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Despite recent improvements in safety, ATVs remainsome of the most dangerousproducts available to consumers.An incident today illustrate that danger: a 67 year-old San Andreas resident was killed in...

A mother is suing Nalgene over the use of the chemical Bisphenol A, or BPA, in its plastic containers. Nalgene Inc. announced last week that it will phase out production of its containers that...

Most consumers are aware of the tidal wave of toys and other defective products containing excessive levels of lead that have been offered to American consumers lately. As noted in a recent reportRecently recalled toys from China include 675,000 Mattel Barbie accessories, 49,000 Disney Deluxe Winnie-the-Pooh play sets and about a million Fisher-Price character toys such as Elmo and Dora the...

Payless ShoeSource, Inc. has announced the recall of about 90,000 girls' boots, made in China, because of a risk of injury due to "slip and fall" accidents. The jeweled, "Hannah Montana" engraved boots have guitar-shapped zipper pulls, which can get caught on each other as the child walks, causing the child to trip. Payless has received reports of five instances of children tripping due to this...

Tyhler Carron and Nikko Landeros are students at Berthoud High School. The two boys, both 18, were on their school's wrestling team. On January 15 thery were on their way home in Carron's Isuzu Trooper, Carron was driving, when their vehicle got a flat tire. Carron pulled over to change the flat, and he and Landeros got out. They went to the back of the car and opened the rear doors to get the...

About ten days ago consumers saw Topps Meat Company of New Jersey recall almost 22 million poinds of frozen ground beef patties, the second-larges ground beef recall in U.S. history, followed by Topps closure late last week. That recall was followed by a small recall by Impero Food & Meats, Inc., of Baltimore, Maryland. What was troubling about the Impero meat recall was that the same organism...

The Consumer Products Safety Commission on Thursday may have hit a new high-water mark for defective and dangerous product recalls based on violation of the lead standard. On October 4 alone, the CPSC announced: the recall of about 150,000 bookmarks and journals that contain lead; the recall of almost 200,000 toy key chains containing high levels of lead; the recall of about 15,000 toy...

Last week, almost 22 million pounds of tainted ground beef, produced by Topps Meat Company of Elizabeth, New Jersey, was recalled by the USDA, the second-largest beef recall in U.S. history. On Friday, the CDC announced that an E. coli outbreak in 8 states, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania, was linked to Topps Brand Ground Beef. The recalled beef...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the voluntary recall of about 350,000 children's gardening tools and chairs due to a violation of the lead paint standard. The defective products, made in Taiwan, are imported and sold nationwide by Taget, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. According to CSPC's press release, the surface paint on the toys contains excessive levels of lead, which poses...

The USDA recently announced an expanded recall of certain ground beef products due to possible contamination with E. coli bacteria. The recall concerns 21.7 million pounds of frozen ground beef produced by Topps Meat Company of Elizabeth, New Jersey.This is an expansion of a recall originally announced on September 25, 2007. The USDA issued the expanded recall because the New York Health...

Chris Beintker, 52, of Fresno, was killed Monday night when a trailer at his east-Fresno home collapsed as he was working underneath it. According to news reports, Fresno County Sheriff's Office responded to the scene, where Beintker was found pinned underneath the trailer. It is not clear whether the trailer, a jack or some other defective product collapsed, killing Beintker.For more...

In June, the Consumer Products Safety Commission announced the recall of about 1.5 million defective products, toys, for violation of the lead paint standard, which poses very serious health risks to children. The recall concerned "Thomas & Friends" wooden railway toys manufactured in China and imported by RC2 Corporation of Oak Brook, Illinois. Last week the CPSC announced the recall of an...

The Consumer Products Safety Commission has announced the voluntary recall of children's doll strollers by Lan Enterprises, of Beverton, Oregon. The strollers, sold by Pottery Barn Kids, pose a risk of finger amputation for children. Pottery Barn Kids has received reports of three serious injuries, including one partial finger amputation on a 2 year old boy. CPSC cautions consumers to...

On Thursday, the Consumer Products Safety Commission announced the voluntary recall of the "IT400 Iced Tea Maker." The defective product, sold at Bon-Ton Department Stores, the JCPenney catalog, and hardware stores nationwide, is a danger to consumers because of a risk of fire. The machine was manufactured in China and was sold between April and July of this year. Consumers should immediately...

Last year, a deadly contamination of spinach by E. coli bacteria led to the death of 3 people and more than 200 sick. Following the outbreak there were widespread calls for better testing of companies handling leafy greens. That hasn't happened, though; State inspectors in California have not been given authority to conduct better inspections, and federal inspections are at the same pre-outbreak...