Sammye,
I‰??m not really
surprised by this. Amazon doesn‰??t do a great job of policing
its listings, even the ones that are listed as ‰??Sold by and
ships from Amazon.com.‰?? My company goes to great lengths to
make sure our chemicals go only to legitimate businesses. We
check every address to make sure it isn‰??t a residential
address. We don‰??t sell to anyone without a federal tax ID
number. We only sell through registered distributors. Yet
you can find 20 pages of our items for sale on Amazon that
we didn‰??t list there. At least whoever listed them had
enough sense to only list items that aren‰??t DOT regulated
for shipment, but there is noå hazard information or Prop 65
warning on Amazon‰??s website. And some of the listed products
cause cancer.
Without seeing
the shipping envelope, I would guess that your bottles of
sodium azide didn‰??t come from HiMedia, and they may not have
any idea how they got to you. Last year one of our customers
sent us a picture from his local newspaper of chemicals from
a meth lab, and one of them was ours with our label on it.
How did it get to them? We certainly didn‰??t ship it. Was it
one of our distributors? Was it stolen? Was it part of a lab
buyout that was then listed on Amazon or ebay or other site
with few controls? Just like the owl with the Tootsie pop,
the world may never know.
å
å
I found this article of particular interest
because in September I received a bubble mailer with 2 hundred
gram bottles of sodium azide in my mailbox sent by USPS to me
from someone in the general public asking that I, "use or
dispose of safely".å Fortunately for me, and the postal
workers, the bottles were not damaged in mailing.å
I am currently working with the USPI and the Homeland Security
Coordinator for the state to track down the sender.å This
interesting part of this story is that the chemicals were
purchased on AMAZON
(https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=sodium+azide)
from a company called HiMedia - the same as the bottle shown
in the listserve article.å These are bottles clearly marked,
"For sale in India only"
The chemical mailed to me was in what appears to be the
original AMAZON mailer and so it appears they are shipping
this chemical with no protection or placards. I am dumbfounded
that Amazon can sell this chemical and ship without warning.
Sammye
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Konstantin Josef Jire€?ek (1854 ‰?? 1918)
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Samuella B. Sigmann, MS, NRCC-CHO
Senior Lecturer/Safety Committee
Chair/Director of Stockroom
A. R. Smith Department of
Chemistry
Appalachian State University
525 Rivers Street
Boone, NC 28608
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Fax: 828 262 6558
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