Defective & Dangerous Products

• Pet food recall concerns pet owners

  Staff Writer | March 20, 2007 9:46 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  After a number of cat and dog deaths due to contaminated foods produced by Menu Foods, many pet owners are worried about the safety of their furry friends. A report from KTSM news out of Texas says that dog and cat food manufacturer Menu Foods has issued a national recall of more than 60 million cans of "cuts and gravy" style pet food. The recall includes cans made between December 3, 2006 and...

• Peanut butter recall shakes consumer confidence

  Staff Writer | February 16, 2007 2:31 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  With this week's national peanut butter recall by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fresh on everyone's mind, many consumers are losing confidence in brands they've been using regularly. The recall includes ConAgra's Peter Pan and Great Value (private label for Wal-Mart stores) brands sold after May 2006 or containing the code 2111 on the lid. Many schools, parents, food banks and others...

• Contaminated peanut butter prompts recall

  Staff Writer | February 16, 2007 10:46 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  This week across the country, certain brands of peanut butter were pulled from store shelves due to an FDA product recall resulting from a salmonella outbreak.Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter with the product code "2111" on the lid were recalled by the FDA after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a study that showed more than 300 people in 39 states had become sick...

• Storage Trunks Recalled by Home Decorators Collection

  Christina Cole | January 25, 2007 8:08 AM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  Home Decorators Collection is recalling approximately 500 leather suitcase trunks due to an entrapment and suffocation hazard.The trunk's exterior clasp can lock unexpectedly when the trunk lid is closed. If a child were to climb inside the trunk, he or she might not be able to open the truck from inside, causing an entrapment and suffocation hazard.The recalled trunks are leather bound and they...

• Brooklyn Express Hooded Sweatshirts Recalled

  Christina Cole | January 10, 2007 8:16 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  Seena International is recalling approximately 45,000 children's hooded sweatshirts that have drawstrings. The sweatshirts have a drawstring through the hood, posing a risk of strangulation to the child wearing them. The garments are not in compliance with federal guidelines to help children from strangling or getting tangled around the neck and waist by drawstrings in upper garments like that...

• Lawsuit over defective hernia repair patch

  Staff Writer | December 28, 2006 1:31 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  A law firm out of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, filed suit on behalf of a client earlier this month against Davol, Inc., maker of the Composix Kugel Mesh Patch used in hernia repair surgeries. The plaintiff claims that he experienced severe abdominal pain after his hernia repair surgery and had to undergo bowel dissection surgery to have the defective hernia repair patch removed.The news...

• FDA Meets Regarding Defective Drug-Eluting Stents

  Christina Cole | December 08, 2006 8:52 AM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  The FDA met today regarding problems related to drug-eluting stents.Many independent studies, The World of Congress and leading cardiologists have shown that drug-eluting stents might actually cause additional blood clots, rather than helping to keep heart arteries open. Since their inception in 2003, drug-eluting stents have been commonly used with over 4 million patients receiving such...

• Recalls Update

  Tom Methvin | October 25, 2006 2:59 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  This month, because of the length of this issue, we will list just a few of the recalls that were issued recently. I had hoped that the number of vehicle recalls would slow down a great deal, but that hasn't been the case.CORVETTES RECALLED AFTER ROOFS FLY OFFGeneral Motors Corp. will recall more than 30,000 Corvettes. Customers have complained that the roof flew off while driving the $45,000...

• Defective Seat Belts are a Big Problem

  Tom Methvin | October 17, 2006 2:56 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  The national average for seat belt use is at a high of 71% and that's very good news. The increased use of the safety restraints come after a $3.7 million campaign called "Click It or Ticket." This program used paid advertising from public and private funds that warned communities that law enforcement would be out in force looking for violators of seat belt laws. These statistics are promising...

• Yamaha recalls 190,000 motorcycles

  Tom Methvin | October 13, 2006 3:45 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Yamaha Motor Corp. is recalling around 190,000 motorcycles because the passenger seat can fall off the rear fender, federal safety regulators and the company said Friday. The recall affects XV250, XVS11, and XVS65 motorcycles from the 1988-2005 model years. The mounting hardware that connects the seat to the fender can loosen when passengers shift their weight, which eventually can cause the...