This is a big reason I have the rule "Never buy from Amazon anything that goes in or on a living thing."
No food. No pet food. No personal products. Amazon simply can't be trusted.
I know the violation of trust is from Amazon's "partners" but Amazon allows this to happen, and makes a profit off of it.
This feels like a non-issue, no more than knowing that the book I ordered was next to a rat at one point, which could happen in the storage area of any book shop anywhere.
I really couldn't care less.
You have a larger chance of getting rat piss off the top of a soda can.
I'm not buying from random 3rd party vendor. I said buy on amazon.com . My credit card charge says AMAZON.
If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck.....
Needless to say, I totally agree with not buying anything that goes on or in a living thing.
Nobody's counterfeiting my bulk name-brand orders of flavored almonds. Or my hair products.
Counterfeiting tends to happen with high-value electronics, or occasionally expensive textbooks. I've never heard of it happening with food or personal hygiene. I mean, I just don't think the profit margins are there.
How would you know?
Or my hair products.
Maybe not yours, but there have been plenty of stories in the press and on the internet about fake personal care products being sold on Amazon.