"Child Resistant" hearing aid batteries — issues?

My old TI scientific calculator had batteries put in like that, I like it!

I’ve been separating the front plastic from the rear backing cardboard. I use pliers for a good grip. Then I load the batteries into my old containers I started saving as soon as I heard about this.

I really hate this new child resistant packaging. The death of any child is unthinkable but I just did some research. Since 1977 71 children have died from swallowing button batteries. In 2024 alone 1,403 children have died after being shot by a gun. Since I have to I’ll put up with this !!! packaging but can we also maybe get some stronger gun control laws?

I doubt any of those 71 have died as a result of a Zinc Air hearing aid battery

As far as how to deal with new packaging. For Kirkland 312 batteries in new packaging I vote for cutting around the circle about half way and then separating the plastic from the cardboard. Much easier than cutting on the diagonal as suggested on the packaging.

The new child-proof packaging of the Ray-o-vac hearing aid batteries are also Senior-proof. They are encased in very hard plastic and require scissors to open. Even when cut open with scissors, you still have to struggle to pry the hand plastic open to remove the batteries. While struggling to pry them open, the small batteries often go flying onto the floor where things seem to disappear completely. I get angry every time I open a package, thinking how the engineers that designed the new packaging gave no thought what-so-ever to a seniors with limited finger and hand use. I am 73 and have full os of my fingers/hands, and still have a very difficult time opening them. When leaving home you must take a pair of scissors with you, otherwise you won’t be able to open the package. I now take an hour or two, to open several packages of batteries and put them in the previous “senior considerate” packaging which I saved several of. I would like to complain to Ray-O-Vac and the Veterans Administration who buy millions of packages of these batteries, but don’t know how to contact the department that can affect a redesign of the new “senior-proof” packaging.

Complaining to Ray-O-Vac or the VA is wizzing in a wind storm. Ray-O-Vac made the change because they had to stay compliant with the new law. VA buys batteries and they all have the new packaging.

There is a thread on here about folks opening a package and storing to use later. Not sure why anyone would need to carry scissors.

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Correct. When one gets the scissors out, wrestles with the package, twisting plastic and hard cardboard it becomes mutilated. At that point it would be easier for a small child to start chewing on the mutilated package and ingest the small batteries. The parents are 100% percent responsible for protecting their children, not Costco. Also, in the old packaging the batteries werent all that easily accesible for liberating and chewing anyway. The new packaging is a nightmare.
I want to know if i can sue Costco for the cuts sustained on my fingers from the mutilated plastic while i struggled getting a battery out.

Ive also got a lot of the old dial ones i will utilize by inserting new batteries.

Hold on! Those nifty containers found on amazon wont fit in my jeans pocket where i carry batteries when im out all day. Rechargables dont work for me because i am on long distance travel all the time and the bulky recharging device is a pain to carry and set up in a new hotel everyother day. ALSO, i tried shipping the big plastic recharging device and the hearing aids back to costco from Thailand when it had problems. All the postal companies refused to ship it because of their lithium battery rules. They said the batteries were lithium whether they are or not. DHL, UPS, etc, they all said the same thing. Verbotten!

If only the parents realized this sooner. Their child’s life didn’t end just from her ingesting the battery. There was some medical negligence, but proper medical intervention could’ve been provided

I’ve gotten to where I don’t have to shed blood every time I deal with the packaging. That doesn’t mean I don’t still resent Big Brother making me go to the extra bother.

It is the sheer stupidity of the package designers. They only looked at the “child proof” portion of the design and not the usability aspects. I don’t see why a design similar to the blister-packs that many pills come in wouldn’t work. Certainly child proof, each battery would be separate, and can be opened relatively easily.

Now I can no longer travel with just a carry-on. I will need to check a bag to carry my heavy-duty scissors.