Posts tagged Defective Products

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

  David Rowell | October 21, 2007 7:19 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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...

• Topps Meat Closes After E. coli Contamination

  David Rowell | October 06, 2007 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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...

• Fresno Man Killed in Collapse of Trailer

  David Rowell | October 03, 2007 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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...

• Lead Paint in Dangerous Toys

  David Rowell | August 17, 2007 9:03 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Mattel, which manufactures Barbie dolls and Hot Wheel cars, on Tuesday recalled almost 500,000 die-cast toy cars with "impermissible levels of lead." This is Mattel's second recall in a month; on August 2 Mattel recalled almost 1,000,000 toys, of various product lines, also because the toys were "covered in lead paint." Despite Mattel's efforts to stop distribution of the toys, almost 300,000 of...

• More Tainted Beef Recalled

  David Rowell | October 07, 2007 1:00 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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...

• USDA Expands Ground Beef Recall for E. Coli

  David Rowell | October 03, 2007 1:00 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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...

• Defective Products Tested for Lead by County

  David Rowell | October 24, 2007 4:09 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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...

• Injured Students Sue Isuzu Over Defective Design

  David Rowell | October 20, 2007 7:07 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  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...

• Food Safety and Defective Products

  David Rowell | August 16, 2007 8:20 PM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Massive amounts of food, about $65 billion, are imported into the US annually, and the number is growing each year. The recent discovery of tainted pet food ingredients that sickened or killed some 39,000 American pets, illustrates how important the issue is. And yet, in the face of increasing consumer concern, the government is about to implement rules that will replicate and lock-in the...

• Ford Recalls Cars/Trucks After Deadly Fire

  David Rowell | August 16, 2007 9:37 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Ford Motor Company last week announced the recall of 3.6 millon vehicles containing a switch which deactivates the speed control mechanism in certain Ford cars and trucks. Although Ford says the voluntary recall was because of uncertainty about "the long term durability of these switches," an investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was underway at the time of the...