Amazon is being sued by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) which hopes to force the retailer to recall hundreds of thousands of potentially deadly products.
The CPSC has filed an administrative complaint against Amazon today in a bid to force it to accept responsibility for removing vast quantities of hazardous products sold by third-party sellers on its platform.
The products in question included nearly 400,000 hair dryers sold without protection against electrocution, 24,000 faulty carbon monoxide detectors that fail to alarm and numerous children’s garments which are in violation of flammable fabric safety standards.
