Defective & Dangerous Products

• Pistachio Processor Issues Recall for Possible Salmonella Contamination

  Greg Webb | April 10, 2009 8:00 AM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Setton Pistachio, a California nut grower and processor, has issued a nationwide recall of pistachios due to possible salmonella contamination. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also said the...

• Political Pundit George Will: Is He Sane?

  Dan Frith | April 09, 2009 9:55 AM | 3 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  This week I attended a lecture at a local college given by political pundit George Will entitled Lessons I learned from the 20th Century. As most readers know, George Will is conservative newspaper...

• Asbestos Problem In Washington’s National Museum of American History

  Greg Webb | April 07, 2009 9:05 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  According to members of the Steamfitters Union, Local 602, in 2007 asbestos dust filled the air of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC because contractors...

• Medtronic Heart Device Linked To a Possible Thirteen Deaths

  Greg Webb | April 06, 2009 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Medtronic admitted that at least thirteen people might have died in correlation with a heart device, known as Sprint Fidelis, that it recalled in 2007 but was still in widespread use. This number...

• Obama Advocates Food-Safety Overhaul

  Greg Webb | April 05, 2009 5:48 PM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  President Obama has promised to strengthen and reorganize the nation’s food-safety system after declaring the government’s failure to inspect ninety-five percent of processing plants a...

• Researcher Alleged to Have Ensured Positive Results To Drug Makers

  Greg Webb | April 03, 2009 1:06 PM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  According to court documents, an influential child psychiatrist at Harvard University, told drug maker Johnson & Johnson that planned studies of its medications in children would produce results...

• Medical Device Bill To Be Introduced Following Recent Supreme Court Decision

  Greg Webb | March 31, 2009 5:37 PM | 2 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Democrats in Congress are moving to overturn a Supreme Court decision that allowed medical device manufacturers to be shielded from lawsuits after the Supreme Court Justices recently decided drug...

• Massachusetts High Court Rules Non Profit Soccer Programs Immune from Liability

  Greg Webb | March 23, 2009 8:00 AM | 3 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Massachusetts’ highest court, the Supreme Judicial Court, has ruled that a young boy, whose leg was broken when a soccer goal post flipped over, cannot sue nonprofit youth soccer associations...

• SlyDog Retractable Dog Leash Recalled

  Greg Webb | March 22, 2009 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  A retractable dog leash, made by SlyDog, has been recalled after it recoiled unexpectedly and partially blinded a young girl. Dereka Williams was walking her pit bull terrier puppy when the leash...

• NHTSA Did Not Release Children’s Car Seat Crash Data

  Greg Webb | March 13, 2009 8:00 AM | 1 CommentCharlottesville, VA

  Out of sixty-one infant car seats tested, thirty-one flew off their bases or exceeded injury limits in a series of frontal car crashes conducted by federal researchers using 2008 model year...