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RecallJan 30, 2025· All ages

Greater Goods Digital Kitchen Scales

Official title: Greater Goods Recalls Digital Kitchen Scales Due to Ingestion Hazard; Violations of Reese's Law Federal Safety Regulations for Consumer Products with Coin Batteries and Child Resistant Coin Battery Packaging

Button batteryBurn
Recalled Gray Digital Kitchen Scale
Recalled Gray Digital Kitchen Scale · Photo: CPSC
Recalled Black Digital Kitchen Scale
Recalled Black Digital Kitchen Scale · Photo: CPSC
Recalled Cherry Red Digital Kitchen Scale
Recalled Cherry Red Digital Kitchen Scale · Photo: CPSC
Recalled Black Glass Digital Kitchen Scale
Recalled Black Glass Digital Kitchen Scale · Photo: CPSC

Greater Goods digital kitchen scales were sold at Alexandra's Kitchen in Niskayuna, NY and online at Amazon, Walmart and Greater Goods. The scale's coin battery can be easily accessed by children and the spare battery is not in child-resistant packaging, violating Reese's Law and posing an ingestion hazard; swallowed coin batteries can cause serious injuries, internal chemical burns and death.

What to do

Consumers should immediately remove the battery in the digital kitchen scale and place it in an area that children cannot access. Contact Greater Goods for information on how to receive a free recall kit, which includes a new replacement battery door that can be secured to the scale, the required labeling, and an updated instruction manual. Greater Goods, Amazon and Walmart are contacting all known purchasers directly.

Contact: Greater Goods toll-free at 866-991-0397 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. CT Monday through Friday, email at recall@greatergoods.com, or online at www.greatergoods.com and click the recall banner at the top of the page or https://shop.greatergoods.com/pages/replaceyourbatterydoor for more information.

How common was it?

MajorAbout 349,500 sold at Amazon and Walmart, 2023–2024

Hundreds of thousands or millions sold. Check your home today.

Read the official CPSC notice →

Official notice

CPSC's own wording, unchanged.

Hazard

The recalled digital kitchen scales violate the mandatory federal regulations for consumer products containing button cell or coin batteries, because the scale has a lithium coin battery that can be easily accessed by children, and a spare coin battery provided with the product not in child resistant packaging, as required by Reese's Law. These violations pose an ingestion hazard. The recalled scales also do not have the required warnings. When button cell or coin batteries are swallowed, the ingested batteries can cause serious injuries, internal chemical burns, and death.

Sold at

Alexandra's Kitchen store located in Niskayuna, New York and online at Amazon, Walmart and Greater Goods from May 2023 through September 2024 for about $10.

Units

About 349,500

Incidents and injuries

None reported

Model numbers and UPCs

0480, 0455, 0456, 0458, 0473, 0479, 0481, 0747, 0748, 0749, 0751, 0752, 0754

Brand

Greater Goods

From the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, recalled Jan 30, 2025. The summary above is ours; for anything that matters, go by the official notice. Had a problem with this product? Report it at SaferProducts.gov.

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