Amazon is joining other retailers in banning paint strippers containing chemicals that have been linked to dozens of deaths.

In a policythat becomes effective next March, the retailing giant said it will prohibit the listing or sale of strippers that contain methylene chloride or n-methylpyrrolidone (NMP). Companies selling paint removal products through Amazon must provide documentation that confirms the strippers do not contain either of the two chemicals.

美国环境保护局尚未禁止它们，但化学品已与数十种意外死亡有关，according to a report inThe New York Times.

The EPA hasn’t acted on an Obama administration proposal to ban strippers containing the chemicals, but a growing number of U.S. retailers have been taking steps of their own. Lowe’s announced in May that it would no longer sell paint strippers with those chemicals, including such brands as Klean Strip, Goof Off, and Jasco. According to the advocacy group “Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families,” Amazon becomes the 11th major retailer to ban these chemicals, followingsimilar moves by Sherwin-Williams, The Home Depot, Walmart, True Value, PPG Paints and AutoZone。

“We applaud Amazon for prohibiting the sale of these harmful products,” Mike Schade, Mind the Store campaign director of Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, said in发布于组织网站的声明。“虽然亚马逊，Lowe和其他零售商加强了，但EPA已经拖着脚，消费者遭受了苦难。EPA无所作为的时间结束了。在特朗普EPA最终确定这种长延迟的禁令之前，还有多少人死亡？“

Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families said Amazon’s announcement follows a campaign it launched in 2017 by to phase out the sale of dangerous paint strippers. With partners including the Natural Resources Defense Council, the group organized online petitions that have been signed by hundreds of thousands of consumers and isnow pushing Ace Hardware遵循西装。该请愿书已经签署了近15万人。

Health advocates say there’s no practical reason why paint strippers have to include those chemicals. Consumers and contractors in the European Union have been able to buy strippers without methylene chloride for more than five years.

According to Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, the EPA shelved its plans for a ban on methylene chloride shortly after Scott Pruitt took over the department as administrator. Last May, Pruitt met with families of some victims of methylene chloride exposure, and the EPA announced shortly after that it would finalize its rule on the chemical “shortly,” the group said.

但细节尚未宣布，而原子能机构没有对化学液相投无行的行动。

The mothers of two men killed by exposure to methylene chloride announced in October they would sue the EPA for its failure to pull the chemical from the market, the据美联社报道。