This is Why U.S. Regulators are Suing Amazon and Demanding a Recall on Certain Products

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced on Wednesday that it has sued e-commerce giant Amazon to force the company to recall hundreds of hazardous products that it has on its platform.

The CPSC voted in a 3-1 vote to fild an administrative complaint saying that Amazon was legally responsible to recall the products as they posed a serious risk of injury or death to consumers.

Such products are 24,000 carbon monoxide detectors that failed to go off and almost 400,000 hair dryers that lacked required protection against shock and electrocution. Additionally there were numerous” children’s sleepwear garments that could catch fire, according to the CPSC.

“We must grapple with how to deal with these massive third-party platforms more efficiently, and how best to protect the American consumers who rely on them,” CPSC Acting Chairman Robert Adler stated.

The CPSC also said that Amazon had taken unspecified actions for some of the products, but it was not enough.

Amazon responded by saying it was “unclear” why the CPSC rejected its offer to expand its recall program, including for products sold by third parties, or sued to force actions “almost entirely duplicative” of what it had taken.

Amazon said it had removed “the vast majority” of the products in question from its store and provided full customer refunds.

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