A recent Consumer Product Safety Commission ruling says Amazon is responsible for notifying consumers of any recalls.
SEATTLE — There are countless online marketplaces you can use to buy products and get them delivered to your home, but few are as vast as Amazon with millions of items available.
It can be hard to know which products are safe and which ones could put your family at risk — but that could be changing. As Consumer Reports explains, the pressure is now on Amazon to better notify shoppers of potentially defective, dangerous and recalled products sold on its site.
The decision focused on more than 400,000 units of faulty carbon monoxide detectors, noncompliant children’s pajama sets and dangerous hair dryers sold through Amazon’s FBA program — all of which the CPSC said were “defective and pose a risk of serious injury or death.”
Consumer Reports says the new rule is …