Legislation to be introduced in the state Senate aims to ban online retailers like Amazon from selling a food preservative tied to dozens of teen suicides.
, a common meat preservative linked to youth suicides across the country.
The bill Gounardes plans to officially introduce Monday would bar both online retailers and brick-and-mortar stores from selling the salt-like substance “without proof of its intended use for institutional or scientific purposes.” “They know it’s killing people,” Ruth Scott, a Texas resident whose 18-year-old son committed suicide,An attorney tied to Scott, who has filed a class action lawsuit against the e-commerce giant, eventually brought their fight to the attention of Gounardes.
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