Posts tagged Defective Products

• Children's Necklace Recalled for Lead Poisoning

  Christina Cole | May 04, 2007 2:01 AM | 1 CommentTampa Bay, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The Oriental Trading Company, in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, is volunarily recalling 132,000 Children's Religious Fish Necklaces because they contain high levels of lead. Lead is toxic if ingested by small children and can cause serious health effects.The recalled necklaces hang from a black cord and have a silver fish pendant. The necklaces were sold through...

• Indoor Tanning Can Give You More Than You Bargain For

  Bob Carroll | August 14, 2006 5:37 PM | 1 CommentTampa Bay, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  You may want to think more than twice before you head to the tanning salon. The New York Times reports: In the last two years, the World Health Organization, the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Dermatology have labeled tanning beds as the health-peril equivalent of cigarettes. Skin Cancer Is Up; Tanning Industry a Target "If adults want to make the decision to use...

• Florida's Eyes Have It - The ReNu Infection

  Bob Carroll | April 19, 2006 4:10 PM | 1 CommentTampa Bay, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Florida may be leading the nation in the number of people complaining of experiencing eye problems as a result of using ReNu with MoistureLoc contact lens solution. That is the word from the Miami Herald today. Attorneys throughout the state are receiving calls from worried contact lens wearers who suspect that they may have the fungal infection that has been associated with the Bausch & Lomb...

• FDA To Monitor Medical Device Use More Closely

  Bob Carroll | February 10, 2006 6:09 AM | 1 CommentTampa Bay, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The Daily Health Policy Report from the Kaiser Network focuses on the need for increased vigilance of the performance of medical devices, such as the Guidant cardiovascular defibrillators, after they are introduced into the market. When the market includes my body I say bring on the vigilance. FDA officials on Thursday held a "rare media briefing" to detail "problems they face in monitoring"...

• Bone Graft Not Screened For Infections

  Bob Carroll | January 05, 2006 7:07 AM | 1 CommentTampa Bay, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  A woman has just discovered she has syphilis a month after her hospital told her that tissue used in her bone graft may not have been screened for infectious disease. The full story is reported by Newsday. This New York story may well reach into Florida.In October, the FDA notified hospitals across the country, including North Shore LIJ, about allegations that Biomedical Tissue Services of...

• Furniture Tipover Causes 10,000 Injuries And Deaths A Year

  Bob Carroll | September 20, 2005 6:13 AM | 1 CommentTampa Bay, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) estimates that "8,000 to 10,000 victims are treated annually in U.S. hospital emergency rooms for injuries associated with the tipover of furniture. CPSC also receives reports of about 6 deaths each year. The majority of these injuries and deaths are to children."There are voluntary standards that apply to the children's furniture manufacturing...

• Defective Product Accountability for Foreign Manufacturers

  Joe Saunders | September 14, 2009 8:44 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The Foreign Manufacturers Legal Accountability Act of 2009 (S. 1606) is a good consumer protection bill that's been introduced in the US Senate by Senators Dick Durbin, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Jeff...

• Hillsborough County Courts Facing Severe Budget Cuts

  Brenda Fulmer | March 28, 2008 1:33 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Hillsborough County Bar members received a plea this week from Chief Judge Manuel Menendez, Jr., urging lawyers to write Senate President Ken Pruitt and Speaker of the House Marco Rubio in an effort to stop legislative proposals that would slash the local court's budget by 10%. Such a cut would result in approximately one-third of staff jobs being eliminated from the Hillsborough County court...

• Lamb Battle Rattles Recalled

  Shannon Weidemann | March 12, 2008 10:40 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Baby rattles in the shape of a lamb have been recalled because a piece may come off. The recalled rattles were manufactured by Infantino and may pose a choking hazard to babies and young children. No injuries have been reported from the rattle. The recalled rattles are shaped like a lamb with an Infantino elliptical-shaped logo stamped on the front right foot of the lamb. Only rattles with...

• Heparin Finger Pointing Has Already Started

  Brenda Fulmer | March 06, 2008 8:01 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  "A series of independent assessments, inlcuding one by the agency's own Science Board, have found that the F.D.A. is increasingly overwhelmed by its many responsibilties and is incapable of protecting the public from unsafe drugs, medical devices and food - particularly from China." While the Food & Drug Administration continues its investigation into contaminated Heparin blood thinner...