Wall Street Journal found that more than 4,000 items for sale on Amazon have been declared unsafe by federal agencies
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Amazon has removed hundreds of toxic and unsafe products from its site after a Wall Street Journal report found thousands of listings from third-party sellers don’t comply with federal safety standards. Thousands of problematic products remain.
More than 4,000 items for sale on Amazon have been declared unsafe by federal agencies, including 2,000 listings for children’s toys and medications. The Journal also identified 157 items Amazon had already banned still listed on the site, and one product it tested had lead levels that exceed federal limits.
In light of the report, Amazon has reworded or taken down 57% of the 4,152 problematic listings. But the investigation underscores concerns regarding the company’s failure to police dangerous products from third-party sellers on the site.
“In practice, Amazon has increasingly evolved like a flea market,” the Journal’s report said. “It exercises limited oversight over items listed by millions of third-party sellers, many of them anonymous, many in China, some offering scant information.”