"We’ve updated the policy on dietary supplements to meet safety standards in our store. Effective April 2, 2024, dietary supplement products need to be verified through a third-party Testing, Inspection, and Certification (TIC) organization. To ensure that your listings are compliant with our polic…

We’ve forgotten more about compliance / testing / Govt regulations than anyone at Amazon will ever know. So, no… LOL What I did learn is that Amazon is in bed with NSF and I think it makes sense to get full NSF certification for all products we have listed there now for being bullet proof in the …

[image] ASV_Vites: That would be quite unethical. And of course that has never been an issue with Amazon previously. /S It might not be Amazon “proper” but what are the odds of some off the radar ‘rewards’ to some Amazon decision makers that have influence and feel they deserve a free vacati…

There’s also the big on the radar reward to Amazon. How much did Amazon pay for NSF’s consulting services? It might be 0, or might be some $ amount, but I’m willing to bet they did not pay market value for their services. And NSF isn’t cheap.

[image] ASV_Vites: That would be quite unethical. And I will just ‘pile on’ by referring everyone to the post today by @Chimanimani and the WSJ story about ‘research’ if you missed it. Ethics, smethics. The Amazon way. https://test.sellersasksellers.com/t/wsj-inside-amazon-s-secret-operati…

[image] dwat0870: It seems that the company itself will go to just about any lengths to increase their hold on the economy as a whole. @dwat0870 I read your comment and quoted this ^ to come post @Chimanimani ’s thread as supporting evidence, but then you already did . :laughing:

For years, Amazon has rejected every industry group that wants Amazon involved considering their market size / penetration in the category. They had to get involved somewhere to take some of the heat off. NSF isn’t exactly an industry group but it’s a start.

Couple of things to illustrate how stupid (or intentionally stupid) Amazon is… This new policy - Seller is in total control. Samples aren’t coming from Amazon. If you are doing something wrong with what you actually sell but can get your hands on product / bulk that’s the way it’s supposed to be …

[image] ASV_Vites: can get your hands on product / bulk that’s the way it’s supposed to be Which isn’t exactly hard to do. All you have to do is order from a good brand and submit that to NSF as your sample. But at that point Amazon did their due diligence and can deflect liability. It’s th…

“update” via Listing Lounge post: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/3c89099d-06aa-453f-95a6-a2eea54260ab Looks like they want to continue to roll this out without additional details. Biggest pet peeve: the NSF/ANSI 173-2024 they keep quoting doesn’t exist; the latest on…

[image] VitRhea: … Biggest pet peeve: the NSF/ANSI 173-2024 they keep quoting doesn’t exist; the latest one is 2022. Welcome to the SAS! Our resident expert in this arena, @ASV_Vites , may well know more, but my best guess would be that Amazon is aware that NSF is working on an update for th…

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