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Amazon must recall over 400,000 unsafe products

Amazon musi wycofać ponad 400 000 niebezpiecznych produktów

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400,000 dangerous Amazon products

Amazon failed to adequately warn more than 300,000 customers about serious hazards, including death and electric shock, that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) found in tests of more than 400,000 products sold by third parties on its platform.

The CPSC voted unanimously to hold Amazon legally liable for defective third-party seller products. Now the retail giant must develop a plan to properly recall dangerous products, including highly flammable children's pajamas, faulty carbon monoxide detectors and dangerous hair dryers that can cause electric shock, still widely used in homes, according to wired.com.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission summarized the risks to customers this way:

“If the products end up in consumers' possession, children will continue to wear pajamas, which can catch fire and cause injury or death; consumers will unknowingly rely on faulty carbon monoxide detectors that will never warn of the presence of the deadly gas in their homes; consumers will use purchased hair dryers that do not have protection against accidental immersion in water, exposing themselves to electric shock.”

Gift cards in lieu of product recalls

Instead of recalling products sold between 2018 and 2021, Amazon sent customers messages that the CPSC said "downplayed the seriousness of the threats." In the news, "despite final test results showing the products were unsafe, Amazon only warned customers that the products may not have met federal safety standards and only potentially posed a risk of burns to children, electric shock or exposure to potentially unsafe levels of carbon monoxide," it quoted arstechnica.com.

Amazon then advised customers to destroy the products and specifically advised them not to make returns. The e-commerce giant also gave each affected customer a gift card without requiring proof of destruction and informing customers of the actual dangers, which is required by law to ensure public safety.

Over the years, Amazon has tried to argue that it doesn't have to pursue the recall because it is not legally recognized as a distributor under the Consumer Product Safety Act CPSA. However, the Commission was not convinced by the argument that it was merely a "logistics service provider" for third-party sellers. The CPSC concluded that "Amazon controls the entire sales process."

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