Defective & Dangerous Products

• Cancer Causing Chemicals In Potato Chips & Frozen Foods

  Greg Owen | August 05, 2008 9:04 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Potato chips in California have agreed to reduce the levels of the cancer-causing chemical acrylamide. Those companies include Frito-Lay (the largest supplier of potato chips in California), Kettle...

• Johnson & Johnson & Sandoz Recall Pain Patches

  Greg Owen | February 15, 2008 5:50 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Johnson & Johnson and Novartis AG's Sandoz unit recalled pain patches that are leaking the painkiller fentanyl. Fear of overdoses of the painkiller fueled the recent recall. This is the fifth (count them) recall of several versions of the patches since 1994. The problem is that the pain patch delivers an opiod known as fentanyl, which is highly addictive. In fact, it is 80 times more potent...

• Nokia BL-5C Battery Recalled

  Greg Owen | August 18, 2007 6:54 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Nokia-branded BL-5C battery manufactured by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. Ltd. of Japan between December 2005 and November 2006 is the subject of an advisory by Nokia. The manufacturer has stated that the affected batteries could over heat and short circuit. More than 300 million BL-5C batteries have been produced by several suppliers. This particular advisory applies to 46 million batteries...

• FDA Warns Against Use of Some Hand Sanitizers

  Greg Owen | June 15, 2009 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Clarcon, a Utah-based company, has issued a voluntary recall of various products as a precautionary measure. An FDA inspection recently found high levels of disease causing bacteria in some...

• Recall on JumpStart External Defribillators

  Greg Owen | March 12, 2009 9:42 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Welch Allen is recalling 14,054 AED 10 and MRL JumpStart exteral defribrillators made between Oct. 3 2002, and Jan 25, 2007. The announcement comes after 39 reported incidents, including two that...

• Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate Recall

  Greg Owen | July 18, 2008 10:34 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  A voluntary recall is being conducted by Roxane Laboratories, Inc. after it was determined that there was yeast present in a sampled product. The products being recalled are Sodium Polystyrene...

• More Recalled Products from China

  Greg Owen | July 06, 2007 5:44 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Of late, the phrase "made in China" makes many consumers downright uneasy. There have been so many recalled products that came from China people are proceeding with extreme caution, and who can blame them. Product recalls from China continued this week when a New York company recalled two snack food products. The recalled products were feared to be contaminated with salmonella, which was traced...

• Got Fish?

  Greg Owen | August 22, 2008 11:20 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Man says the 9-foot tapeworm he passed came from an undercooked salmon salad!!! Anthony Franz just wanted a healthy lunch when he ordered the salmon salad at Shaw’s Crab House in Chicago....

• Are Your New Tires Really New?

  Greg Owen | July 14, 2008 3:42 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  Many drivers may think they know the answer to the question "Are your new tires really new?" Even if you bought your tires as new, it doesn’t necessarily mean they are new. The tires may be new in...

• 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...