Fake fur warning to stores

ONLINE retailers must take greater care to ensure customers are not being sold real fur marketed as fake, MPs said yesterday.

Stores such as Amazon often do not have policies for contacting Trading Standards when they discover fur is being missold by third parties on the site and should put them in place ‘as soon as possible’, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs committee said.

Its chairman Neil Parish said: ‘ UK customers deserve to know what they are buying online, particularly when ordering products containing real fur that are advertised as faux fur.’