{"id":30707,"date":"2025-09-19T02:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/30707\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T02:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:31:09","slug":"kmart-recalls-anko-portable-blenders-over-risk-of-serious-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/30707\/","title":{"rendered":"Kmart recalls ANKO portable blenders over risk of serious injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>19 Sep, 2025 01:18 AM2 mins to read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A range of ANKO Portable Blenders has been recalled from Kmart by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A range of portable blenders sold at Kmart for seven months has been recalled over concerns that they present a risk of serious injury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The ANKO Portable Blenders were stocked between January 23 and September 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cIf the base of the product is immersed in water, it may self-activate<br \/>\n         without pressing the On\/Off button,\u201d the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) said.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">There was a \u201crisk of serious injury, including laceration from the exposed blades, if the product self-activates\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">Consumers are advised to \u201cimmediately\u201d stop using the products and place them away from any water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 19 Sep, 2025 01:18 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[29542,1558,29543,138,10709,15258,29540,3234,111,139,69,1118,1523,23384,29545,29544,23840,29541,7192,1238,202,3235,1361,8229],"class_list":["post-30707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-anko","tag-been","tag-blenders","tag-business","tag-concerns","tag-injury","tag-kmart","tag-months","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-over","tag-portable","tag-present","tag-range","tag-recalled","tag-recalls","tag-risk","tag-serious","tag-seven","tag-sold","tag-that","tag-they"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}