Amazon is once again under scrutiny by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Seattle office of the EPA has ordered the online retailer to stop selling illegal pesticides – a demand the agency has made of Amazon three times in three years, according to an article from Ecowatch.
The EPA reportedly presented Amazon with a “stop sale” order that targets products that were “unregistered and potentially dangerous or ineffective.” More than 100 products have been identified since June 2020, according to the article. Some of these reportedly make false or misleading claims about their ability to kill viruses. Ecowatch notes that all pesticides sold in the U.S. are supposed to be registered with the EPA under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).
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