About 94 light-up princess costume sets sold on Amazon have been recalled because children can easily reach the button batteries hidden in the crown, wand and remote control. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the action on Oct. 22 as recall 27-038, and it reported no injuries so far.
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The product is the CIYTI Light-Up Princess Costume, a blue dress packaged with a crown and a wand that glow, plus a remote control. The package reads “CIYTI” on the front, and the items themselves carry no markings, which makes the box the main way to tell a recalled set from a lookalike.
What the CPSC recall notice says about the CIYTI sets
According to the CPSC recall notice, the crowns, scepters and remote controls all contain button batteries. The agency wrote that the costumes “violate the mandatory safety standard for toys because the button cell batteries can be accessed easily by children, posing a deadly ingestion hazard.” In plain terms, the failure is one of design and not of a single bad batch: the battery compartments do not stop a small child from getting at the cells.
The sets were sold online at Amazon from February 2025 through June 2025 for between $21 and $35. The firm named on the notice is FoShanShiNanHaiQuNuoAiTongZhuangShangHang, of China, and the notice lists no separate importer. The sales window closed in June 2025, more than a year before the recall, so the 94 sets may already have been worn, handed down or packed away with other dress-up clothes. The same entry appears in the CPSC recall data feed for recalls dated on or after Oct. 16, alongside the Costway high chair recall announced the same day.
How a swallowed button battery injures a child
The agency’s own guidance on chemical burn hazards states that swallowed batteries “can cause serious injuries, including internal chemical burns, and death.” That language explains why the recall notice treats a costume with an accessible battery as a deadly product even though no incidents or injuries have been reported in connection with the 94 sets. The agency does not wait for a child to be hurt when a toy fails the standard; the failure to keep a button cell out of reach is itself the violation, and the notice says so in its first lines.
The federal rules on coin batteries in toys
Congress passed Reese’s Law to push the market toward safer battery compartments, and the Commission implemented it as 16 CFR part 1263. That rule requires consumer products containing button cell or coin batteries to meet the ANSI/UL 4200A standard and to carry specific warnings on packaging, written in clear, permanent English in contrasting colors, with statements about keeping batteries away from children and disposing of used ones immediately. Toys get a narrower route: a plaything for children under 14 is exempt from part 1263 only if it complies with the battery accessibility and labeling requirements of 16 CFR part 1250, the toy standard. A toy that fails part 1250, as the CPSC says these costumes do, loses that exemption and is simply a violating product.
Light-up dress-up sets are a repeat problem on large online marketplaces. In 2025 the agency issued a unilateral warning about Popsunny princess dress-up sets sold on Amazon by Gizmo Box, and earlier in 2026 it announced a recall of Gavoyeat Halloween light-up rings, also sold on Amazon, for the same battery ingestion hazard. All three items share the same flaw of hard-to-secure batteries in cheap novelty products that glow, and all three were sold through the same marketplace.
What the refund requires of families
The remedy is a full refund, but it comes with steps. Families are told to take the costumes away from children and stop using them, then contact the firm at [email protected]. Before throwing the toys away, the owner must write “RECALLED” in permanent marker on the dress, the crown, the wand and the remote, then email a photo of the marked items to that same address.
The batteries should not go into household trash. The notice directs consumers to dispose of or recycle them through local hazardous waste procedures, rather than being tossed in with the dress and the wand. Keeping the loose cells out of reach until that drop-off is the practical safeguard, since a battery removed from the toy and left on a table is as dangerous as one still inside it.
With Halloween days away, the recalled set is the sort of item that comes out of storage for trick-or-treating. A blue dress with a glowing crown is easy to remember, and the marking “CIYTI” on the packaging is the identifier to look for. Anyone who cannot find the original box has little else to go on, because the CPSC notice says the products themselves are unmarked. Families who bought a light-up costume on Amazon in the February to June 2025 window, and who cannot match the packaging to the notice, can compare the blue dress, crown, wand and remote control with the description above before deciding whether to use it again.
This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.
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