{"id":364106,"date":"2025-12-22T07:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/364106\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T07:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:56:09","slug":"city-beach-fined-14m-by-federal-court-over-button-battery-safety-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/364106\/","title":{"rendered":"City Beach fined $14m by Federal Court over button battery safety breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian fashion retailer City Beach has been fined $14 million for selling “non-compliant button battery products”.<\/p>\n

The Federal Court heard the retailer, owned by parent company Fewstone, admitted it had supplied products like toys, digital notepads, key rings and light-up Jibbitz accessories for Crocs shoes on more than 54,000 occasions between 2022 and 2024.<\/p>\n

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) started court proceedings against the retailer, arguing the products in question did not comply with mandatory button battery safety and information standards.<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/p>\n

The recalled products include toys and key rings.\u00a0 (Supplied: ACCC)<\/p>\n

Button batteries are small, flat, circular batteries, commonly used in toys, remote controls and other small products.<\/p>\n

If swallowed, they can cause severe internal burns and even death<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The ACCC said City Beach’s “pervasive failures” had put more than 50,000 young children at risk of severe injury or death.<\/p>\n

“Button batteries pose a significant risk to children, and can be fatal,” ACCC commissioner Luke Woodward said.<\/p>\n

Toys fail button battery safety test<\/a><\/p>\n

The consumer group is warning parents to be wary of the dangers of button batteries in seemingly harmless products aimed at children.<\/p>\n

“The ACCC will not hesitate to take strong enforcement action against businesses that fail to comply with the button battery standards.”<\/p>\n

City Beach has issued a product recall on its website, saying: “Nothing is more important to us than the safety and trust of the people who shop with us.”<\/p>\n

“We are deeply sorry for any worry or inconvenience this situation may cause you and your family.”<\/p>\n

Anyone who purchased any of the listed products has been urged to stop using them immediately and return them for a full refund.<\/p>\n

It was the first court proceeding brought by the ACCC for breaches of button safety standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian fashion retailer City Beach has been fined $14 million for selling “non-compliant button battery products”. The Federal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11275,64,63,12459,99,143116,198028,61204,70,36987,16863],"class_list":["post-364106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-accc","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-breach","tag-business","tag-button-batteries","tag-city-beach","tag-failure","tag-federal-court","tag-fine","tag-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}