Posts tagged Defective Products

• Contaminated Pet Food Recall Widens

  Greg Owen | April 16, 2007 4:46 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA 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...

• Menu Foods Delayed Recall of Pet Food

  Greg Owen | April 04, 2007 2:44 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA 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...

• Pet Food Recall Now Extends to Dry Food

  Greg Owen | March 30, 2007 5:31 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  You are probably well aware that there have been widespread feelings of panic among pet owners all across this country as a result of the huge pet food recall. Just when you might think things are under control to some small degree, the pet food recall has widened. The Hills Pet Nutrition recalled Prescription Diet m/d Feline Dry food. DRY FOOD! Were we not just told that was safe to use. No...

• Tainted Pet Food Recall Expands

  Greg Owen | March 26, 2007 11:49 AM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Last week there were 95 brand names of pet food recalled - 53 dog food brands and 42 cat food brands. This week, the pet food manufacturer, Menu Foods, has requested that stores carrying pet food remove all of the wet pet food items, regardless of the date code, as a precautionary measure. Animals are experiencing kidney failure and death after ingesting the tainted pet food. It is believed...

• Rat Poisoin Found in Tainted Pet Food

  Greg Owen | March 23, 2007 11:52 AM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  It was announced today that rat poison was found in the recalled pet food that unsuspecting pet owners have been feeding their faithful friends. Although, it is still unknown to scientists and state officials just how the rat poison got there. According to Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker " the toxin was identified as Aminopterin, which is used to kill rats in some countries."...

• Tainted Pet Food Recalled

  Greg Owen | March 21, 2007 3:17 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Menu Foods, the Canada-based manufacturer of wet pet food products sold by supermarkets, mass retailers and pet stores, have ordered a pet food recall. They did so after they received notice that some pet foods are responsible for causing kidney failure and deaths in both dogs and cats. At last count, 14 animals have died as a result of eating the recalled pet food. It appears that the recall...

• Salmonella Contamination Goes Globel

  Greg Owen | February 27, 2007 1:19 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  It has been widely reported that the particular peanut butter containing Salmonella that has been found in 41 of the 50 U.S. states was also sold in more than 60 other countries on three other continents and islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific, according to the manufacturer. Some of those sales were in Europe, South America, Africa, Brazil, Belize, British Virgin Islands, U. S. Virgin...

• Salmonella: What is it?

  Greg Owen | February 22, 2007 2:51 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Salmonellosis appears to be on the rise in the United States, particularly in the last ten years. With recent recalls on products that are feared to be contaminated with Salmonella, many people may be wondering what the exact nature of Salmonella is. According to the dictionary, "salmonella is any of several rod-shaped, facultatively anaerobic bacteria of the genus Salmonella, as S. typhosa,...

• Salmonella Contamination Proves Costly

  Greg Owen | February 21, 2007 12:56 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Conagra Foods - they make everything from Banquet products, Chief Boyardee and Egg Beaters- estimate that their nationwide recall of peanut butter will cost them in the neighborhood of $50 to $60 million. Last week they announced that they would voluntarily recall Peter Pan Peanut Butter and Great Value Peanut Butter Products beginning with Product Code 2111. They fear possible salmonella...

• Defective Product Complaints

  Greg Owen | January 26, 2007 4:50 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Attorneys and their clients who find themselves in consumer lawsuits, scored a victory on Thursday. The state Supreme Court ruled that lawyers who file class-action suits are entitled to know the names of customers who have complained about those products, unless there is an objection to that disclosure by the customers. Lawyers may want to contact people who have made prior complaints and/or...