Defective & Dangerous Products

• Salmonella Contamination Goes Globel

  Greg Owen | February 27, 2007 1:19 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  It has been widely reported that the particular peanut butter containing Salmonella that has been found in 41 of the 50 U.S. states was also sold in more than 60 other countries on three other continents and islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific, according to the manufacturer. Some of those sales were in Europe, South America, Africa, Brazil, Belize, British Virgin Islands, U. S. Virgin...

• FDA Widens Salmonella Warning

  Rick Patterson | February 27, 2007 12:09 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  The warning, with respect to which peanut butter to discard, has just been widened by The U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Earlier in the investigation, the agency said that certain batches of the Peter Pan and Wal-Mart's Great Value brand peanut butter containing the product code beginning with 2111 might contain Salmonella and should be discarded. Of late, the FDA feels that all Peter Pan...

• Salmonella Contamination

  Susy Owen | February 27, 2007 11:47 AM | 0 CommentsSanta Clarita, CA

  A number of lawsuits have been filed against ConAgra in several states, some by individuals, and others as class-action cases. New cases are continuing to come to light. Many consumers of the tainted products find themselves wondering if they need to have kept the jar of Peter Pan or Great Value peanut butter from which they ate. In order to file a lawsuit in the Salmonella tainted peanut butter...

• First Deaths Reported as Possibly Linked to Salmonella Tainted Peanut Butter

  Jack Landskroner | February 27, 2007 10:02 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  InjuryBoard Attorney Gary McCallister has recently blogged on the first reports of deaths possibly linked to the salmonella contamination of Peter Pan Peanut Butter. No deaths have been reported as of yet in Ohio. State health officials say seven Ohio cases so far are part of the national salmonella outbreak linked to peanut butter. There has been one case each reported from Cuyahoga, Franklin,...

• Jury Finds U-Haul Tow Dolly Defective and Unreasonably Dangerous

  David Lowe | February 27, 2007 6:51 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  A federal court jury in Louisville, Kentucky awarded $10.4 million to a 25 year old Florida woman and her family for injuries sustained when their SUV pulling a U-Haul International, Inc. tow dolly jackknifed and overturned, rendering the woman paraplegic.The Burke family was moving from Indianapolis to Florida to start a new life and was driving though Kentucky pulling a 1999 Ford Contour on a...

• Rats Run Wild At NY Taco Bell / Pizza Hut

  IB Contributor | February 27, 2007 12:29 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  As seen on TV.The national hysteria over unsanitary conditions in our country's restaurants and markets continued this week when television stations captured footage of shrieking onlookers as they saw numerous rats scurrying around a closed Taco Bell/Pizza Hut restaurant in Greenwich Village Friday morning.The restaurant, near New York University has been cited as recently as two months ago for...

• Link Between MRI Dye and Skin Disease

  Jamie Sheller | February 26, 2007 7:49 PM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  There has been a link discovered between a metallic dye used as a contrasting agent in MRI scans and a dangerous skin disease. Patients with advanced kidney disease, who have had an MRI, are susceptible to the disease called nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy. The disease is also called nephrogenic systemic fibrosis and it causes burning and itching, possibly leading to discoloration and...

• Pennsylvania Woman Dies of Salmonella

  Jamie G. Goldstein | February 26, 2007 7:29 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  It is believed that a Pennsylvania woman died in January as a result of being infected with salmonella after eating tainted peanut butter. The peanut butter is part of a recent recall of ConAgra peanut butter. This is not the first death that is believed to be related to the peanut butter. A family recently came forward in Illinois stating that they believe their family member also died from...

• Volkswagen Recalling Vehicles for Faulty Break Lights

  Christina Cole | February 26, 2007 6:43 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Volkswagen is recalling approximately 790,000 vehicles because of defective break lights.The vehicles included in the recall, in the United States, are New Beetles, Jettas, Golf/GTIs and R32s, which also include the 4th generation 1999-2005 Jetta Sedans, 2001-2005 Jetta Wagons, 1998-2007 New Beatle 2003-2007 New Beetle...

• Overuse of Antibiotics May Lead to Creation of Superbugs

  Scott Smith | February 26, 2007 4:47 PM | 0 CommentsColumbus, OH

  New strains of superbugs have proven resistant to those exposed to common macrolide antibiotics used to treat respiratory infections. Professor Herman Goossens of University Hospital in Antwerp Belgium showed ingestion of even a single course of this specific antibiotic can lead to a buildup in resistance resulting in mutations for superbugs resulting in personal injury or death. Scientists...