Consumer Reports: Update to Amazons recall rules [Video]

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 website.

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 …