Amazon among retailers criticised over fur mis-selling

Online stores, including Amazon and Not On The High Street, have been told they must do more to stop the sale of fake fur products that contain animal fur.

MPs on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee said several websites showed a "real lack of concern" if they were notified of vendors mis-selling.

Amazon told MPs it had operated a "no fur" policy since 2014 and had barred 300,000 products that contained fur.

Not On The High Street said it was sorry fur had been mis-sold.

Committee chairman Neil Parish said UK consumers "deserve to know" what they are buying online - and called on retailers to take "greater responsibility".

The committee heard that many major retailers had no policies for contacting Trading Standards when they found vendors were knowingly or unknowingly mis-selling fur.

It launched its inquiry into real fur being sold as fake fur in February after a spate of cases in High Street shops - Tesco, Fatface and Boots among them.

Last year, fashion retailer Missguided was found to be selling pink fluffy shoes that contained cat fur, prompting it to launch an internal investigation.

Fur farming has been banned in the UK since 2000, but imports of fur from some animals, such as fox, rabbit and mink, are permitted under tight controls.

eddie wrote:

Online stores, including Amazon and Not On The High Street, have been told they must do more to stop the sale of fake fur products that contain animal fur.

MPs on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee said several websites showed a "real lack of concern" if they were notified of vendors mis-selling.

Amazon told MPs it had operated a "no fur" policy since 2014 and had barred 300,000 products that contained fur.

Not On The High Street said it was sorry fur had been mis-sold.

Committee chairman Neil Parish said UK consumers "deserve to know" what they are buying online - and called on retailers to take "greater responsibility".

The committee heard that many major retailers had no policies for contacting Trading Standards when they found vendors were knowingly or unknowingly mis-selling fur.

It launched its inquiry into real fur being sold as fake fur in February after a spate of cases in High Street shops - Tesco, Fatface and Boots among them.

Last year, fashion retailer Missguided was found to be selling pink fluffy shoes that contained cat fur, prompting it to launch an internal investigation.

Fur farming has been banned in the UK since 2000, but imports of fur from some animals, such as fox, rabbit and mink, are permitted under tight controls.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43814547

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

"Fur farming has been banned in the UK since 2000..."

Just don't tell those farmers still growing and raising their rabbits, minks, goats and sheep for their skins, that apparently they don't really exist any more..

Sounds like PETA has infiltrated the British guvm'nt these days ?

PETA  ==  "People Eating Tasty Animals"