Posts tagged Defective Products

• Avandia and Avandamet Raise Risk of Heart Attack For Type II Diabetes Patients

  David Lowe | May 21, 2007 7:55 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The widely used drugs Avandia and Avandamet significantly increase the heart attack risk for type II diabetes patients according to an alarming report published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The maker of Avandia (also known as rosiglitazone) is GlaxoSmithKline. The firm's own study found a 30 percent increased risk of heart attack, and turned the results of it study over to the U.S....

• Pesticide Drift Endangers Schoolchildren

  David Lowe | May 17, 2007 6:29 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The Associated Press has published a startling report about brain injury and death of schoolchildren due to pesticide spraying near schools. The report focuses on California, one of eight states that require a buffer zone around schools to protect children from "pesticide drift". There there were 590 pesticide-related illnesses at schools from 1996 to 2005, according to state records obtained...

• Evenflo Car Seat Recall

  David Lowe | May 11, 2007 6:48 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The Consumer Product Safety Commision and Evenflo, Inc. have announced the recall of the Evenflo Embrace Infant Car Seat Carriers. The recall comes in the wake numerous reports of the handle on the car seat/carriers unexpectedly releasing, resulting in 160 injuries to children, including a skull fracture, concussions, cuts, scrapes and bruises.The recalled units are described as follows:The...

• Bush Nominates Fox to Head Consumer Safety Henhouse

  David Lowe | May 09, 2007 10:32 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The Bush administration's nomination of Michael Baroody to head the Consumer Products Safety Commission is up for hearing before the U.S. Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Insurance and Automotive Safety.Baroody's nomination is being opposed by a coalition of eight consumer groups,including Consumers Union and Public Citizen. Public Citzen President Joan Claybrook explains the...

• Focus on Diacetyl and Bronchiolitis Obliterans

  David Lowe | May 07, 2007 4:33 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Academic studies have shown a strong connection between the food flavoring diacetyl and the rare but life threatening disease bronchiolitis obliterans that has disproportionately hit workers who handle diacetyl in the manufacture of microwave popcorn and food flavorings. In fact, bronchiolitis obliterans has has been nick-named "popcorn workers" disease. Flavoring manufacturers have already...

• Stronger Warning Issued to Parents Over Magnetic Toys

  David Lowe | April 26, 2007 6:45 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  I wrote last November about a recall of Polly Pocket magnetic toys, which were being swallowed and injuring children. Now, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a stronger warning to parents about children swallowing magnetic toys in the wake of reports of hundreds of emergency room visits by children, many requriing surgery, and one death caused by ingestion of parts from these...

• Nail Gun Injuries On the Increase

  David Lowe | April 13, 2007 4:33 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Nail guns are easy to use, but not necessarily easy to use safely. Today's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report issued by the Center for Disease Control reveals that over the five year period between 2001 - 2005, emergency departments saw 37,000 patients annually for nail gun injuries. This represents a remarkable surge in the occurrence of nail gun injuries, particularly in the consumer...

• Rat Poison Found In Pet Food

  David Lowe | March 23, 2007 5:01 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  It was revealed today that the recalled pet food is contaminated with rat poison. the specific substance is known as aminopterin, a drug once used to fight cancer and to induce abortions. No explanation has been provided for how the substance got into the pet food manufactured by Menu Foods of Ontario, Canada. Whatever its source, the contamination has resulted in the deaths of at least 18...

• Rat Poison Found In Pet Food(2)

  David Lowe | March 23, 2007 5:01 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  It was revealed today that the recalled pet food is contaminated with rat poison. the specific substance is known as aminopterin, a drug once used to fight cancer and to induce abortions. No explanation has been provided for how the substance got into the pet food manufactured by Menu Foods of Ontario, Canada. Whatever its source, the contamination has resulted in the deaths of at least 18...

• Jury Finds Dodge Dakota "Park to Reverse" Defect Killed Owner

  David Lowe | March 08, 2007 8:03 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Los Angeles, California jury has awarded $55 million to the wife of a man killed in an accident involving a park to reverse defect in a 1992 Dodge Dakota. The owner, Richard Mraz, placed the vehicle in what appeared to be "park position", began to walk away, and the vehicle started moving in reverse. Mraz tried to jump back in the vehicle to stop it while it was moving, but was run over and...