Animal Lovers - Read This and Pay Attention...

SmoothSeas

SmoothSeas

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*cross-posting this to get as many on this as possible*

This popped up on my Facebook feed. Our household of 5 people shops Amazon and we get multiple packages delivered daily. While it makes sense to fumigate their shipping supplies, it can be hazardous to our fur babies health.

Read this and share. Like my grandma was wont to preach, 'an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.'

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It seems 'this story' came out last year at Christmas time .... and it's NOT TRUE.
Someone wants to cause Amazon unwanted harm.

In an interview with Snopes, Amazon spokesperson Leah Seay said that the company does not have a policy of spraying their packaging boxes with any sort of rodenticide or insecticide.

“Boxes aren’t sprayed for any reason. If somewhere down the supply chain are they sprayed? The answer to that is no,” said Seay. “Corrugated boxes are made of wood pulp and wood pulp binders, which is basically what all manufacturers make their boxes out of. So, we don’t have special boxes. They are essentially the same thing that every other manufacturer uses.”

Corrugated cardboard boxes are made of paper and represent one of the most recycled products in the United States, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Garbage and recycling service provider Waste Management noted that corrugated shipping boxes like those used by Amazon are made of recycled materials or lumber industry byproducts, such as sawdust. When recycled, cardboard materials are re-pulped, separated, bleached, and screened and cleaned to eliminate contaminants.


https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/amazon-spray-boxes-chemicals/
 
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Oh I hope it's not true for sure. I have a Chewy order on the way. Now I'm afraid to give them the box. Though I'm leaning toward Bonnie's post.
 

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