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0 pointscardiffspaceman6y ago0 comments

There's a stack of transforms here: All amazon stuff -> Things that a protective agency through highly-developed intuition suspects will be dangerous -> things actually found to be dangerous.

So it's bad news that they found dangerous things amongst a category of things that we don't want to be at all dangerous (children's school supplies). It's not surprising news that these agencies are pretty good at knowing in advance which children's school supplies are likely to be dangerous.

BTW the link doesn't bring up a specific article. It brings up a list of articles.

One wonders why the press release didn't say, Wash AG indicts school supply suppliers after joint AG-DoEcology investigation?

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dchichkov6y ago

I agree. But it seems that they just did a reasonable thing - a quick search - bought products - tested - found 25-75% contaminated. While it should be zero. Yes, they did a reasonable search. But it is not like Amazon can't replicate that search.

The right thing to do here is to add automatic random sampling and control for lead/cadmium in the distribution facilities. And fix at least this bug, for real.

Link: https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/ag-ferguson-amazon...

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