Posts tagged Defective Products

• Contaminated Canned Food Still on Shelves

  Greg Owen | July 30, 2007 11:36 AM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The Food and Drugs Administration are doing spot checks due to the recent canned meat recall, and they are not happy with what they are finding. In spite of the recall, nationwide spot checks show that there are stores selling canned food that may contain botulism. You may recall that Augusta, Georgia-based Castleberry's Food Company started recalling more than 90 potentially contaminated...

• FDA Issues Chili Sauce Botulism Warning

  Greg Owen | July 22, 2007 6:40 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  A new warning from The Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This time the warning involves canned chile sauce that may contain botulism. Several people, including 2 children, are seriously ill after eating the contaminated food. Those people fell ill between June 29 and July 9. The affected products are made by the Castleberry Food Company in Augusta, Georgia. Go on the link for a list of the 10...

• Food Warning Labels Confusing - FDA May Step In

  Greg Owen | July 19, 2007 6:22 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Food labels can be confusing at best. This can clearly pose a problem for consumers who may have food allergies. That is why The Food and Drug Administration will seek advice from both consumers and food makers, at which time they will consider whether they should intervene so as to prevent the consumer from using what could amount to a defective product."Consumers see the label "on so many...

• More Recalled Products from China

  Greg Owen | July 06, 2007 5:44 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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...

• Girl Loses Feet in an Amusement Park Ride

  Greg Owen | June 27, 2007 10:18 AM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  In one of the most horrific accidents imaginable, a 13-year-old girl's feet were cut off at the ankle while on an amusement park ride last Thursday in Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom Amusement Park in Louisville, Kentucky. The ride in question lifts passengers 177 feet in the air, before dropping them back down at a high rate of speed only to stop 20 feet from the ground below. One witness said she...

• Michelin Recalls Defective Motorcycle Tires

  Greg Owen | June 15, 2007 12:31 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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 Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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 Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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 Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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 Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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...