Amazon sold 99% strength sodium nitrite for years after families notified the company about misuse of the product as a suicide agent, according to legal documents.
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The retail giant Amazon missed years-long opportunities to pull a chemical with a documented history of being used by young people to end their lives, KING 5 Investigators and 9NEWS Investigates found.
Amazon sold 99% strength sodium nitrite, a common meat preservative, for years after red flags came into the company about the misuse of the product as a suicide agent, according to legal documents. Amazon pulled the product from its site in October 2022 – six years after the first recorded online complaint from a grieving parent.
Sodium nitrite is used as a meat preservative for products such as beef jerky at a concentration of 6%. But Amazon sold the product at 99% purity to the public, even though at that strength …
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