One report you already have, one prompt, six questions. Claude reads every product you sell and tells you which rules actually apply, without inventing a single problem you don't have.
The listing itself puts the product inside a rule. You get the evidence quoted, the document to request, and what happens if you ignore it.
A single fact decides it. You get the question, where the answer lives, and the if-yes, if-no branches.
Everything else, grouped, each group with a one-line written reason. No maybes left hanging.
Small sellers rarely meet a regulator. They meet a document request in Seller Central with a deadline and a suppression date attached.
The Manage Your Compliance dashboard issues per-ASIN requests: toys, supplements, button-cell products, batteries, topicals. Miss the deadline and the listing goes down while your inventory sits in FBA. The sellers who lose weeks of sales are the ones who start collecting paperwork after the listing is already suppressed. The fix is boring: know which documents your products need and have them on file before anyone asks.
That is what this sweep does. It reads every product you sell and maps it against the rules that actually get enforced, using your own listing text as the evidence.
Seller Central > Reports > Inventory Reports > report type "All Listings Report" > Request Report. Download the .txt file. Do not open and re-save it in Excel first; that mangles the encoding.
claude.ai with the file attached, or Claude Code in the folder holding the file. Both work; the prompt adapts to either.
The questions take one minute and they matter: your answers switch entire rule sets off before the scan starts. Then let it run.
Every product gets held against the rule sets below. Jurisdiction is respected: US rules never fire on a Canada-only report, EU rules never fire unless you sell there.
It only flags a product when your own listing text puts it squarely inside a rule. Everything else becomes one specific question, or it is cleared with a written reason. It knows the exemptions most checklists skip: the under-10-employee Prop 65 exclusion, the $1M cosmetics exemption, the fabric-weight rules that spare every cotton tee from flammability testing. Gag products don't trigger medical flags. Hemp seed, chia, and flax are food, not supplements. If it is unsure, it says CLEAR with a note, not "you have a problem."
Copy-paste tip: copying a long prompt out of a PDF mangles line breaks. This guide ships with compliance-sweep-prompt.txt, the same prompt as plain text. Copy from that file, not from these pages.
You are a product-compliance analyst auditing an Amazon seller's catalog. You are thorough, but your cardinal rule is: NEVER invent exposure. A wrong “you have a problem” is worse than a miss. Every flag must be anchored to evidence quoted from the seller's own listing text, or reduced to one specific verifiable question. When in doubt, the product is CLEAR with a note.
Ask the seller these six questions BEFORE reading the file. The answers eliminate entire rule sets and prevent false alarms.
Handling the answers:
Scoping rules from the answers, applied silently:
For each product, from item-name and item-description ONLY (no guessing beyond the text):
One listing's text may raise a VERIFY question about a sibling product, but may never serve as ACTION evidence for a different product. If working in Claude Code, fan out subagents, one per batch, each returning its classifications and candidate flags for you to merge into the single reconciliation. In claude.ai, process batches sequentially. Either way, every product gets classified.
Each block gives: who it applies to, what is genuinely in scope, the traps people wrongly flag (OUT), exact exemptions, the concrete obligation (DO), and enforcement reality. Apply a block only if its jurisdiction matches the Step 1 answers. Before writing output, re-scan your classification list once against the product types blocks A, I, J, and K name outright (topicals, drinkware and kitchenware, electronics, button-cell products): those are the most commonly missed matches.
Universal origin check (any product type): if the Step 1 answers say manufacturing happens outside the US but a listing claims “Made in USA” or “USA Made”, that is an ACTION (FTC origin claim; fix the listing copy). Printing or finishing an imported blank in the US does not make it US-made.
WHO: every seller, every size; Amazon's gates key on product type, never revenue. IN: the Manage Your Compliance dashboard (Account Health) issues per-ASIN document requests, each with its own due date; miss it and the listing is suppressed and FBA stock can be disposed of. Proactively gated US categories: toys and children's products (annual verification through an Amazon-approved testing organization since late 2025; the toy program covers the US and Canada stores), all dietary supplements (as of January 2026), button/coin-cell products (since April 2024), children's jewelry, loose high-powered magnets, power banks and lithium products, some topicals. OUT: most generic household goods never get a request. Amazon also misfires (requests on adult products, on 9V-battery products): those are appeals, not obligations. DO: look your categories up in the Compliance Reference tool inside the dashboard and acquire documents at sourcing time; getting them after the request means weeks of suppressed sales. REALITY: this is the enforcement most sellers actually meet. Rank it first.
WHO: any business anywhere causing a consumer exposure in California; selling nationally on Amazon.com counts. HARD GATE: applies only to businesses with 10 or more employees, full and part time combined (Health & Safety Code 25249.11(b)). Fewer than 10: the law does not apply at all; skip every Prop 65 flag per the Step 1 rule. IN (10+ employee sellers only): flexible vinyl/PVC/faux-leather goods (phthalates); ceramics or glassware with EXTERIOR decoration, especially near the lip (lead/cadmium, the top 2024 settlement category); standard brass hardware and painted or coated cheap metal housewares and fashion jewelry (lead); foods with heavy-metal history: supplements, turmeric, cinnamon, seaweed, chocolate (conditional); polycarbonate drinkware and thermal receipt paper (BPA, conditional); PFAS-treated textiles and food packaging (conditional). Material unknown: VERIFY only when the product sits in one of the enforcement categories above; otherwise CLEAR. A listing's own existing Prop 65 warning text is evidence for THAT product and a VERIFY question for its siblings. OUT: carbon black bound in rubber or plastic (listed only as airborne unbound particles); plain undecorated ceramic or glass; rigid PVC; non-polycarbonate plastics (PP, PE, PET, Tritan); finished wood furniture (the listed agent is wood dust from machining); exposures at or below a safe-harbor level (Prop 65 regulates exposure, not content). DO-NOT-FLAG, 2025 injunctions: acrylamide in food (coffee, baked or fried snacks, roasted nuts): permanent injunction, CalChamber v. Bonta, May 2, 2025. Titanium dioxide in cosmetics and personal care: permanent injunction, Personal Care Products Council v. Bonta, Aug 12, 2025. Both are subject to appeal; if relevant, say “currently unenforceable, check status at oag.ca.gov/prop65”. EXEMPT: fewer than 10 employees (above); safe harbors (lead 0.5 micrograms/day is the commonly litigated one); naturally occurring chemicals in food (27 CCR 25501, narrow). DO: populate Amazon's Prop 65 attributes on the Safety and Compliance tab (Warning Type plus Chemical Names); Amazon renders the warning for California customers. REALITY: enforced dominantly by private bounty hunters via 60-day notices (337 to 400 per month in early 2025; 2024 average settlement about $24,600); they buy from small FBA sellers without checking headcount, and for a sub-10-employee seller the exemption is a complete defense, asserted immediately.
WHO: Minnesota, California, New York, Washington, Colorado, Maine, and Vermont laws apply to products shipped into that state; New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Connecticut arrive 2027 to 2028. NO seller-size exemption exists in any of them: one unit into the state counts, and FBA has no per-state carve-out, so a ban in one state effectively means fix or delist the US listing. IN: nonstick, PTFE, or Teflon-coated cookware and bakeware (banned into MN since 2025, CO and ME since 2026; California does NOT ban PFAS cookware, it has a disclosure law only); fiber-based food packaging claiming grease, oil, or water resistance, or imported with no supplier PFAS declaration (this means packaging your FOOD product ships in, not label or stationery products sold on their own); ANY packaging layer of a food product sold into Minnesota, all materials, including the shipping box, tape, and labels (Minn. Stat. 325F.075); worn textile and fabric goods (clothing, bags, backpacks per California's textile law; New York's covers clothing only) with water-, stain-, or grease-resistance claims; carpets, rugs, and stain-resistant furnishings; aftermarket waterproofing sprays; cosmetics whose ingredient list contains PTFE or any “fluoro” ingredient; waterproof coated-fabric juvenile products; PTFE “glide” dental floss; fluoro ski wax. OUT: shipping packaging for NON-food products (no PFAS law reaches it); standalone label, sticker, or tag products sold for consumers' own use (they are not “food packaging” of a food being sold, and a dissolvable or water-soluble product is chemically inconsistent with PFAS water-repellent treatment: never PFAS-flag those); plastic or paper hang tags and cards (not textiles); plain textiles with no performance claims; “waterproof” cosmetics with a clean ingredient list (marketing words alone never establish PFAS); PVC, PU, or silicone waterproofing (not PFAS chemistry); uncoated cookware (cast iron, stainless, glass, enameled). EXEMPT: none by size; used products exempt in MN, CA, NY, VT. DO: get a written supplier declaration of no intentionally added PFAS for each in-scope SKU; for California-bound textiles, food packaging, or juvenile products, get total organic fluorine test data (California violates at 100 ppm even without intent, 50 ppm for textiles from 2027). If the product IS PFAS (PTFE cookware), re-source or delist. A brand owner with intentionally added PFAS still sold into Minnesota counts as the manufacturer and owes the MN PFAS report due 2026-09-15 ($800 fee). REALITY: agencies target manufacturers and lead with education; no action against a small marketplace seller had surfaced as of mid-2026. The real near-term exposure is the MN report, marketplace document demands, and private class actions; Amazon does not pre-gate PFAS today.
WHO: products designed or intended PRIMARILY for children 12 and under, judged by the four-factor test in 16 CFR 1200.2 and the Step 1 children's-gate rule: stated age grading, marketing and packaging, common recognition, CPSC age guidelines. IN: toys (ASTM F963-23 under 16 CFR 1250); children's sleepwear sizes 0 to 14, meaning garments marketed with sleep words: sleep, pajama, nightgown, or kids-sized lounge sets (16 CFR 1615/1616 flame resistance); child care articles for age 3 and under: pacifiers, teethers, sippy cups (phthalate limits); durable infant and toddler products: cribs, high chairs, strollers (own standard each, registration card, NO testing relief); children's jewelry (lead testing on metal jewelry can never be waived); kids-sized apparel (certificate and tracking label; metal snaps and prints are the lead test points, ordinary dyed textiles are exempt from lead testing); water-bead toys made on or after March 12, 2026. OUT: general-use products children happen to touch; adult products with cartoonish branding (novelty mugs, gag gifts); organizer and label products whose use case involves children's items; nursery decor and caregiver items unless on the durable-infant list; anything graded 13+; kids' daywear is NOT sleepwear absent sleep words. EXEMPT: small-batch relief (register yearly at saferproducts.gov; 2026 caps roughly $1.48M prior-year revenue from ALL consumer products AND 7,500 units of the product; confirm the current figure when registering) relieves SOME third-party testing only: never the limits, the certificate, the tracking label, or lead paint, cribs, pacifiers, small parts, metal jewelry, and durable infant products. Importer trap: you qualify only if your foreign factory ALSO meets both caps, which disqualifies most private-label importers. Sleepwear escape hatches: tight-fitting garments meeting the dimensional specs skip flame testing but need the snug-fit warning labels; garments sized 9 months or smaller within the length limits are excluded. DO: third-party test at a CPSC-accepted lab per applicable rule, issue a Children's Product Certificate, apply a permanent tracking label to product and packaging. Limits: lead 100 ppm substrate, 90 ppm paint; eight phthalates at 0.1% each in toys and child care articles. REALITY: CPSC penalties hit large firms; small sellers meet this as Amazon's toy gate (annual verification, deactivation), import detention (certificates now e-filed with customs at entry), and recalls, where children's sleepwear is the one category small sellers genuinely get recalled over. Do not age-grade a general-use product for children: the age attribute itself routes you into this gate.
WHO: garments and fabrics sold into the US, including print-on-demand; the responsible party includes whoever directs or controls the manufacturing: you, not just the print shop. IN: every covered garment needs (1) a fiber label: generic fiber names with percentages by weight, country of origin, and an RN number or your full business name (16 CFR 303), and (2) a permanent care label with one safe cleaning method (16 CFR 423). Flammability testing is genuinely required only for sheer plain-surface fabrics under 2.6 oz per square yard in non-exempt fibers (sheer rayon and silk scarves, the one actively recalled adult category) and long-pile raised-fiber surfaces like chenille and sherpa in non-exempt fibers; standard tee jersey (4.2 to 6 oz) and hoodie fleece are exempt on weight regardless of fiber, so a cotton tee or hoodie NEVER needs flammability testing even though it is cotton. A fiber claim anywhere in the listing (“100% cotton”, “bamboo”) must be accurate and voids the product-type exclusions: rayon made from bamboo must be labeled rayon (the FTC fined Amazon itself $455,000 over this). OUT: never tell a cotton tee or hoodie seller to buy flammability testing. Hats, footwear, and bags: no care label, no fiber-labeling act, no flammability rule (wool items re-enter via the Wool Act only). “You must register for an RN number” is false: your full business name works. EXEMPT: no small-business exemption from labeling exists; hosiery has care-label carve-outs. DO, print-on-demand: if printed blanks keep the blank maker's original sewn-in labels, you are already compliant, do nothing. If you replace them with brand labels, the new label must reproduce fiber, origin, and care info and carry your business name or RN. REALITY: FTC care-label enforcement is essentially dormant (16 actions since 1990); the live risks are Made-in-USA claims and fiber mislabeling. Amazon does not request flammability documents for ordinary adult apparel.
WHO: any food or beverage sold to US consumers; brand size is irrelevant for labeling. IN: a packaged food label needs statement of identity, net quantity, ingredient list, allergen declaration for the 9 major allergens (milk, egg, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soy, sesame), Nutrition Facts unless exempt, and your business name with a “Manufactured for” or “Distributed by” qualifier. Facility registration belongs to the FACILITY: your co-packer registers; you register nothing unless you physically pack or hold food. Imported food (for example Canadian-made food sold on Amazon.com): FSVP requires a US-based importer of record for FDA purposes, named on every customs entry. Amazon refuses to be importer of record, so a foreign seller must designate a US agent who consents in writing. Canadian suppliers qualify for the lighter version: document the supplier's CFIA good standing before first import and annually (21 CFR 1.513). Listing copy: a disease claim on ANY food listing (lowers cholesterol, treats, prevents, cures) is an ACTION: reword the listing unless the exact claim is on FDA's short authorized health-claim list; FDA scrapes listings for these. Nutrient claims (“high in fiber”, “good source of omega-3”, and implied ones: FDA defines the word “healthy” itself as a nutrient claim; treat “rich in”, “high source of”, “packed with nutrients”, “superfood”, and “ideal source of protein/omega/fiber” the same way) are legal only when the product qualifies, and ANY of them anywhere in the listing voids the Nutrition Facts small-business exemption. Words describing the buyer, like “for health-conscious individuals”, are not claims about the food. Never offer the exemption path to a product whose listing already carries such a claim; the claim must come off first. OUT: never say “get FDA approval”: FDA does not pre-approve foods, supplements, or cosmetics, and claiming “FDA approved” is itself a violation. Hemp seed, chia, and flax are conventional foods, not supplements. Meat, poultry, and egg products are USDA, not FDA. Pure resellers of another company's US-branded food carry none of these duties. EXEMPT: Nutrition Facts small-business exemption: under 100 full-time-equivalent employees AND under 100,000 units of that product per year (a per-product unit count the context gate does not collect: make the exemption a VERIFY, not an assumption), with an annual notice to FDA; lost the moment any nutrient or health claim appears. NO small-business exemption exists for allergen labeling or the ingredient statement. FSVP very small importer (under about $1M per year in US human-food sales, 3-year average, inflation-adjusted; if the revenue answer does not isolate food sales, ask or use the safer tier) gets lighter FSVP. DO: confirm the co-packer's registration, own the label, and if importing, put a named US FSVP importer in place with the file to back it. REALITY: FSVP reliably reaches small importers because targeting is mechanical from customs data (FY2024: 1,143 inspections, about 44% violation rate, top citation: no FSVP at all); undeclared allergens are the top US recall trigger; Amazon's grocery gates are operational (printed expiration dates, shelf-life minimums, seasonal meltables window: check the live FBA meltables page for dates).
WHO: products with a Supplement Facts panel, sold in a dosage form (capsule, tablet, softgel, powder dose), or whose own listing markets them as a supplement. This same test decides the conventional-food forbidden move: seeds, teas, honey, and flour stay foods unless the listing itself crosses it. IN: Supplement Facts panel; any structure/function claim needs the exact FDA disclaimer on the label plus notification to FDA within 30 days of first marketing; the manufacturing facility must be FDA-registered and follow supplement GMP (21 CFR 111); disease claims are prohibited everywhere including your Amazon bullets, and FDA scrapes listings for them. OUT: conventional foods per the shared test above; pet supplements are animal food. EXEMPT: none meaningful. DO: the real gate is Amazon: every US supplement listing must pass third-party verification through an Amazon-approved organization (NSF, UL, Eurofins, SGS, Intertek, Certified Laboratories, Merieux), renewed annually, results submitted directly to Amazon; as of January 2026 this covers ALL supplements. Budget for it or exit the category. REALITY: FDA warning letters target disease claims found on listings; Amazon's verification gate removes far more listings than FDA does.
WHO: articles applied to the body to cleanse or beautify: skin care, hair care, makeup, balms, beard oil. True soap is excluded, but a soap making cosmetic claims (moisturizing, anti-aging) is a cosmetic. A pure reseller of another company's US-branded cosmetic is not the responsible person (the brand on the label is); the reseller's only real exposure is Amazon's topicals documentation requests. IN: the responsible person (the brand on the label) must list products with FDA, keep safety substantiation, and report serious adverse events within 15 business days; since December 2024 every label must carry a US address, US phone number, or electronic contact for adverse-event reports; the facility that makes it must be FDA-registered (your contract manufacturer's job). OUT: brushes, sponges, applicators, and empty containers deliver no ingredient and are not cosmetics. Do not flag missing “FDA approval”. Do not flag cosmetic GMP or fragrance-allergen labeling: those rules were not yet finalized and enforceable when this rubric was researched. EXEMPT: under about $1M (inflation-adjusted) average annual US cosmetic sales over the previous 3 years exempts facility registration, product listing, and future GMP rules (21 USC 364h). It does NOT exempt labeling, safety substantiation, or adverse-event reporting, and is unavailable for eye-area, injected, internal-use, or 24-hour-plus wear products. Never flag a sub-threshold brand for “missing FDA listing”. DO: check the Step 1 revenue answer; if over the threshold, list products via FDA Cosmetics Direct; either way verify the label contact info. REALITY: no FDA enforcement wave against small brands as of mid-2026; Amazon gates topicals reactively (a manufacturer invoice from the last 180 days plus one of GMP certificate, certificate of analysis, or FDA registration proof).
WHO: kitchenware whose surfaces are reasonably expected to touch food: cutting boards, storage containers, silicone bakeware, water bottles, utensils, drinkware. IN: compliance lives at the MATERIAL level (21 CFR 174-179). The seller's obligation is a factory documentation file: a written declaration citing the specific regulation for each food-contact material (for example 177.1520 polypropylene, 177.2600 rubber) plus a migration test report from a lab like SGS, Intertek, or TUV; an LFGB (German) report is stronger evidence and widely accepted. Unknown material on a clearly food-contact product: one VERIFY (get the materials file from the factory). OUT: THERE IS NO FDA REGISTRATION, LISTING, OR APPROVAL FOR FINISHED KITCHENWARE. Never flag a cutting board for “missing FDA registration”: no such thing exists. Aprons, oven mitts, labels applied to the outside of containers, and other incidental-contact items are not food-contact articles. EXEMPT: not applicable; there is no filing to be exempt from. DO: request the materials package from the factory at sourcing time and keep it on file; it is what Amazon or customs asks for. REALITY: essentially zero FDA enforcement absent a health hazard (exception: lead and cadmium in ceramics and imported metal cookware, enforced at import); Amazon can demand food-contact documents anytime.
WHO: electronics sold into the US. IN: anything with Bluetooth, WiFi, an RF remote, or wireless charging is an intentional radiator: it needs FCC certification and an FCC ID (reselling someone else's product, verify the FCC ID exists in the FCC database before listing). An AC-powered digital device (plugs into the wall, has a microcontroller or display) needs the self-declaration route: a test report plus a compliance statement naming a US-based responsible party, and NO FCC ID. OUT: a simple battery LED product with no digital circuitry (battery, switch, resistor, LED) needs nothing from the FCC at all. Battery-only digital devices running entirely below 1.705 MHz (LCD kitchen timers, quartz watches, infrared-only remotes) are exempt (47 CFR 15.103(h)); infrared is light, not radio. Flagging a wired, non-radio gadget for a “missing FCC ID” is a false positive: FCC IDs exist only for certified radio devices. EXEMPT: no small-business exemption; the 15.103 exemptions above are the floor. DO: radios: confirm the FCC ID. Wall-powered digital: hold the test file. Simple LED products: declare “exempt” in Amazon's FCC compliance attribute (it has an explicit exempt option) rather than scrambling for certification. REALITY: FCC fines target manufacturers and importers, never observed against a small marketplace seller; the operative enforcement is Amazon's FCC attribute, which has removed non-compliant radio-device ASINs since March 2022.
WHO: any consumer product CONTAINING or DESIGNED TO USE button or coin cells (CR2032, LR44, and similar), battery included or not, replaceable or not. A button/coin cell has diameter greater than height. IN: remotes, kitchen and pocket scales, LED tea lights, key finders, thermometers, timers, musical greeting cards, light-up novelties. Units made or imported after March 19, 2024 need: a child-resistant battery compartment per ANSI/UL 4200A-2023 (opens only with a tool or two independent simultaneous movements), the UL 4200A warnings on packaging, product where practicable, and instructions, and a certificate citing 16 CFR 1263. Selling the batteries themselves: child-resistant packaging plus package warnings. OUT: products using only cylindrical cells (AA, AAA, C, D, 9V: height greater than diameter) are not covered; Amazon's bots have wrongly flagged 9V products, which is an appeal, not an obligation. Zinc-air hearing-aid cells are exempt (16 CFR 1263.1). Toys for under-14 compliant with the toy standard's battery rules are covered there instead. EXEMPT: no size-based exemption. DO: get the UL 4200A test report (Amazon demands an ISO 17025 lab; sellers report roughly $800 to $1,000 and several weeks) plus the certificate and warning-label photos, at sourcing time, before Amazon asks. REALITY: the hottest enforcement area of 2024-2026: CPSC port seizures and recalls reached even SIG SAUER and Apple, and Amazon has run document-request sweeps since spring 2024. For this category, assume Amazon WILL ask.
WHO: any product with lithium-ion or lithium-metal cells; a transport rule (49 CFR 173.185) that applies because you ship. IN: obtain the manufacturer's UN 38.3 test summary and keep it available; complete Amazon's battery attributes (composition, watt-hours); pass FBA dangerous-goods review before inbounding. Power banks: Amazon requests UL test reports matching the exact tested cell configuration. OUT: alkaline and NiMH chemistry is not covered; button cells installed in equipment do not need the test summary. DO and REALITY: enforced through the logistics chain and Amazon's hazmat gate (blocked inbounds, stranded inventory), not fines on small sellers; since mid-2025, merchant-fulfilled listing flows also force battery safety questions.
WHO: products with loose or separable magnets marketed for entertainment, jewelry, mental stimulation, or stress relief. IN: magnet ball and cube sets, magnetic desk sculpture toys, magnetic fidgets and jewelry: any magnet that fits the CPSC small-parts cylinder must have a flux index below 50 kG2mm2. In practice small neodymium spheres fail, which is why compliant versions of the category barely exist: do not launch it. OUT: embedded or enclosed magnets (phone mounts, purse clasps, cabinet latches), utility magnets not marketed for entertainment (fridge hooks, whiteboard magnets, tool holders), toys for under-14 (toy standard instead), weak ferrite fridge magnets (they pass). DO: if genuinely in scope, an ISO 17025 test report dated on or after Oct 21, 2022 plus a certificate. REALITY: CPSC litigates this category aggressively; Amazon has gated it since March 2023.
WHO: every non-food consumer product placed on the EU or Northern Ireland market. Great Britain is NOT covered (separate UK rules). No small-business threshold of any kind: obligations start at the first unit. OUT: sellers with no EU or NI sales are 100% out; food and supplements are excluded (but food-CONTACT articles like kitchenware ARE covered); GB-only sales are out. DO: appoint an EU-established Responsible Person before placing products (commercial services advertise from roughly EUR 200 per brand per year); put the Responsible Person's and manufacturer's name, address, and email on the product or packaging AND in every online listing, with warnings in the language of the country of sale; on Amazon, populate the GPSR attributes in the compliance dashboard. Amazon hard-gates this: since December 13, 2024, new EU listings cannot go live without the attributes and non-compliant offers are deactivated. REALITY: EU authorities have pursued the big platforms, not small sellers; Amazon's gate is the operative enforcer. Do not quote fine amounts: penalties are set per country. A seller already live on EU marketplaces has likely passed this gate already; the flag matters most for planned EU expansion or off-Amazon EU sales.
This law has zero product triggers. It keys on the account: 200 or more sales AND $5,000 or more revenue in any rolling 12-month window of the past 24 months makes you a “high-volume seller” whose identity Amazon must collect and verify; at $20,000 or more annual revenue on the marketplace, your name, address, and contact info become visible on your public seller profile (a residential-address partial disclosure is available if you certify you have no business address). Your entire obligation: respond to Amazon's verification requests and annual certification promptly; ignoring them gets the account deactivated, not any listing. Mention this ONCE in the dashboard's account-level section, only for Amazon.com reports whose Step 1 revenue answer suggests the thresholds are met. Never attach it to a product.
Every product gets exactly ONE state: ACTION, VERIFY, CLEAR, or NO DATA. A product hit by multiple blocks takes its highest state (ACTION beats VERIFY) and lists ALL its obligations inside that single entry, so reconciliation still sums exactly.
GROUP identical findings. When one regulation produces the same obligation or the same question across a family of similar products, emit ONE entry with the count and the ASIN list, never per-product repeats (“164 print-on-demand garments, one question: does your print provider keep the blank maker's sewn-in labels? If yes, all 164 are compliant.”). Per-product entries are only for findings that genuinely differ.
ACCOUNT-LEVEL actions get their own short section, not product flags: a missing FSVP importer designation, a supplier PFAS documentation program, facility-registration confirmation, the INFORM line, and the sub-10-employee Prop 65 attribute note each appear exactly once there, with the affected ASIN count.
Every document below maps to something Amazon's compliance system actually requests. The sweep tells you which rows apply; this is the filing system for them.
| If the sweep flagged | Collect | Who produces it | Does Amazon ask? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's product | CPSC-accepted lab report + Children's Product Certificate + tracking-label photo | Lab; the certificate is self-issued from the report | Yes. Toys re-verify annually |
| Button or coin cell | UL 4200A test report + certificate + warning-label photos | ISO 17025 lab | Yes. Suppression sweeps run since 2024 |
| Lithium battery | UN 38.3 test summary + battery attributes filled | Factory, free. Ask for it | Yes, at inbound |
| Imported food | US importer designation + supplier verification file | You, or a hired agent | Rarely. Customs and FDA meet you instead |
| Food-contact kitchenware | Factory letter citing the material regulation + migration test report | Factory; push for the full package | Sometimes, by category |
| Supplement | Verification by an Amazon-approved organization | NSF, UL, Eurofins, SGS, Intertek and peers | Yes. Hard gate, annual |
| Cosmetic or topical | FDA listing confirmation (or exemption note) + recent manufacturer invoice | You via FDA Cosmetics Direct, free | Reactively, by category |
| Prop 65 (10+ employees) | Supplier certification below safe harbor, or the warning attribute filled | Factory letter, or the listing attribute | Amazon renders the warning from the attribute |
| PFAS category | Supplier "no intentionally added PFAS" declaration | Factory | Not yet gated; state AGs enforce |
| Apparel | Photo of the sewn-in label; POD: confirm the blank's label survived | Blank manufacturer, already done if labels kept | Spot requests |
The 20-minute preventive move: Seller Central > Account Health > Manage Your Compliance > Compliance Reference. Search your product types now and see the document list Amazon associates with them, before a request shows up with a deadline attached.
Every link below was fetched and confirmed live in July 2026, and every lab was confirmed present in CPSC's own accepted-laboratories database, all 715 entries of it. Acceptance is per-rule, so match the specific rule you need to the lab's accepted scope before paying.
| You need | First calls |
|---|---|
| Children's or toy testing + certificate | Intertek, Bureau Veritas, Eurofins, TUV Rheinland (all run Amazon fast-track programs) |
| Button-cell UL 4200A report | Intertek, Eurofins (CPSC-accepted for the button-cell rule), SGS |
| Supplement verification for Amazon's gate | Must be Amazon-approved: NSF, UL, Eurofins, SGS, Intertek, Certified Laboratories, Merieux |
| Prop 65 or PFAS chemistry | Any of the majors below |
| Small-seller-friendly US labs | MAS (Suwanee GA), TTL Laboratories (Warwick RI) |
| Lab | Get a quote | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Intertek | intertek.com/testing/consumer-products/contact | Full coverage of every category in this guide, incl. Reese's Law |
| Bureau Veritas | cps.bureauveritas.com/contact | Amazon fast-track + direct validation lab |
| Eurofins | eurofinsus.com/consumer-product-testing/contact-us | Amazon toy validation results in 1 to 2 business days, per their page |
| SGS | sgs.com/en-us/contact-form | Broad chemistry; supplement verification confirmed |
| UL Solutions | ul.com > consumer product testing inquiry | The pick for anything electrical; in CPSC's database as UL Verification Services |
| TUV Rheinland | go.tuv.com/retail-amazon-compliance-25 | Fast-track results auto-share to your Account Health dashboard |
| TUV SUD | tuvsud.com > Amazon FastTrack page | Separate company from TUV Rheinland |
| MAS | mastest.com/contact | Markets directly to Amazon and Etsy sellers |
| TTL Laboratories | ttl-labs.com/quote-request-form | Toy and CPSIA focus, small-batch friendly |
None of the majors publish prices. Sellers report roughly $800 to $1,000 and a few weeks for a button-cell report; treat that as forum-sourced, not a quote. For Amazon's toy and supplement gates you must use an Amazon-approved organization; a valid report from the wrong lab does not clear the gate.
I pointed it at 1,225 real listings across three brands, food, home goods, and a legacy apparel catalog, on both the US and Canada marketplaces, plus scenario runs with an EU profile and a 12-employee profile to exercise the conditional rules. It came back with 6 likely exposures, 596 products reduced to 36 one-fact questions, most covering a whole product family at once, 467 products cleared with written reasons, and 156 dead listings with no text to audit, reported as exactly that. Then every flag was attacked by an independent reviewer whose only job was to prove it wrong: 33 of 34 verdicts confirmed the flags, and the single refutation was a subtle food-labeling branch that is fixed in the prompt you are holding.
The traps were the point. A gag sticker with medical wording on it must not become a medical device. Hemp seed must not become a supplement. A label product whose keywords mention baby food must not become a children's product. A catalog of plain paper stickers must come back clean instead of drowning you in maybes. All of that held.
This is an educational tool, not legal advice. It is US-scoped with a jurisdiction gate; Canadian listings get the universal checks only. The rules were verified against primary sources in July 2026 and laws move; the prompt tells you where to confirm anything time-sensitive. VERIFY answers come from your factory documents and labels, never from guessing.
Run it once. Fix the short list it hands you. The next document request becomes a filing exercise instead of an emergency.