Posts tagged Defective Products

• Dietary Supplements Recalled

  Rick Patterson | March 02, 2008 6:20 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Palo Alto Labs, are voluntarily conducting a nationwide recall of two of their products known as Aspire36 and Aspire Lite. After the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found the products contained Aildenafil and Dimethyl sildenafil thione (sulfoaildenafil) a purported analog of Sildenafil, an FDA-approved drug used as treatment for male Erectile Dysfunction (ED). This may pose a threat as it may...

• Baby's Bliss Gripe Water Recall

  Rick Patterson | September 30, 2007 7:15 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The Department of Consumer Protection has announced a voluntary recall of Baby's Bliss Gripe Water. The FDA are warning consumers not to serve this drink. Specifically " The product is Baby's Bliss Gripe Water, Apple with code number 26952V expiration date October 2008.It appears that cryptosporidium, a parasite that can cause intestinal infections, has been found in the drink. This came to...

• FDA Issues Heparin Warning

  Rick Patterson | February 19, 2008 3:24 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning regarding heparin. At this time, Baxter Healthcare Corporation has stopped manufacturing multiple-dose vials of the blood-thinning drug. And not a moment too soon. In addition to the well-published reports of hospital staff mixing up the look-alike viles of heparin with disastrous results, there have also been reports of serious...

• Pet Rescues Suffer Due to Pet Food Recall

  Rick Patterson | June 06, 2007 11:19 AM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Pet rescues are feeling the pinch since the pet food recall began. In fact, one Houston Poodle rescue has reported that their donations are down 90 percent since the pet food recall began. The Rescue Bank in Houston provides donated pet food to non-profit, no-kill shelters. "Rescue Bank has about 30 non-profit, no-kill animal rescue and rehabilitation groups," Rescue Bank's John Kane said. The...

• Are Common Vaccines Defective Products?

  Rick Patterson | June 05, 2007 4:09 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  There seems to be a much noted trend of babies that are thriving until they get vaccines and then they just slip away. Many of the parents of these children have very similar stories, and many parents are convinced that the vaccines given to their children are defective produts. They reports include observing their children's "loss of speech and eye contact, high fever, constant pain,...

• FDA Names Contaminant in Heparin

  Rick Patterson | March 19, 2008 4:31 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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,...

• Recall on Convection Ovens

  Rick Patterson | September 21, 2007 7:02 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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 Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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...

• Summit Suggested Due to Contaminated Pet Food

  Rick Patterson | May 17, 2007 5:09 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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...

• Hertz Announces Product Recall

  Rick Patterson | March 31, 2008 4:50 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Just when consumers are trying to recover from the pet food recall, the Hartz Mountain Corporation has announced a recall on one of their products. This recall involves vitamins, of all things. There is concern that the product might be contaminated with Salmonella. This is not the first recall of this kind by Hertz. Just last November, they recalled particular lots of vitamins due to similar...