‘They failed the families’: Amazon missed multiple chances to stop selling chemical used in suicides on its website

Amazon sold 99% strength sodium nitrite for years after families notified the company about misuse of the product as a suicide agent, according to legal documents.

SEATTLE — The retail giant Amazon missed years-long opportunities to pull a chemical with a documented history of being used by young people to end their lives, the KING 5 Investigators found.

Amazon sold 99% strength sodium nitrite, a common meat preservative, for years after red flags came into the company about the misuse of the product as a suicide agent, according to legal documents. Amazon pulled the product from its site in October 2022 – six years after the

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