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Sort by date 826 pages found matching toyota recalls- Rochester Meat Recall: E. Coli Vaccine Approval is only One Step in the Right Direction
Feb-27-08 Belleville, ON Consumers may finally receive some better protection against E. coli related illness following the conditional approval of an E. coli vaccine for cattle developed and produced by Belleville-based Bioniche Life Sciences. E. coli O157:H7 contamination in ground beef produced by Rochester Meat of Rochester, MN was responsible for six known... - Defective Products vs. The Supreme Court. They Fight, You Lose
Feb-23-08 Peachtree City, GA On February 21st the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, in concert with Rinnai America Corp, announced a voluntary product safety recall involving the defective product Rinnai EnergySaver Direct-Vent Wall Furnace, due to a potential carbon monoxide hazard. According to the alert a gasket in the furnace, fuelled by either natural... - Trucker Loses Leg and Career
Feb-22-08 Williston, ND Cory has been hanging around trucks for 25 years; driving them, repairing them, loading them. Never once did he come close to a truck accident . His luck ran out just before Christmas thanks to the inattention of another driver. "On December 22nd I was unloading the front part of a semi," recalls Cory. "We were moving on to the second t... - Bankrupt and Belly Up
Feb-10-08 Surrey, BC: Gale Winkleman and her partner (let's call him Brad) had a garbage disposal business together in Surrey, British Columbia, until 2000. Then Brad discovered cocaine. He took a lot of cash out of the business and eventually spent it on crack cocaine. Winkelman has no idea exactly how much Brad took -- in cash and crack -- because he did so many... - Bactrim Causes Third-Degree Burns Inside and Outside Body
Jan-25-08 Miramar, FL: A replacement family practitioner prescribed Bactrim, an antibiotic to clear up Vera's persistent bronchitis when the original prescription of conventional cough medicine did not work. Within 2 days Vera broke out in hives then blisters on the soles of her feet and ended up 2 weeks in the intensive care unit. Doctors say she is lucky to be... - Rochester Meat Recall: Where's the Beef?
Jan-22-08 New York, NY: In the wake of the Rochester Meat recall , things have been quiet—as they say in the westerns, "Yeah, too quiet." Minnesota-based Rochester Meat Company announced the voluntary recall of 188,000 pounds of ground beef suspected of E. coli contamination after six people fell ill in Wisconsin and California. The beef was sold in bulk... - Topps Beef Recall: Erring on the Side of Disaster
Jan-14-08 Elizabeth, NJ: Now that Topps Meat has gone into bankruptcy and the federal USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has promised to tighten up its food inspection protocols in the wake of the 21.7 million-pound recall of Topps products, it's time to ask a simple question: Was this trip necessary? The bottom line on food safety is straightforw... - Topps Tainted Meat: Different Brands Generates Confusion
Jan-8-08 Elizabeth, NJ: The trouble with branding is that you sometimes lose sight of whose actually doing the manufacturing. And in the case of the recent Topps Meat recall , various lots of potentially tainted product sold under different trademarks may have confused some consumers—even some retailers—as to the condition, and the pedigree of the alle... - Topps E. coli Beef: Almost Two Million Pounds Still In Storage
Jan-2-08 Elizabeth, NJ Topps Meat Co. may have closed October 5th, but there are still 1.8 million pounds of meat potentially contaminated with E. coli still languishing in the company's warehouses. What ultimately happens to that meat will hinge on the potential sale of the bankrupt company—its assets as well as trademarks—to a food company in New J... - Preemption - Bush Administration Backs Medtronic in Supreme Court - Part I
Jan-1-08 Washington, DC: Under the arguments made before the US Supreme Court on December 4, 2007, by Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler, on behalf of the Bush Administration, in support of the medical device maker Medtronic, American citizens injured by a defective device would not be allowed to sue the manufacturer of a product, ever. In a nutshell, the g... - American Foods Group Recalls E. coli Beef in Seven States
Nov-26-07 Green Bay, WI For an industry paying lip service to the ideals of stamping out E. coli, the consumer beef industry will once again be cowing to criticism after yet another E. coli recall surfaced over the weekend. The American Foods Group has voluntarily recalled 96,000 pounds of ground meat after reports that two people were sickened. While the amo... - Kugel Mesh Patch: Game of Wait-and-See
Nov-25-07 Boston, MA Patients with Kugel Mesh Patches implanted are the latest to be told that they will have to wait and see if anything goes wrong with their patch before it can be taken out. In what has become an all-too-familiar recall pattern, some Kugel Mesh Patches, like so many products before them, are no longer being implanted but patients who already ha... - Sprint Fidelis Recall Costs Medtronic
Nov-24-07 Minneapolis, MN Medtronic has announced that the massive Sprint Fidelis recall issued in October had an estimated negative sales impact of $130 million and cost the company $31 million in inventory write-offs and other direct costs. Medtronic announced the recall after it received reports of at least five deaths related to fractured Sprint Fidelis... - Topps Beef Burgers: Wake Up Retailers!
Nov-14-07 New York, NY Sherita Wells took her half-empty box of Topps frozen beef burgers back to the supermarket for a refund. "I told the cashier that these burgers had been recalled but he had no idea what I was talking about," says Wells. "I thought they were supposed to keep up with recalled products—it's wild that these burgers are still being sold."... - Totino's Pizza: A Slice of E. Coli
Nov-11-07 Chandler, OK Jill Mclean (not her real name) bought a few Totino's frozen pizzas mainly because she was on a budget. Turns out, a few slices of Totino's Party Supreme cost her more than she bargained for—and then some. Mclean didn't know about the E. coli pizza recall until it was too late. On October 28th, Mclean was so sick she went to ER. "... - Deadly Frozen Pizza in Your Freezer?
Nov-7-07 Wellston, OH The box may say it's crisp 'n tasty, but the potential for an unseen ingredient in your Jeno's or Totino's frozen pizza could put you in the hospital with E. coli, and has resulted in a massive frozen pizza recall . It is, in fact one of the largest recalls that General Mills has seen in years. On November 1st, the huge manufacturer vol... - Kugel Mesh Patch: The Psychological Fallout
Oct-31-07 Cranston, RI: Imagine the disconnect: you've had hernia surgery in the last few years, without complication. Things seem to be fine. All of a sudden, recalls occur concerning the Davol Composix Kugel Mesh Patch , which is followed by a phone call from your surgeon. He says you have the recalled patch and memory ring inside of you, and suggests some of t... - The Composix Kugel Mesh Recall: Information Lacking
Oct-22-07 Murray Hill, NJ It has been almost two years since C.R. Bard and subsidiary Davol, in concert with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), recalled various models of the Composix Kugel Mesh Patch. And while the plastic 'memory' recoil ring--the primary culprit in patient incident reports--has been strengthened, that doesn't help the thousands of patie... - Stand 'n Seal Recall: When Hazardous Products Stay On the Market
Oct-17-07 Portland, OR In the midst of the massive recalls that have been announced recently, proponents of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPCS) have argued that the agency works wells at protecting consumers. Unfortunately, the people injured by [ Stand 'n Seal ] can attest otherwise. They know that they would not have become ill if the product's recall ha... - Topps Bottoms Out: Lawsuits Pending from Massive Recall
Oct-9-07 Elizabeth, NJ: Two days after a class action lawsuit was filed against them, Topps Meat Company announced that it was going out of business, brought to its knees by the tainted meat recall. The company, based in New Jersey, found itself at the centre of controversy after an initially small recall of beef products suspected of being tainted with E. coli m...