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• Loophole in Federal Law May have Cost Girl Both Feet

  Rick Patterson | May 19, 2008 10:09 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  You may recall the malfunction on the "Superman Tower of Power" ride at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom last June. As a result of that incident, a young girl lost both of her feet when the malfunction...

• Mouthwash Recall Announced

  Rick Patterson | May 10, 2008 11:02 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  Hydrox Labs, Elgin, have issued a voluntary recall of a mouthwash product that is believed to be contaminated with Burkholderia cepacia. Unfortunately, this particular defective product has been...

• FDA Names Contaminant in Heparin

  Rick Patterson | March 19, 2008 4:31 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  The United States health regulators have been able to identify the heparin contaminant. The culprit, over-sulfated chondroitin sulfate, was added during the manufacturing process in China. As previously reported on this site, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is slow to say this contaminant caused the deaths of 19 people who were using heparin, since they were already very ill. Although,...

• Automobile Accidents on the Rise

  Rick Patterson | January 27, 2008 6:09 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  Automobile accidents have greatly increased on Los Angeles freeways and streets according to officials. In fact, according to Francisco Villalobos, an officer who works out of the California Highway Patrol's Transportation Management Center, there were twice as many automobile collisions reported this week as there were last week. "We do see a lot of solo spinouts, people going over the side of...

• Dog Safety Sought by Apple Valley Residents

  Rick Patterson | October 21, 2007 6:39 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  The City Council of Apple Valley will hear the first reading of the new ordinance pertaining to dog safety in the community and may approve it as early as October 25, 2007. The new ordinance allows for a more detailed description of what is meant by "proper enclosure." It also bans dangerous dogs from all areas of the city except industrial zones. "A truly dangerous dog is not something we want...

• Auto Crash Involving School Bus

  Rick Patterson | September 23, 2007 7:05 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  Traffic accidents are never good, but when a school bus is involved it can be particularly awful. So many young children can be exposed to harm. In Greenburgh, New York, one person had to be hospitalized after his vehicle was involved in a head-on collision with a school bus on Route 100C. Fortuntily, there was only a driver and one student on board the bus at the time of the incident, a...

• Recall on Convection Ovens

  Rick Patterson | September 21, 2007 7:02 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has announced a recall of Cook's Essentials Convection Ovens with Pull-Out Rotisserie and Deni Convection Ovens with Rotisserie. There will be a recall of approximately 32,000 ovens according to CPSC. The ovens were retailed by QVC. It appears that the wires behind the control panel can overheat, which poses fire and electric shock hazards. ...

• NJ Judge Rules in Vioxx Case

  Rick Patterson | September 14, 2007 5:27 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  In a huge legal victory for the manufacturer of Vioxx, Merck & Co, the New Jersey Supreme Court rejected a class-action lawsuit. The company currently has close to 27,000 individual claims from users claiming to have suffered heart attacks and strokes after taking the medication. It seems the court felt that a class-action suit was not appropriate for this particular lawsuit. The suit was...

• Teenage Girl Injured in Car-pedestrian Accident

  Rick Patterson | August 17, 2007 7:26 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  In Kansas, on Wednesday, a teenage girl was struck by a vehicle while crossing a street during rush hour. "Police Sgt. Steve Thompson said the victim and another female were running south across S.W. 21st Street toward Fairlawn Plaza Shopping Center."In this particular car-pedestrian accident, one of the two girls waited in the center turn lane for traffic to pass. However, the other girl -the...

• Summit Suggested Due to Contaminated Pet Food

  Rick Patterson | May 17, 2007 5:09 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  ChemNutra of Las Vegas, the company who imported the melamine laden pet food from China, has called for a pet food safety summit due to the current, widespread problem with contaminated pet food. The company is proposing a meeting, tentatively set for July 14 in Las Vegas. ChemNutra's CEO, Steve Miller, said in a written statement "I am hopeful that those who import and use imported pet food...