Resale of Recalled Children's Products Now Possible On Line

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According to the study, during a one-month period, 190 auctions contained or were suspected to contain a recalled children's item from a target list of 141 products. On average, six bids were placed on each recalled item, with 70 percent of the auctions eventuating in a sale. Most, of the recalled items were listed for sale from addresses within the United States, with sellers from Canada, Australia, Great Britain and Ireland also represented.

"Although the CPSC is charged with notifying the public of recalled items, these results demonstrate that potentially hazardous products are still circulating online," said Gary Smith, M.D., Dr.P.H., the study's senior author and director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Columbus Children's Hospital. "A multi-front initiative to decrease the presence of hazards in online auctions is needed."

"The primary goal should be to decrease the number of units of recalled products fat large' via interventions to increase product returns for repair or replacement," said Smith, also a faculty member at t OSU College of Medicine. "By decreasing the average life of recalled children's products, hazardous items will be less likely found for second-hand resale."

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Resale of Recalled Children's Products Now Possible On Line

On average, more than two children's products are recalled each week in the United States. Recalls on children's products represent more than 40 percent of recalls by the U.S. Consumer Prod...

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