{"id":1584,"date":"2024-09-03T10:10:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T00:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/qisu\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2024-09-19T14:45:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T04:45:38","slug":"call-for-button-battery-redesign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/qisu\/media-links\/call-for-button-battery-redesign","title":{"rendered":"Call for button battery redesign after new study reveals horrific injuries and fatalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h2 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"28\" data-lineheight=\"35px\">Call for button battery redesign after new study reveals horrific injuries and fatalities<\/h2>\n<p>A new study from the Australian Pediatric Surveillance Unit found 35 children have died globally from swallowing or inserting button batteries, including three in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian government introduced mandatory safety and information standards in 2022, despite this there&#8217;s been 110 product recalls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2024-08-23\/button-battery-warning-danger-deaths-lithium-swallow\/103986966?utm_source=abc_news_app&amp;utm_medium=content_shared&amp;utm_campaign=abc_news_app&amp;utm_content=mail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study from the Australian Pediatric Surveillance Unit found 35 children have died globally from swallowing or inserting button batteries, including three in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-links","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/qisu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/qisu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/qisu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/qisu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/qisu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/qisu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/qisu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/qisu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/qisu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/qisu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/qisu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}