Amazon sues Consumer Product Safety Commission over recall order

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Amazon is suing the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission for uncovering the e-commerce elephantine legally liable for the recalls of hundreds of thousands of products sold connected its site

ByWYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP concern writer

NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon has sued the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission for uncovering the e-commerce elephantine legally liable for the recalls of hundreds of thousands of products sold connected its site.

The autarkic national bureau ordered Amazon successful January to instrumentality respective actions, including notifying customers who bought much than 400,000 items covered by recalls and giving refunds to those who could beryllium the products were decently disposed of oregon destroyed.

The bid followed the commission's unanimous determination past summertime that Amazon was a “distributor” of faulty items sold connected its website by third-party sellers and shipped done the company’s fulfillment service

But Amazon has agelong disputed it qualifies arsenic a “distributor” of products offered by different sellers. In its suit filed connected March 14, the institution maintained it serves arsenic a “third-party logistics provider" and truthful should not beryllium held liable for recalls of products that were made, owned and sold by others.

The committee sued Amazon successful 2021 for allegedly distributing hazardous items, accusing the institution of putting user information astatine hazard by failing to decently notify the nationalist astir recalled products that included defective c monoxide detectors and flammable children’s pajamas.

Amazon said successful its suit that it issued erstwhile callback notices and immoderate refunds soon aft the CPSC raised information concerns respective years ago. The institution argues the committee is an “unconstitutionally structured agency” that overstepped its authorization with the caller directive.

“The remedies ordered by the CPSC are mostly duplicative of the steps we took respective years agone to support customers, which are the aforesaid steps we instrumentality whenever we larn astir unsafe products,” Amazon said successful a connection sent to The Associated Press. The Seattle-based institution said it could not remark further connected its suit filed past week.

Amazon and Elon Musk’s SpaceX besides person progressive lawsuits challenging the operation of the National Labor Relations Board arsenic unconstitutional. The 2 companies initiated the cases aft the labour bureau filed complaints against them successful disputes astir workers’ rights and national organizing.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission declined to remark Wednesday connected Amazon's suit complaint. In a Jan. 17 connection astir the hazardous products order, Commissioner Richard L. Trumka Jr. said it was the CPSC's occupation to “hold companies similar Amazon accountable" and “no institution is supra the law.”