Amazon can be sued for failing to warn customers that some products its sells may contain toxic substances like mercury, the California Supreme Court ruled.
skin-lightening creams to be sold on its website despite being aware of concerns about toxic mercury levels in the such creams.The suit alleged that Amazon sold some of the products produced by third parties that contained mercury levels that were thousands of times the U.S.
federal legal limit.Amazon boxes are seen stacked for delivery in the Manhattan borough of New York City.A judge dismissed the lawsuit in 2019 saying Amazon was protected by a section of the federal Communications Decency Act that shields websites from liability for content posted by other parties.
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