Consumers depend on manufacturers and distributors to offer safe and effective products that do not pose dangerous hazards to their health and well-being, and that perform in the way the product is promised to perform. to allow Home Depot stores to keep recalled products on their store shelves. It is incredibly sloppy and lazy corporate behavior by Home Depot, Inc. Home Depot Should Maintain Customer Safety as a Top Priority In addition to paying the $5.7M civil penalty, Home Depot must maintain a complicance program to ensure that consumer products deemed unfit for the retail market by the CPSC do not remain on store shelves and are properly disposed of. Honda Mini Tillers, recalled on May 25, 2016.Lota Touchless Single-Handle, Pull-Down Sprayer Faucets, recalled on Septem.Philips Lighting Halogen Flood Lights, recalled on Septem.Technical Consumer Products LED Down Light Fixtures, recalled on Septem.Gerber Cohort Folding Knives, recalled on.Homelite Blower Vacuums, recalled on Ap.Husky Vertical Bike Hooks, recalled on Ap.Westinghouse Lighting Glass Shade Holders, recalled on Ma.Kidde Fire Extinguishers, recalled on Febru.Fiskars Bypass Loppers, recalled on Octo.Kidde Smoke/Co Alarms, recalled on Septem.Vornado Air Electric Space Heaters, recalled on Aug.Harris Products Group Welding Torches, recalled on J.
Lithonia Quantum® ELM and ELM2 Two-Light Emergency Light Fixtures, recalled on.Nest Labs Smoke/CO Alarms, recalled on.
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Pramac America LLC Powermate Portable Generators, recalled on Novem.LG Electronics Electric Ranges, recalled on Novem.Legrand Under Cabinet Power and Light Strips, recalled on September 6, 2012, and expanded on.HeathCo Motion Activated Outdoor Lights, recalled on J.Recalled items that were sold/distributed to consumers include: Hazards posed by the recalled products include fire hazards, laceration hazards, electrocution and shock hazards, and others. The items were sold in Home Depot stores off of store shelves, through sales for salvage, on the internet, and distributed through donation programs. The CPSC charged that Home Depot’s procedures failed to identify, quarantine, and prevent the sale/distribution of potentially dangerous recalled products. It is important to note that the selling, distribution, or offering for sale of consumer products that are the subject of a publicly announced voluntary corrective action (a recall) is prohibited by federal law. This agreement settles claims that that the home improvement giant knowingly sold and distributed nearly 3,000 recalled items involved in 33 separate voluntary recalls between August 2012 and November 2016. will pay a $5.7 million civil penalty for selling recalled products. The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has announced that Home Depot U.S.A., Inc.