Consumer Reports: Amazon updates rules surrounding recalled items

Here's the latest from Consumer Reports on Amazon and its updated recall rules.

There are countless online marketplaces you can use to buy products and get them delivered to your home, but few are as vast as Amazon with millions of items available.

It can be hard to know which products are safe and which ones could put your family at risk -- but that could be changing. As Consumer Reports explains, the pressure is now on Amazon to better notify shoppers of potentially defective, dangerous and recalled products sold on its site.

Recently, the Consumer Product Safety Commission unanimously determined that Amazon may ultimately be liable for notifying you about unsafe or defective products and providing cash refunds or replacements that were purchased through the Fulfilled by Amazon program.

The decision focused on more than 400,000 units of faulty carbon monoxide detectors, noncompliant children’s pajama sets and dangerous hair dryers sold through Amazon’s FBA program -- all of which the CPSC said were “defective and pose a risk of serious injury or death."

Consumer Reports says the new rule is good news. It’s clearly the right decision; otherwise, products that could injure or kill people might slip through the cracks. Consumers are affected either way and need the platform to step up. The sooner Amazon acts, the better consumers will be protected in their homes.

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