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The patron watchdog will crack down on dodgy sleep merchandise for younger kids because it makes toddler and toddler security its “highest product security precedence”.
ACCC deputy chair Catriona Lowe mentioned the main focus can be on toys for kids below three, merchandise containing button batteries and toppling furnishings over the following yr.
It had additionally launched an training marketing campaign to stop demise and accidents from the usage of incline sleepers and rockers, bassinets and cots, bouncers and sleep aids.
“Addressing points for younger kids, who’re among the many most weak shoppers, is our highest product security precedence,” Ms Lowe instructed te Nationwide Client Congress in Melbourne on Thursday.
“This broad physique of labor will contain persevering with compliance, enforcement and training initiatives with a deal with toys for kids below three, merchandise containing button batteries and toppling furnishings.”
Together with younger kids’s security and toddler sleep merchandise, the ACCC’s security focus additionally contains guaranteeing the protection of sustainable merchandise and to cut back the dangers from reused or second-hand items which can be bought on-line.
“We’ll proceed to encourage on-line platforms and suppliers to undertake greatest practices to stop and detect the sale of unsafe items in addition to monitoring unsafe, non-compliant and banned merchandise on-line utilizing surveillance expertise,” Ms Lowe mentioned.
The regulator would proceed to work with on-line platforms to assist stop and detect the sale of unsafe items in addition to monitor unsafe, non-compliant and banned merchandise on-line utilizing surveillance expertise.
– AAP