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- buyeuropean@feddit.uk
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- buyeuropean@feddit.uk
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The sweeping new toy safety rules will also mean that all toys sold in the EU will be slapped with a ‘digital product passport’ in the form of a QR code displaying its compliance with EU safety laws.
Children’s squeaky plastic toys, trucks, blocks and dolls contain chemicals which are harmful to health, such as PFAS, also known as ‘forever chemicals’, as well as other hazardous substances like bisphenols.
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Recently, the Commission said they would take a “holistic” approach to regulating large e-commerce platforms like Shein, and Norway is mulling a crackdown on Temu, including a possible ban, over the sale of toxic toys.
A recent investigation by Toy Industries Europe into unbranded toys sold online found that 80% of toys examined by the group failed to meet EU safety standards, including products purchased from Amazon, Wish and AliExpress.
Big fucking surprise. Never trust Chinese trash, even if you do obsess over filling your home with shit that never works, never impose that shit on someone else. Neglectful idiot consumers harm the environment and society.
The fact that Amazon isn’t fined to Mercury and back for continue to sell/display unsafe children toys is mindboggling.
“it’s not us, it’s our sellers!”
Maybe I’d accept that if they weren’t gobbling an enormous percentage of every transaction and storing it in their own warehouses.
“It’s not us, it’s our business model!”
If they take a X% cut from the transaction, they should at least shoulder X% of the fine.
Let them pay the whole amount and then claim it back from the sellers.
Maybe then they’ll actually do some checking about who their sellers are…
That would even be better.
what? you think Amazon should be fined for distributing “babies first hat making kits feat. real mercury”?