Defective & Dangerous Products

• Michelin Recalls Defective Motorcycle Tires

  Greg Owen | June 15, 2007 12:31 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  It is believed that there may be defective tires on the wheels of some motorcycles on the road. Michelin, the tire maker, has launched what they are describing as a precautionary recall. A spokesperson for Michelin stated that there have been no accidents reported to date as a result of the defective tires. Apparently, the recall is due to manufacturing problem.What is not helpful is the fact...

• Pet Food Recall - Judge Tells Menu Food "Back Off."

  Greg Owen | June 12, 2007 10:10 AM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  U.S. District Judge Noel Hillman has ordered Menu Foods and/or their agents to have no further contact with consumers of the pet food recall products without the involvement of the consumers' attorneys. Judge Hillman called the endless telephone calls to consumers " abusive and harassing." As if pet owners had not already been put through enough with this pet food recall nightmare. Most...

• Avandia - Doctor Reports Drug Company Threats

  Greg Owen | June 06, 2007 2:34 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Avandia is a diabetes medicine and is GlaxoSmithKline's second-bestselling drug. We know that worldwide more than 6 million people have taken Avandia or Avandamet, since 1999. Additionally, there was $2.2 billion in U.S. Avandia sales reported by Glaxo, and that is for the year 2006 alone. After 42 clinical trials were conducted, The New England Journal of Medicine published doctor Steven...

• Defective Product in the Form of Chinese Toothpaste

  Greg Owen | June 05, 2007 9:50 AM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  This is not some bad joke folks. While it is indeed bad, it is not joke. The poisonous chemical diethylene glycol (DEG), which is used in antifreeze and as a solvent, has been found in toothpaste imported from China. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an alert and is trying to prevent the toothpaste from entering the United States. A really good rule of thumb is, if the...

• Defective Drugs - Where Does Avandia Fit In?

  Greg Owen | June 01, 2007 6:00 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  The New York Post reported that in 2000 the FDA was warned in a letter from John B. Buse, M.D., chief of endocrinology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, that there was a "a worrisome trend in cardiovascular deaths and severe adverse events" among patients using the drug. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) acknowledges that they were indeed alerted about the doctors...

• Defective Product Could Cause Death

  Greg Owen | June 01, 2007 5:46 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  A California company, Hong Chang Corporation of Santa Fe Springs, has recalled a product labeled as monkfish. They fear it may contain tetrodotoxin, a potent toxin. Apparently, this particular toxin cannot be destroyed by cooking or freezing, and can result in death. Within approximately one half hour to several hours of ingesting food that contains tetrodotoxin symptoms occur. The symptoms...

• Contaminated Pet Food & Human Food

  Greg Owen | May 29, 2007 12:58 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Since the pet food recall begun on March 16, and the subsequent news that contaminated pet food had reached the human food supply, the Food and Drug Administration stated that it will test ingredients imported for use in human food. The question the FDA is looking into is whether contaminants are in other concentrates that may be getting into the pet food and/or human food. Dr. David Acheson,...

• FDA Warning -Defective Product

  Greg Owen | May 25, 2007 2:22 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Many people have had an MRI with and MRI scan comes a gadolinium-based contrast agent, which are used to enhance the quality of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first notified health care professionals and the public about the gadolinium-related risks for nephrogenic systemic fibrosis NSF in June 2006 . Information regarding those risks were updated in...

• Menu Food Sues ChemNutra Inc. Due to Tainted Pet Food Ingredient

  Greg Owen | May 24, 2007 5:45 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  A lawsuit was filed on Monday by Menu food as a result of the tainted pet food ingredient that was supplied to them by ChemNutra, Inc. Menu Foods is now asking for damages substantially in excess of $75, 000. ChemNutra fired back the claim that Menu Foods waited weeks prior to advising them of potential problems. The pet food ingredient, wheat gluten, contained melamine, which is a toxic...

• Contaminated Pet Food - What to Look For

  Greg Owen | May 22, 2007 5:20 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Today, U.S. federal officials announced that wheat flour was actually the contaminated pet-food ingredient from China that sickened dogs and cats. It was not wheat gluten or rice protein concentrate, as previously suspected.It is believed that the wheat flour was deliberately spiked with melamine in order to give the ingredient a false protein reading. A false reading increases the value of the...