How expired food still ends up on Amazon and what's being done to stop it

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How expired food still ends up on Amazon and what's being done to stop it
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Third-party sellers on Amazon are still shipping expired food — four months after we first reported the problem. So how does expired food end up on Amazon, and what’s being done to stop it from happening?

, a data analytics firm that specializes in e-commerce, analyzed Amazon's 100 best-selling food products for CNBC in October. Of the sellers that had over 1,000 customer reviews in the last year, 40% had more than five customer complaints about expired goods.

3PM says it noticed a pattern among 150 million customer reviews of more than 2 million third-party sellers.

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