At least a dozen families are suing Amazon over the sale of Sodium Nitrite, a household solvent which is deadly at high potency and has become a more popular means of suicide.
Two families who lost their teenagers to suicide have filed a lawsuit against e-commerce giant Amazon, accusing the company of selling so-called "suicide kits" containing a food preservative that is fatal at high levels of purity.
Two families are suing Amazon after their teenage children in Ohio and West Virginia killed themselves using a chemical bought illicitly on the website.
Amazon sold the food preservative sodium nitrite, which lawyers say has no household use at high purity levels, to people who later killed themselves using the substance, the suit claims.