What is a pesticide product incident? Pesticide product incident evaluation

background

On February 15, 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Amazon reached a settlement agreement on more than 2,000 cases of distribution of unregistered and unlabeled pesticide products between 2013 and 2016. According to the agreement, Amazon will pay an administrative penalty of $1,215,700 and take measures to regulate and remove illegal pesticides on the platform.

Since then, Amazon has stepped up its supervision and crackdown, and found that pesticides/pesticide equipment products have huge potential violations. Since June 2018, it has been forced to remove non-compliant pesticides/pesticide equipment from the shelves. The products can only continue to be sold after they become compliant.

In January 2019, Amazon officially introduced relevant rules to regulate platform stores, and sellers selling pesticide products must be U.S. citizens.

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In April 2019, a large number of sellers were convicted of pesticide products and a large number of products were removed from the shelves.

cause

The misjudged content may contain relevant sensitive words, such as the following

disinfects (disinfection),

sterilization

sanitizes (to disinfect)

Ultraviolet lights

Air treatment units or filters

Water treatment units or filters

Sound generators (Sound generators Insect traps (Insect traps)

Products that make pesticidal claims, such as "disinfectants" or "sanitizes"

Workaround

The investment manager proposed the following solution:

1. If you do not have editing rights or cannot edit, you can use this category template to update. The data needs to be self-checked, and any sensitive words that may be generated should be replaced or deleted. Refreshing a few hours after uploading may automatically restore. If it is not restored after more than 24 hours, please contact customer service

2. If there is an edit button, you can also directly enter the edit page to modify it, and save it as above

3. If there is no edit button, you can also try to follow your own sales. You can edit the self-delivered listings in the background. If the third person cannot operate, continue to refer to the first person

The above problems are caused by the system detecting that the listing contains sensitive words and being automatically forced to be removed from the shelves. You can solve it yourself!

(The seller has personally tested it and it works. You can try it a few more times and the system will react and the problem can be solved. If it still doesn’t work, contact the seller for support.)

Pesticide Sales Requirements

First, you must comply with U.S. EPA regulations and all state and local registration requirements.

Secondly, meet the requirements of e-commerce platforms. Taking Amazon as an example, in January 2019, relevant rules were officially issued to regulate platform stores, and the rules require that stores must be U.S. citizens.