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Product recalls: how to check your baby's things and get free alerts from the ACCC

The ACCC lists every recalled consumer product in Australia and emails you free alerts for the kinds you choose, such as cots, prams, toys and button batteries. How to search it, how to sign up, and what to do if something you own is recalled.

A mother sits at a kitchen bench reading her phone, with a baby bottle and a wooden toy on the bench and a toddler's toy high chair behind her

A recall notice usually reaches the people who already read recall notices. Most of us never see one. The cot, the walker or the teether stays in the house, still in use.

In Australia, every recalled consumer product is listed in one place: ACCC Product Safety, run by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. You can search it in a minute, and it will email you free alerts for just the products you care about.

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What it is

The ACCC is the national regulator for the safety of things you buy. When a supplier finds a product may hurt someone, the supplier must recall it, and the recall is listed on the ACCC's Product Safety site. On 28 October 2026 that list held more than 8,000 recalls, 391 of them for baby and toddler products and over 1,100 for kids' toys.

In October 2026 alone, the list added a backpack with a foldable crib sold through Temu, a 3-in-1 baby walker, a pull-and-pop toy and a silicone teether for babies, a fidget toy and a clip-on reading light with button batteries, and a pack of button batteries sold in discount stores. All ordinary things, sold in ordinary shops and online.

Who it is for

Anyone with young children at home, and anyone who buys for them: grandparents, carers, people buying second-hand. A hand-me-down cot or a cheap online toy is exactly the sort of thing that gets recalled after it has left the shop.

Sign up for alerts, step by step

  1. Open the ACCC's "Receive email alerts" page (button above).
  2. Type your email address.
  3. Choose the product categories you want. For a family with a baby or toddler, tick Baby and toddler products and Kids' toys, and pick the smaller groups inside them if you like: cots, prams and strollers, walkers, toys for babies and toddlers, rattles and teethers. Button batteries has its own category, and it is worth ticking.
  4. Submit. The alerts come by email when a new recall in your categories is listed. It is free and you can stop it any time.

Some products are recalled through other agencies, and each has its own alerts: cars on the Vehicle Recalls website, food on Food Standards Australia New Zealand, and medicines on the Therapeutic Goods Administration.

Check what you already have

Alerts only cover what is recalled from now on. For what is already in the house:

  1. Open the ACCC recall search.
  2. Type the product's brand or name, or pick a topic such as Baby and toddler products.
  3. Open any match and compare the model and batch details with the label on your product.

Do this for the big things first: cot, bassinet, pram, car seat, high chair, walker, baby bouncer. Then do it before you take anything second-hand.

If something you own is recalled

The ACCC's advice is short:

  1. Stop using it.
  2. Put it out of children's reach.
  3. Contact the supplier for a repair, replacement or refund, and don't wait.

The recall notice tells you who the supplier is and how to reach them.

If the supplier won't help, or a product hurt someone

Tell the ACCC. Its "Report an unsafe product" form is for when a supplier won't repair, replace or refund a recalled product, when a shop is still selling a recalled product, or when a product has injured someone or seems unsafe. You can report it as yourself or anonymously.

What it costs

Nothing. Searching, alerts and reporting are all free.

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