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**What is PAS 7055 - Button and coin batteries about?**

Because of two fatal incidents, the UK’s Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch wrote a report on undetected button and coin cell battery ingestion in children. One of the report’s key recommendations was that a standard is produced to set out consistent safety requirements to apply throughout the lifecycle of such batteries. PAS 7055 is the result.

Who is PAS 7055 - Button and coin batteries for?

PAS 7055 on button and coin batteries can be adopted by:

Manufacturers and producers of button and coin batteries
Manufacturers and producers of consumer products that use such batteries
Related importers, distributors and retailers
Consumers
Enforcement authorities
Consumer protection and healthcare bodies

Why should you use PAS 7055 - Button and coin batteries?

To mitigate the risk to children, this standard specifies safety requirements for non-lithium button and lithium coin batteries up to 32 mm in diameter and the products that use them such as torches, greeting cards with audio, novelty balloons, digital scales, remote controls, key fobs, garage-door openers, and watches.

PAS 7055 on button and coin batteries defines what manufacturers and producers are required to do with:

Packaging
Instructions
Labelling
Marketing
Disposal

PAS 7055 also covers the lifecycle of batteries in consumer markets, specifically:

Labelling, instructions, and packaging (including warnings)
Alignment of safety and health warnings
Merchandising, e.g. displays and locations
Encouraging and facilitating safe disposal/recycling
Product safety of typical consumer products using button and coin batteries, e.g. Inclusion of warning text and requirements for secured battery compartments

NOTE: PAS 7055 does not cover:

Disposal and recycling from an environmental perspective
Batteries for professional and industrial use
Aspects already covered in existing standards, e.g. safety requirements in manufacturing of batteries, requirements for toys or audio-visual equipment; and medical devices, e.g. thermometers, hearing aids

PAS 7055:2021

Button and coin batteries. Safety requirements. Specification

Current

Published:

30 Apr 2021