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Third party sellers. so technically amazon is not the company selling them but some of the products shipped from amazon facilities, a spokesperson said that safety is a top priority and they remove many items. the "wall street journal"'s justin schect joining now me. thanks. amazon is not the big box retailer that people think. it's kind of as you say a flea market selling millions of third-party goods. >> yeah. we found that amazon functions much more like a bizarre or a flea market where you're buying something on amazon, but you're in most cases not buying it from amazon. more than half to ...

Listings for various forms of abuse including noncompliance before they were published to our store. lastly, justin, you think amazon is getting on the ball or a critical problem? >> amazon does a lot to try to keep fraudulent or dangerous products off the site. but you know, we still found obviously thousands of products and we're just three people in a newsroom, most of that data analysis was done by a colleague who has a computer background. it's one person finding this. amazon is one of the biggest and most successful tech companies. our question is, is there more that they could be doing ...

Dangerous. of those 4,000, you said significant number, maybe half, are toys and medications. what are the types of things we're talking about here? >> we found a whole range of products. in addition to the 4,000, thousands of balloons didn't have appropriate warnings. we found toys that had high levels of lead that had small parts that children could swallow. we found motorcycle helmets that had been recalled because they didn't meet family safety standards though they claimed they did. a wide range of products for kids and adults. >> trace: let me go back to the helmet. that was a big part o...