EEMB USA Battery Pouch Recall: CPSC 26-465 Coin-Battery Ingestion Risk

Status, July 1 source check: source-cleared for a BadPD consumer-safety recall ledger. The controlling record is CPSC recall 26-465, published May 7, 2026, for EEMB lithium battery packs sold in individual pouches. CPSC says the pouches are not child-resistant as required under Reese’s Law, creating a serious ingestion risk if a child swallows a button cell or coin battery.

This is recall-record accountability reporting, not medical, legal, battery-use, battery-disposal, refund, resale, electronics-repair, shipping, marketplace, or purchase advice. The official CPSC recall, EEMB recall process, Amazon order record, pouch and battery markings, and any later CPSC amendment control whether a specific pack is included and what remedy proof is accepted.

What CPSC Says Was Recalled

CPSC identifies the recalled product as EEMB Lithium Battery Packs. The recall involves lithium batteries in individual white pouches with EEMB printed in the upper left corner. The coin battery itself has EEMB and the battery type printed on the face.

The model list in the CPSC record includes CR2025, CR2032, CR2450, CR2477, CR2016, CR1220, CR1225, CR1616, CR1620, CR1632, and CR2025-10. CPSC says the batteries came in five, ten, or twenty size packs. This matters because the risk is not limited to one small product listing or one battery size.

The unit count is significant. CPSC lists about 312,100 affected packs. The sale channel in the public notice is online at Amazon.com from about August 2023 through April 2026 for between about $3 and $9. EEMB USA, doing business as A2batt, Inc. of Redlands, California, is listed as the retailer or distributor, and the recalled batteries were manufactured in China.

Small batteries are easy to treat as low-dollar consumables. The recall record says the opposite: a low-cost item can still carry a high-consequence ingestion risk when packaging does not meet child-resistant requirements. A searchable public ledger should preserve the model list, sale window, Amazon channel, company name, and recall number so buyers can connect ordinary order-history language to the official CPSC notice.

The Hazard Is Reese’s Law Packaging, Not A Reported Injury

CPSC says the lithium coin batteries are in pouches that are not child-resistant as required under Reese’s Law. The agency’s hazard statement says that if a child swallows button cell or coin batteries, the ingested batteries can cause serious injuries, including internal chemical burns and death.

The incident field matters. CPSC lists none reported for incidents and injuries in this recall. BadPD is preserving that status plainly. This article does not claim that a child was injured by an EEMB battery pack. It reports that the federal recall identifies a child-resistant-packaging violation and a serious ingestion hazard before any injury report appears in the recall record.

That distinction is important in both directions. It prevents exaggeration, but it also prevents minimization. A no-injury recall can still be urgent when the product is accessible to children and the hazard is severe. Button and coin battery ingestion can become dangerous quickly, and packaging rules are intended to prevent a child from reaching the battery before an adult even knows there is a problem.

The safe public frame is narrow and source-labeled: CPSC 26-465 says these identified EEMB lithium battery packs have non-child-resistant pouches under Reese’s Law, creating a battery-ingestion hazard. It does not say every EEMB battery is recalled. It does not say every Amazon battery listing has the same defect. It does not say EEMB or Amazon intentionally exposed children to risk.

Remedy And Contact Path

CPSC lists refund as the remedy. The official notice says consumers should stop using the lithium batteries immediately, place them in an area that children cannot access, and contact EEMB USA to receive a full refund. CPSC also includes a note that button cell and coin batteries are hazardous and should be disposed of or recycled by following local hazardous waste procedures.

The official contact route listed by CPSC is EEMB USA by email at info@a2batt.com, online at www.eemb.com/recall, or through EEMB.com by clicking Recall at the top of the page. BadPD is not collecting refund requests, order screenshots, pouch photographs, disposal confirmation, or battery-identification evidence.

The refund process should be tested against official channels because online marketplace purchases can create practical gaps. Buyers may have multiple small battery purchases, shared household accounts, business accounts, gift purchases, closed Amazon accounts, or order histories that do not use the exact CPSC title. The recall is clearer when the model list and pouch identifiers are easy to compare against order history.

The official source set does not show refund fulfillment totals. That is a pending accountability record. A recall notice tells consumers what should happen. A fulfillment ledger shows whether refunds were requested, approved, denied, delayed, or completed.

Why This Needs A Standalone Ledger

Button and coin battery hazards are easy to lose in broad recall traffic because the products are small and inexpensive. The severity is not small. CPSC’s broader button-cell and coin-battery guidance treats these products as a distinct safety category because children can be seriously harmed before a caregiver realizes what was swallowed.

This EEMB record also has an online-marketplace accountability angle. CPSC names Amazon.com as the sale channel for the affected packs from August 2023 through April 2026. A buyer who ordered batteries for a remote, scale, key fob, toy, light, thermometer, watch, candle, sensor, or other device may not connect a generic battery pouch in a drawer with a federal recall unless the listing title, model numbers, pouch markings, and Amazon notice are all clear.

The public question is not whether Amazon is automatically liable for the packaging issue. The public question is whether the recall notice actually reached the buyer population created by Amazon sales. The source-backed follow-up records would include buyer notification counts, email or account-message language, listing takedown proof, search-result cleanup, refund instructions, seller communication, and whether replacement listings meet the child-resistant packaging standard.

A standalone page also helps because the model list is long. Searchers may look for CR2025, CR2032, CR2450, CR2477, CR2016, CR1220, CR1225, CR1616, CR1620, CR1632, or CR2025-10 rather than the exact CPSC title. Keeping those identifiers in one source-labeled ledger makes the record easier to find without inventing facts beyond the CPSC notice.

Plain-Language File Check

The product family to check is EEMB lithium battery packs in individual pouches. The CPSC model list includes CR2025, CR2032, CR2450, CR2477, CR2016, CR1220, CR1225, CR1616, CR1620, CR1632, and CR2025-10. The packs came in five, ten, or twenty counts.

The recall identifiers are the EEMB mark on the battery face, the battery type printed on the battery, and the white pouch with EEMB printed in the upper left corner. The sale route listed by CPSC is Amazon.com from August 2023 through April 2026 for $3 to $9.

The official remedy path is EEMB USA. CPSC says to stop using the batteries, keep them where children cannot access them, and contact EEMB USA for a full refund. CPSC’s disposal note should be read through official local hazardous-waste rules and EEMB/CPSC instructions; BadPD is not providing disposal instructions.

Why Marketplace Notice Is The Accountability Test

The CPSC record names Amazon.com as the sale channel, but the recall notice itself does not show the buyer-notice trail. For an online-only sale record, the buyer-notice trail is the accountability test. The public should be able to separate a posted recall from a completed recall by asking whether the affected customer accounts were actually reached.

A useful notice file would show whether Amazon or the seller sent direct email, account-message, order-history, product-safety, or refund notices to buyers. It would also show whether customers who bought several battery models received model-specific guidance, whether business accounts were included, and whether buyers who no longer use the original email account still saw the warning when logging into Amazon.

The seller-side file matters too. EEMB USA and A2batt should be able to show how refund requests are matched to affected models, what information a consumer must provide, how long response takes, and how customers are told to keep batteries away from children while the refund process is pending. Those are practical recall-performance questions, not accusations.

Because the product is small and cheap, some households may keep it in a drawer long after purchase. That makes clear recall matching more important, not less. A recalled coin-battery pouch does not become low-risk because it cost less than ten dollars. The public record should track notice, listing cleanup, refund fulfillment, and later incident status until the recovery picture is clearer.

Records BadPD Wants To See Next

The first missing record is buyer-notification proof. Because CPSC names Amazon.com as the sale channel, the strongest public record would show how many buyers were notified through Amazon account messages, email, seller messages, or other direct notice systems. It should also show whether notices reached business accounts, closed accounts, gift recipients, and buyers who purchased more than one affected model.

The second missing record is refund fulfillment data. The public should eventually know how many refund requests EEMB received, how many were approved, how many were denied, what proof was required, how long refunds took, and whether customers received clear instructions for batteries they already opened or partially used.

The third missing record is marketplace cleanup. The source-backed follow-up should show whether affected listings were removed or corrected, whether search results stopped surfacing recalled pouches, whether replacement battery listings use compliant packaging, and whether customer-service scripts distinguish recalled EEMB packs from nonrecalled products.

The fourth missing record is later incident status. CPSC says no incidents were reported in the recall notice. That should remain the public status unless later CPSC updates, poison-control records, court filings, retailer complaints, or other accountable records show otherwise.

Confirmed, Pending, Not Established

Confirmed by CPSC records

• CPSC recall 26-465 was published May 7, 2026.
• The recalled product is EEMB Lithium Battery Packs in individual pouches.
• The unit count is about 312,100.
• The model list includes CR2025, CR2032, CR2450, CR2477, CR2016, CR1220, CR1225, CR1616, CR1620, CR1632, and CR2025-10.
• The batteries came in five, ten, or twenty size packs.
• CPSC says the pouches are not child-resistant as required under Reese’s Law.
• CPSC says button cell or coin battery ingestion can cause serious injuries, including internal chemical burns and death.
• CPSC lists refund as the remedy.
• CPSC says consumers should stop using the batteries, place them where children cannot access them, and contact EEMB USA.
• CPSC lists no reported incidents or injuries as of the recall record.
• CPSC lists Amazon.com sales from about August 2023 through April 2026 for about $3 to $9.
• EEMB USA, doing business as A2batt, Inc. of Redlands, California, is listed as retailer/distributor.
• The recalled battery packs were manufactured in China.

Pending or missing records

• Buyer-notification proof from EEMB, A2batt, Amazon, and any marketplace communication channel.
• Refund request, approval, denial, and completion totals.
• Proof of affected listing removal, correction, or replacement with compliant packaging.
• Customer-service scripts and order-history matching guidance for buyers.
• Any later CPSC amendment, incident report, enforcement record, poison-control signal, state consumer-protection record, or civil filing.
• Whether opened packs, partially used packs, or business-account purchases are handled differently in the refund process.

Not established by this source set

• That every EEMB battery product is recalled.
• That every battery sold on Amazon has the same packaging issue.
• That any ingestion injury has been reported in this recall.
• That Amazon or EEMB failed to notify buyers.
• That all affected packs have been recovered or refunded.
• That future EEMB listings use or fail to use compliant packaging.

BadPD Bottom Line

CPSC 26-465 belongs in the BadPD consumer-safety accountability lane because it involves more than 300,000 small battery packs, a federal child-resistant packaging issue under Reese’s Law, a named Amazon sale channel, and a serious ingestion hazard that can include internal chemical burns and death even though the official recall record lists no reported incidents.

BadPD will update this ledger if CPSC, EEMB USA, A2batt, Amazon, state consumer-protection offices, poison-control records, court records, refund-process records, or other accountable sources add buyer-notification proof, refund fulfillment data, incident updates, amended recall instructions, enforcement action, or litigation tied to EEMB Lithium Battery Packs, the listed CR models, Amazon sales, or CPSC recall 26-465.

Source Ledger

• CPSC recall 26-465, EEMB lithium battery packs, May 7, 2026
• CPSC saferproducts.gov Recall API record, RecallNumber 26465
• CPSC button cell and coin battery business guidance
• CPSC official product image, recalled CR2025 lithium battery as pouch appears
• CPSC official product image, recalled CR2032 lithium battery front
• EEMB recall information page listed by CPSC

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