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Re:Amazon must remove toxic school supplies, kids’ jewelry f... by skookumchuck on Friday May 10, 2019 @02:24AM (#19875511)
If Amazon is required to test, what about every small store that buys inventory? Are they required to test it all, too? Such a regulation would put them all out of business.
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Re:Amazon must remove toxic school supplies, kids’ jewelry f... by DannyBee on Friday May 10, 2019 @11:22AM (#19878602)
Regulations are all pragmatic in the end.

For example, you could say "companies that make x million" are required to randomly test and certify they did (and will be fined 200% of profit for false certification).

and then you have a small entity program where the government is doing the sampling or something.

It is surely impossible to have a one size fits all that scales from "person selling at farmers market" to "amazon"

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Re:Amazon must remove toxic school supplies, kids’ jewelry f... by skookumchuck on Friday May 10, 2019 @03:46PM (#19881568)
Pragmatic? Well, we don't have mom-and-pop toymakers anymore due to regulation.
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