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Amazon Responsible for Hazardous Products Sold on Its Website, CPSC Says - CNET
The Consumer Product Safety Commission rules that Amazon is a distributor and must create a plan to notify consumers about unsafe products and to provide refunds or replacements.
The CPSC order cited items that include defective carbon monoxide detectors, children's sleepwear that violates flammability standards and hair dryers that lack electrocution protections. Electric vehicles, Tide detergent pods and Pack and Play infant beds(which were sold exclusively on Amazon) are some of the items recalled this year. Amazon must submit a plan to the CPSC describing how it intends to notify consumers and the public about the hazardous products and to provide incentives for their return or destruction.
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