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vic (CA)
Article from our U.S. Government Products Safety Commission warnings about some faucets that have or are being sold:
[www.cpsc.gov]
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sum (FL)
Need to be extra careful buying from Amazon.
In addition to product safety issues due to lead or products built without regards to US requirements, there are also a lot of counterfeits of compliant products that are very deceiving.
For example, electrical wiring connectors made by WAGO are UL listed and compliant in USA and Canada. However on Amazon you will find connectors that look very similar advertised as "WAGO style" or "WAGO type" or even "WAG0" (with an ending zero instead of the letter O) and these connectors can be unsafe and never tested or listed and could be a fire hazard waiting to happen. So don't be surprised to find m0en (second letter being a numeral zero) or Koh1er (forth letter being a numeral 1 instead of a lower case L) faucets being sold cheap.
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ChristopherLocal130UA (IL)
I've tried to tell everyone about this cUPC compliance issue (for faucets) but customers are still like " If they're sold at Amazon, they must be certified ". I'm like, what can you expect from a faucet for under $100? Ridiculous.
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