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Speaker 1: Bryan bread Bed Batham Beyond Being Naughty fined two hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty thousand dollars for selling children's pajamas and hot

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Speaker 1: water bottles that didn't meet safety requirements. So this is

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Speaker 1: the story. The non compliant pajamas and hot water bottles

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Speaker 1: were sold between March and October of twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Here is the really interesting bit, the reasons these products

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Speaker 1: were so dangerous. The pajamas didn't have fire hazard information

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Speaker 1: printed on them gasp, and the hot water bottles didn't

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Speaker 1: include any instructions about safe usage and storage. The Comments

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Speaker 1: Commission took this case to court. Vanessa Horn is the

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Speaker 1: commission General manager of Competition, Fair Trading and Credit, and

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Speaker 1: she's with me this evening. Good evening, Hi, Ryan, Is

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Speaker 1: this serious?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? It is. So. You know, parliaments decided there were

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Speaker 2: a few products safety standards on some consumer products that

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Speaker 2: particularly those ones that have a detrimental impact for children,

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Speaker 2: and nightwear is one of those things, and so we

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Speaker 2: do take it very seriously.

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Speaker 1: What is so the pajamas didn't have a fire hazard

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Speaker 1: label printed on them? Are they a fire hazard? They particularly?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Right? So yeah, your bag on. So so there's

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Speaker 2: a NightWare standard that particularly focuses on the pajamas that

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Speaker 2: kids wear, and there's a label requirement, mainly for parents,

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Speaker 2: so that they know that that particular pair of pajamas

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Speaker 2: might be more flammable than another. The reason why that's

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Speaker 2: really important is that we still have quite a lot

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Speaker 2: of open fireplaces in New Zealand and we want to

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Speaker 2: make sure that those kids who have got more flammable pajamas,

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Speaker 2: you know, they know not to go next to the

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Speaker 2: fireplace in winter time.

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Speaker 1: Right, okay, And what about the other issue the hot

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Speaker 1: water bottles. No instructions about safe usage and storage. I mean,

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Speaker 1: is that not obvious? Fill it with hot water, you know,

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Speaker 1: be careful, it's hot water.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really interesting. And bed Bath and Beyond sold

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Speaker 2: twenty three thousand of these and that in that period

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Speaker 2: a couple of winters ago. So again, the hot water

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Speaker 2: bottle standard basically tries to remind people to check their

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Speaker 2: hot water bottle at the start of each winter, sort

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Speaker 2: of like what we all do with electric blankets as well,

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Speaker 2: to make sure that that hot water bottle is still

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Speaker 2: safe to use. We often here at the start of winter,

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Speaker 2: particularly old people who have you know, might use their

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Speaker 2: hot water bottle from the previous year or maybe even

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Speaker 2: from five years ago, and it's warped and that the

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Speaker 2: hot water goes straight through it and they get burnt.

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Speaker 1: Venanza, thank you for that. The Commerce Commission. This is

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Speaker 1: Vanessa Horn. She took the case. Commerce Commission, General Manager

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Speaker 1: of Competition, Fair Trading and Credit took the case against

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Speaker 1: bed Bath and Beyond. They are now bad Bath and

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Speaker 1: Beyond and they had been fined two hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars. That was a really heartwarming mom For more,

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