Defective & Dangerous Products

• FDA to Update Food Safety Rules

  David Rowell | November 14, 2008 4:00 PM | 1 CommentFresno, CA

  Dismayed consumers saw story after story break in 2008 about food safety and the FDA's struggle to cope with domestic and foreign food contaminants: Salmonella, Listeria, Clostridium and other...

• Consumer Product Safety Commission Sued Over Unsafe Chemicals in Toys

  David Rowell | December 06, 2008 4:43 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Two consumer groups, the Natural Resouces Defense Council and Public Citizen, have filed a lawsuit against the Consumer Product Safety Commision, claiming that the CSPC is not correctly implementing...

• Consumer Safety Recalls for 2008 Set New Record

  David Rowell | December 03, 2008 11:14 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  A report issued by Consumers Union on December 2 contains troubling news for consumers, expecially parents. CU's report, title Still Not Safe, notes that 2008 set a new record for recalls by the...

• Dangerous Toys Recalled by CPSC

  David Rowell | November 16, 2008 7:28 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall of Swim 'N Score Dive Sticks. The toys, sold by Modell's Sporting Goods stores nationwide, are about 8 long and come in packs of 6 in...

• Salmonella Danger from Dry Pet Food

  David Rowell | November 12, 2008 11:10 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  The latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that, despite reports and recalls in 2007, eight new cases of Salmonella poisoning in humans from contaminated pet food were...

• ATV Deaths

  David Rowell | June 13, 2008 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  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...

• Mother Sues Nalgene Over Chemical in Plastic Containers

  Jenny Albano | April 25, 2008 6:15 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  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...

• Defective Products Tested for Lead by County

  David Rowell | October 24, 2007 4:09 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  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...

• Hannah Montana Boots Recalled for "Trip and Fall" Risk

  David Rowell | October 21, 2007 7:19 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  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...

• Injured Students Sue Isuzu Over Defective Design

  David Rowell | October 20, 2007 7:07 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  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...