Category: Product Liability
Throw Away That Chinese Toothpaste
Posted by Jeff Downing in Defective Products, Product Liability Monday, 4 June 2007 13:30 No Comments
WASHINGTON – The government warned consumers on Friday to avoid using toothpaste made in China because it may contain a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze.
Out of caution, the Food and Drug Administration said, people should throw away toothpaste with labeling that says it was made in China. The FDA is concerned that these products may contain diethylene glycol.
For more details go the FDA website here.
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Complete Moisture Plus Eye Drops Recalled Due to Infection Concerns
Posted by Jeff Downing in Defective Products, Product Liability Monday, 4 June 2007 13:22 No Comments
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting health care professionals and their patients who wear soft contact lenses about a voluntary recall of Complete MoisturePlus Multi Purpose Solution manufactured by Advanced Medical Optics of Santa Ana, Ca.
The drops may be a defective product and the company is taking this action as a precaution because of reports of a rare, but serious, eye infection, Acanthamoeba keratitis, caused by a parasite. The link between the solution and the infection was identified as a result of an investigation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Consumers who wear soft contact lenses should stop using the solution, discard all partially-used or unopened bottles and replace their lenses and storage container.
For more on the recall go to the FDA website here.
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Firms, Families Settle Spinach Claims
Posted by Jeff Downing in Defective Products, Personal Injury, Product Liability Wednesday, 23 May 2007 15:42 No Comments
The Washington Post reports that:
The companies that grew, processed and marketed contaminated spinach that led to a nationwide E. coli outbreak last year have settled lawsuits in the deaths of three women.
The lawyer for the families of Ruby Trautz, 81, of Bellevue, Neb.; Betty Howard, 83, of Richland, Wash.; and June Dunning, 86, of Hagerstown, said the women died after eating fresh spinach bagged under the Dole label.
“They just didn’t die immediately after eating it, but they got sick,” said Bill Marler. “But there’s no question that it came from Dole baby spinach, or else there wouldn’t have been a settlement.”
Federal officials announced a recall of bagged fresh spinach last September, as nearly 200 people were sickened after eating the leafy greens processed by Natural Selections LLC under a number of labels, including Dole.
Inspectors eventually traced the E. coli strain to cattle or wild pig feces found in the San Benito County spinach fields of Mission Organics, which grew the spinach.
Terms of the settlements were not disclosed.
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