Amazon responsible for hazardous 3rd-party products and recall, federal agency says

Amazon is responsible for recalling hundreds of thousands of hazardous third-party products that were sold on the global e-commerce company's website, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced Tuesday.

The 400,000 products subject to recall due to being defective or not meeting federal consumer product safety standards include faulty carbon monoxide detectors, hairdryers without electrocution protection and children's sleepwear that did not meet flammability standards.