{"id":1010655,"date":"2026-05-29T08:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010655"},"modified":"2026-05-29T08:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:18:14","slug":"australian-watchdog-sues-amazon-unit-over-childrens-backpack-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/29\/australian-watchdog-sues-amazon-unit-over-childrens-backpack-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian watchdog sues Amazon unit over children&#8217;s backpack safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s competition watchdog \u200bsaid on Friday that it \u200bhas initiated legal action against Amazon&#8217;s local unit, alleging \u200bbreaches of product safety labelling laws related to children&#8217;s backpacks. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), the company is accused of supplying children&#8217;s &#8220;Unicorn Toddler Backpacks&#8221; that \u200cwere not \u2060compliant with \u2060mandatory safety standards for button batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s competition watchdog \u200bsaid on Friday that it \u200bhas initiated legal action against Amazon&#8217;s local unit, alleging \u200bbreaches of product safety labelling laws related to children&#8217;s backpacks. According to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), the company is accused of supplying children&#8217;s &#8220;Unicorn Toddler Backpacks&#8221; that \u200cwere not \u2060compliant with \u2060mandatory safety standards for button batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010681,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010655\/revisions\/1010681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}