, the little girl didn’t make it. This occurred in the months right before or right after this law was passed and got a lot of press locally.
Kids don’t always put things in their mouth to “taste”. When I was young (about 5 or 6), we were shopping in JC Penny and were in the dressing rooms. There were straight pins on the floor and I proceeded to keep myself busy by picking them up. I would pick them up and hold them in my mouth as I collected them. I sneezed or coughed and one of them went down my throat … a totally involuntary action. Lucky for me … a few slaps on the back got it out.
Agree … tell a kid not to and they will find an easy way to do.
I have my doubts that this will work. Many know how to game the system.
Case in point, we have an autistic grandson, he was infatuated with dragonflies. We bought a set on Amazon.
The catalog page indicted they had a “Sticker” on the dragonfly. When they came in the “sticker” was a 1/4 inch by 1/8 inch thick magnet. That came off very easy as soon as you pulled on it.
I will let everyone guess the country of origin that it came from.
So make all the laws you want, shady sellers (lying in that region is a badge of honor, spent many years there) will find a way around the law.
Ultimately it’s the parent’s responsibility to make sure their kids are safe.
When we were little, my only a year younger brother in his stroller found a penny on the ground, reached way over and picked it up, saw another slightly farther away, and put the first one in his mouth to use both hands to lean and reach to try to grab the other. In the straining for the second penny, he swallowed the first and started choking. I was the only one who saw it all, and it was SO FAST that it took my toddler brain a second to understand what had happened and alert adults. He ended up having to go to the hospital because although it dislodged from his throat, well, there’s still the matter of the dirty ground penny in his body.
Even the most caring, vigilant parents can lose their babies to a tragic accident in a heartbeat, and I feel for the family in your town.
As a parent and basically just a grown @$$ adult with a brain and morals, I give zero ducks about any minor inconvenience child-safe packaging and product design causes me. None of that compares to losing a child, a grandchild, a niece or nephew, a student, etc.
My 8 yo brother swallowed a quarter once. Luckily it was lodged in a way that he could still breathe, but they were worried it would turn, so he rode an ambulance.
He was 8. As he explained it, it had something to do with a girl and he was embarrassed, so he put his hand to his mouth and it had a quarter in it, which went in.
The doctors told mom to not give him coins.
I think that, in one way or another, that’s one of the major causes of injury to young boys.
Of ALL ages, thank you…
My thoughts exactly. Children have been swallowing things they shouldn’t since forever. And not because they taste good.
Too late for edit - I don’t mean that making them taste bad isn’t a good idea. It’s just that it should not be thought of as a sure-fire preventative. Or even a very likely one.