LOL! Very good observation, Holmes! 
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OK wow. This letter is dated August of 2022. It’s now almost 2025. Any resolution on these “Reese-proof” packages? Or shall I sign a letter to my congressperson with a bloody thumbprint?
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Yes my child who is 20 but has weak fingers found the new package terrible. We got them new hearing aids on Friday and they were looking forward to going back to battery operated after having had recharables that didn’t hold the charge long enough.
Not only were the batteries hard to get into but they are smaller 312 instead of 13’s so they are harder to access.
my mom has Parkinson’s so the rechargeables are better for her. She doesn’t stream. I still have a packet of the old batteries for myself and plan to keep a hold of one of the old packets to carry spares rather than carry scissors around with me.
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No, it’s dated November 18, 2024.
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Ah! Thank you for that. I got my date off the top of the memorandum, but see that at the very end it is indeed dated 11/18/24. Alrighty, let’s hope someone takes ACTION on behalf of us who don’t want to slice a thumb opening these battery packages.
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The point is that Reese’s Law was intended to protect against ingestion hazards from batteries, and zinc-air batteries don’t present an ingestion hazard. So the decision to include zinc-air, apparently out of an abundance of caution, is arguably a mistake since it adversely affects so many people.
I can do that. Some people can’t because of hand or eye problems.
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Remove pack from card on bottom 7 rivets cut them off with a side cutter and pry the pack apart best way!
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Could you provide an illustration? Not sure what that looks like. Thanks.
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Then they should use a rechargeable hearing aid.
No way I would do it that way! You making this way harder then it needs to be.
Just make sure you cut with a pair scissors all the way to the center of the package
I’ve just done a google check for pics of this new child resistant packing. I could well be wrong, but it doesn’t appear to be very much difference to what we have had for 4+ years downunder in Australia.
Sure they aren’t easy to open, but not impossible to do with your hands. Even with RA & OA in my hands I can still manage without resorting to using scissors.
Here’s what we have in OZ.
It won’t accept a pic of the reverse side of packaging sorry.
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Cut the 7 little welds on the bottom of. Battery pack side cutters work very good!
Until the day some KID or DOG swallows the charging base. Then? All bets are OFF as to what the HA makers will do to ensure charging bases are swallow-proof.
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OW. SO that’s how it is. Yep. I’ve got one of those heavy-duty welded plastic cutting shears that’d get the job done.
I’ll just wear a handymam’s tool apron so I can carry them with me in case I need to cut open a battery pack.
Um. Reese’s folk: are you READING this?
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Cut the 7 plastic welds with side cutter then pry apart bottom cover (has 2cutouts)
Wow. I’m guessing you aren’t old yet…
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I have been keeping from 4 to 8 bat’s in a repurposed memory card holder for the last 15 years or so and NEVER have any of the bat’s loose they’re potential or shorted out, all are layed flat on a thin foam pad so when closed they don’t move around, your specialist may not be totally informed.
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Well is 72 old in your book?
If you are referring to a rechargeable battery base, then you just being plain silly.