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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will have limited operations during the Christmas and New Year period.

Consumer Protection has removed three dangerous toys from sale after a pre-Christmas product safety blitz and a novelty item was taken off the shelf voluntarily by the supplier.

A joint Australian Customs and Border Protection Service and Australian Competition and

Last minute Christmas shoppers should be on the look-out for unsafe toys this festive season, with the Office of Fair Trading seizing 91 toys in their annual pre-Christmas safety blitz.

An additional five teeth whitening kits have been recalled due to unsafe levels of either hydrogen peroxide and/or carbamide peroxide. The products are:

The Queensland Government is leading the way in the battle to stamp out toxic phthalates in children’s toys.

The risk of unsafe bunk beds harming Queensland children will now be reduced with new laws coming into effect today.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has acted to stop the supply of do-it-yourself (DIY) teeth-whiteners containing unsafe concentrations of peroxide.

The Australian distributor of Organix Ever Straight Brazilian Keratin Therapy products, Lenan Corporation, has provided the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission with a court enforceable undertaking for falsely representing that its hair care products did not contain formaldehyde, sulphates or sodium.

NSW Fair Trading Minister Anthony Roberts will today release the results of New South Wales Fair Trading’s pre-Christmas checks on toys and electrical and other products.