CCPA fines Amazon, Flipkart, and JioMart for selling unregistered herbicide
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The Central Consumer Protection Authority has fined Amazon, Flipkart, and JioMart for selling an unregistered herbicide.
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- The Central Consumer Protection Authority imposed fines on Amazon, Flipkart, and JioMart for listing Cyclosinone Herbicide on their platforms.
- The product was found to be sold without mandatory chemical composition disclosures or regulatory approval under the Insecticides Act.
- Regulators rejected the argument that marketplaces are not responsible for the compliance of individual sellers.
- These companies must now cease sales of the product and conduct audits of their listing procedures to ensure consumer safety.
What to watch next
- Submission of compliance reports by e-commerce platforms within 15 days of the order.
- Potential changes to seller onboarding and product verification mechanisms at these marketplaces.
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“Sellers may submit false or incomplete declarations in order to list their products. Therefore, relying only on self-declaration is inadequate. It reflects gross negligence and deficiencies in the Opposite Party's seller onboarding procedures, product verification and content moderation mechanisms”
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…enough to merely point to contractual terms with sellers. The regulator also invoked Rule 4(3) of the E-Commerce Rules, which bars e-commerce entities from adopting unfair trade practices in the course of business. " Sellers may submit false or incomplete declarations in order to list their products. Therefore, relying only on self-declaration is inadequate. It reflects gross negligence and deficiencies in the Opposite Party's seller onboarding procedures, product verification and content moderation mechanisms ," the CCPA observed. The regulator clarified that it was not assuming jurisdiction over the manufacture, composition or scientific properties of the product - a domain that falls under other authorities. Its order, it…
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