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The retail giant Amazon missed years-long opportunities to pull a chemical with a documented history of being used by young people to end their lives, KING 5 Investigators and 9NEWS Investigates found.
Amazon sold 99% strength sodium nitrite, a common meat preservative, for years after red flags came into the company about the misuse of the product as a suicide agent, according to legal documents. Amazon pulled the product from its site in October 2022 – six years after the first recorded online complaint from a grieving parent.
Read more at: https://www.9news.com/article/news/investigations/amazon-missed-multiple-chances-to-stop-selling-chemical-used-in-suicides/73-27950923-3be1-4147-b813-7ff8e874801d
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