The North American Reese's Law (Reese's Law) was enacted on August 16, 2022. It originated from an 18-month-old baby girl Reese Hamsmith who died due to accidental ingestion of button batteries in the United States. Therefore, in order to protect children aged 6 and below from physical damage caused by accidental ingestion of button batteries, it is required to formulate relevant standards and regulations.
The Commission will issue final safety standards for button batteries or button cells and consumer products containing button batteries or cells within one year of enactment, that is, by August 16, 2023. A draft safety standard has now been published and these requirements are to be added to CFR Part 1263. The Commission intends to amend 16CFR as follows: ·
1261.1: Effective Date, Units and Exemptions for Scope Purposes
1263.2: Definitions
1263.3: Requirements for consumer products containing button batteries or button cells
12634 REQUIREMENTS FOR MARKING AND LABELING
1263.5: severability
the draft specifies the basic definition, scope, performance and labeling requirements for products such as button batteries or button cells. And after the promulgation of the bill, all button cell or button cell products or products and packaging applicable to such batteries must meet the performance and label requirements, SRF will focus on the interpretation of performance and label requirements.
1263.3: Yes consumer products containing button batteries or button cells requirements
1. Performance requirements for removable button batteries or button cells for consumer products
removable or replaceable button cell batteries or button cells shall be subject to the contact test method. This test assesses whether a child can access a button cell or cell installed in a consumer product by determining whether the button cell or cell can be accessed by the accessibility probe. The test method is as follows:
determine can the button cell or battery contact. Whether the battery case can be removed without tools.
If a part of the battery box housing is protected by a flexible material, such as fabric, paper, foam or vinyl, or a seamed flexible material protection application The seam tension test in 16CFR Part 1250 uses a force of at least 70.0N to determine whether the battery box housing can be exposed or accessible. If there are new exposed or external or accessible parts of the battery box housing, repeat the test in 1) and the test in (2) of this paragraph until no new parts of the battery box housing are exposed, and then perform the test in (3).
Insert the probe to the depth allowed by the opening in the battery compartment, and rotate or tilt the probe after insertion to determine if the probe can contact the button cell or button cell anywhere.
Note: This test is not to judge the strength of the battery case material, but only to reduce the risk of children touching and swallowing button batteries or button cells. Therefore, the minimum force is used in the test to determine whether the probe can contact the button cell or button cell.
