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• Are Motorcycle Accidents a Health Epidemic?

  Greg Owen | April 27, 2007 8:32 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in Asia, motorcycle accidents have become a public health epidemic. It seems that people from low and medium income families use motorcycles as their mode of transport. They even pick their children up from school on motorcycles. According to polls taken by WHO, 1.2 million people die of road traffic accidents every year, with 40 percent of the...

• Pet Food Recall Reaches Overseas

  Greg Owen | April 25, 2007 3:48 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  In what is being described as a precautionary measure, Hill's Pet Nutrition, have recalled all stock of their Prescription Diet m/d Feline dry food in South Africa. Royal Canin, one of the premier petfood companies, will also pull Vet's Choice brand from the shelves since there are signs of contamination. It has been reported that in Cape Town and Johannesburg, 19 dogs presented with acute...

• Defective Products Affecting Children

  Greg Owen | April 23, 2007 3:42 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  It has come to the attention of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) that hundreds of magnets have fallen out of various toys. Out of the hundreds of reported cases 33 of them involve a child who swallowed the magnets, which required emergency surgery. In fact, the death of a 20-month-old was also reported. All of the reported injures resulted in hospital stays, while the majority...

• Automobile Accidents and Seat Belts

  Greg Owen | April 17, 2007 9:28 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  The use of seat belts is mandatory nationwide with the exception of the state of New Hampshire. It has been noted that the citizens of New Hampshire do not support mandating seat belts, the sentiment being "Live Free or Die." However, there is more to consider. Clearly there are serious financial ramifications to the absence of laws mandating seat belts. According to seat-belt supporters, it...

• Contaminated Pet Food Recall Widens

  Greg Owen | April 16, 2007 4:46 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  It has been almost one month since the news broke about the pet-food recall. Albeit for the animals who ate the tainted food, the fallout had begun quite some time prior to the announcement. Congress has begun to seriously question the Food and Drug administration. They want answers as to how this could have happened. The reality is that consumers do not feel safe, given the fact that...

• Inmate Stages Auto Accidents

  Greg Owen | April 06, 2007 3:58 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  In March 2005, Billy Joe Johnson, 48, of Bevinsville in Floyd County, Kentucky, was arrested. Johnson was charged with assault, murder, kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment in the death of Michael Stone, 27. Michael was found shot to death on August 4, 2003. Now, Mr. Johnson, who is already facing the above-referenced charges in state court, has been sentenced to an additional five years in...

• Menu Foods Delayed Recall of Pet Food

  Greg Owen | April 04, 2007 2:44 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  The FDA claim that the source of the pet food contamination appears to be wheat gluten, which is a protein source found in many pet foods. Yet many pet owners are making complaints about sick and dying pets that have only eaten dry food, which is not yet on the recall list. The animal activist group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), claims that Menu Foods contacted Cornell...