Amazon tries to catch up in move to monitor chemicals in products

New York

Amazon.com Inc is developing a plan to regulate the chemicals used by suppliers, but it still lags Walmart Stores Inc, Target Corp and other retailers in the push for greener products.

That's the assessment of Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families - a Washington-based coalition that runs a programme called Mind the Store. Though Amazon is now developing chemicals procedures, the e-commerce giant fared badly in Mind the Store's ranking, which tracks how well companies reduce the toxic chemicals in the products they sell and disclose their presence.