In total, the agency found 140 illegal products - including insecticides and rodenticides - for sale at the 35 e-retailers it inspected. The problem occurred on all types of platforms, but the majority were sold via so-called dropshipping.
"Of the products we checked, we estimate that at least 58 percent were sold via dropshipping," says Jennifer Astorsdotter, an inspector, on the Swedish Chemicals Agency's website.
Dropshipping means that an e-retailer sells goods that it does not actually have in its own warehouse, but that are delivered directly from a third party - often a trading platform outside the EU.
After review, sales of the illegal products were stopped at 33 of the 35 e-retailers.
