US sues Amazon for: The US has filed a lawsuit against Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, accusing the e-commerce giant of selling hazardous products to its customers.
Carbon monoxide detectors that fail to alarm, numerous children’s pyjamas that could catch fire, and nearly 400,000 hair dryers that could electrocute people if dropped in water are among the products mentioned in the lawsuit.
According to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Amazon is responsible for the safety of its customers who visit their website.
The products mentioned are not sold directly by Amazon (AMZN), but rather by third parties who use Amazon’s platform.
Many of the companies that sold the dangerous products mentioned by the CPSC are foreign, and the CPSC has limited authority to force a recall of their products if they are found to be dangerous.
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“Today’s vote to file an administrative complaint against Amazon was a huge step forward for this small agency”,
“However, it is a huge step across a vast desert — we need to figure out how to deal with these massive third-party platforms more efficiently, and how to best protect the American consumers who rely on them.” The Acting Chairman Robert Adler says.
Last year, the company received $80 billion in commissions and other payments from third-party sellers, who account for more than half of all physical goods sold on Amazon.
Amazon said the company takes prompt action when it is made aware of safety problems with products sold on the site, either by Amazon or third-party sellers. It said in the instances it did not recall products it was because “CPSC did not provide Amazon with enough information for us to take action and despite our requests. It said it offered CPSC to expand its capabilities to handle recalls for products.
“We are unclear as to why the CPSC has rejected that offer or why they have filed a complaint seeking to force us to take actions almost entirely duplicative of those we’ve already taken,” Amazon said in a statement, Thursday, July 15.
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