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Hamish Hector

A big Amazon ruling means it now has to recall over 400,000 dangerous or faulty third-party products in the US

Mazon logo on the facade of one of their corporate office buildings located in Silicon Valley, San Francisco bay area.

A new order from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CSPC) has found Amazon responsible for hazardous products sold by third-party sellers through its website. The unanimous vote means it must recall 400,00 hazardous items, and it might lead to big changes about how we shop online.

When you’re shopping at Amazon.com, you might reasonably assume it’s the company actually selling you the products. However, Amazon revealed in January this year that over 60% of sales through its site actually come from independent sellers who merely use Amazon as a virtual marketplace.

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