Amazon acts on recall orders from the authorities in the countries and markets where it operates. Further, Amazon can also take action when it identifies unsafe products, sometimes resulting in recall orders.
This guide explains how Amazon manages product safety recalls and what you can do to both comply with these and reduce the risk of product recalls on Amazon in the first place.
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Creating a Declaration of Conformity is mandatory when manufacturing toys, electronics, machinery, PPE, medical devices, and many other products for the EU market. This guide addresses many of the most common questions about Declaration of Conformity requirements in the European Union.
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Starting in 2024, we have been flooded with questions from Amazon sellers struggling to understand what they must do to meet the requirements under the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR). In this guide, we explain how and why Amazon verifies GPSR compliance, and what you can do to avoid costly product removals. This guide is relevant both to Amazon sellers based inside the EU, as well as those in other countries.
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Amazon sets chemical and heavy metal restrictions regarding products sold on its platform. This guide is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on Amazon’s Restricted Substances Lists, which primarily concern Amazon’s restrictions for its private label brands.
The second part focuses on substances that Amazon restricts in several categories of products for all sellers, as well as regulations that include substance restrictions. You must also comply with those restrictions if you want to sell your product on Amazon.
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Certain products are subject to restrictions on Amazon. In many cases, Amazon only reflects the regulatory requirements, in the sense that certain products must comply with mandatory standards of substance restrictions. However, some products are subject to standards that are otherwise voluntary, or outright banned – due to Amazon policy.
In this guide, we only focus on products that Amazon either prohibits or restricts for sale on its US marketplace.
Methodology: We used the list of products listed on the Amazon Seller Central page titled “Restricted products” as the reference point. We have expanded on requirements that this page does not cover in detail. Notice that we do not cover all restricted products in this guide.
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Selling cosmetic and beauty products on Amazon requires that you ensure compliance with applicable compliance requirements. These cover chemicals and heavy metals, ingredients, labeling, testing, documentation, and claims.
Notice that this guide only covers requirements relevant to selling cosmetic and beauty products on Amazon in the United States.
If you intend to sell cosmetic products in the EU or UK, then you need to ensure compliance with the regulations in these jurisdictions instead. However, this guide can still be helpful for understanding what Amazon requires from cosmetics sellers, regardless of which marketplace you sell through.
Methodology: We used information from Amazon US Seller Central guidance pages. We also link to some of these pages throughout this guide.
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Selling electronics, toys, PPE, and medical devices on Amazon in the European Union requires that your products are correctly CE marked – or you face the risk of immediate and permanent product removal.
In this guide, we explain what Amazon sellers must know about CE marking, and why it also affects companies located in the UK, US and China – that are selling certain product types on Amazon in the EU.
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If you sell clothing and textiles on Amazon, you must ensure that your products comply with various rules, regulations, and standards. In this guide, we explain some of these requirements, including requirements for children’s clothing, dangerous goods, and packaging.
Also, we only considered requirements that pertain to selling clothing and textiles in the United States, and we refer to US regulations, such as 16 CFR Part 1615 – Standard for the Flammability of Children’s Sleepwear: Sizes 0 Through 6X (FF 3-71). Note that requirements in other markets, such as the EU, the UK or Australia, are different.
Methodology: We used information that we found on Amazon Seller Central Guidance pages hosted on Amazon.com (US version). We linked to some of these documents in the sections below.
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Selling lithium batteries and products that contain lithium batteries on Amazon requires compliance with various regulations, safety standards, and other requirements. These includes UL standards, also dangerous goods requirements.
This guide covers different types of lithium batteries and the requirements that apply in terms of standards. We also take a look at button and coin batteries which are covered by additional requirements.
This guide only takes requirements related to selling lithium batteries on Amazon in the United States into consideration. Note that similar requirments also apply when selling products on Amazon in the European Union, Australia, Japan, and elsewhere, although specific requirements may differ.
Methodology: We used information that we found on Amazon Seller Central Guidance pages hosted on Amazon.com (US version). We link to some of these pages, in the sections below.
We also refer to US regulations, such as 16 CFR Part 1263 – Safety Standard for Button Cell or Coin Batteries and Consumer Products Containing Such Batteries.
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Amazon takes product safety and compliance seriously. In practice, this means that Amazon takes action against non-compliant products by carrying out routine checks, implementing measures for new listings, and taking action when they receive reports.
However, Amazon is also assisted by professionals who identify non-compliant products sold on the marketplace. This can, for example, include products that are not correctly labelled.
One pioneer in this area is Florian Roth, the founder of AMZ Compliance, based in Ostfildern, Germany. In this article, Florian shares his experience in finding and reporting non-compliant products directly to Amazon – for the sake of levelling the playing field for sellers.
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