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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a “stop sale” order to Amazon to have illegal pesticides removed from its online shopping platform, the agency announced on Tuesday.
Issued on Jan. 7, the order targets 70 potentially dangerous or ineffective unregistered pesticides and pesticide devices with illegal and misleading claims that they offer protection against viruses.
“Unregistered pesticides in the e-commerce marketplace pose a significant and immediate health risk to consumers, children, pets and others exposed to the products,” said Ed Kowalski, director of the Enforcement Compliance Assurance Division in the EPA’s Region 10 office in Seattle.
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Chad Schulze, an EPA Pesticide Enforcement Officer, displays one of the banned pesticides that Amazon was selling online. (Greg Gilbert/The Seattle Times/TNS)
EPA again orders Amazon to stop selling illegal pesticides
For the third time in three years, the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ordered Amazon to stop selling illegal pesticides on its online marketplace, saying the chemicals pose “a significant and immediate health risk to consumers, children, pets, and others exposed to the products.”
In its most recent “stop-sale” order, issued last month and announced Tuesday, the EPA’s Seattle office told Amazon to take down listings for dozens of products the agency said are potentially dangerous or ineffective, including some products claiming to kill viruses.