Defective & Dangerous Products

• Hasbro Easy Bake Oven Recall

  Ken Margolin | July 19, 2007 4:50 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA

  Underscoring the continued hazards to children, created by poorly designed toys, Hasbro recalled its Easy Bake Oven. Nearly a million of the toys have been manufactured. The oven is intended for young children. It is a small plastic replica of a real oven, electrically powered, that heats up internally to as hot as 400 degrees farenheit! No surprise - children have been getting burned - and...

• Zelnorm an IBS Drug Taken Off U.S. Market

  Glenn Phillips | July 19, 2007 3:38 PM | 0 CommentsEverett, WA

  On March 30, 2007, Novartis has announced that it has agreed with an FDA request to suspend the marketing of Zelnorm which is a popular drug prescribed for Irritable Bowel Syndrome.A recent analysis of clinical trial data identified a small imbalance that was statistically significant in the number of cardiovascular ischemic events in patients taking Zelnorm. These events included heart attack,...

• Easy Bake Ovens Recalled Due To Serious Risks Of Burns And Other Injuries

  M. Brandon Smith | July 19, 2007 1:44 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA

  If you bought an Easy-Bake Oven in May of 2006 or thereafter you need to be aware of a very serious recall that has just been issued. U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has just alerted the public to a recall of more than a million Easy-Bake-Ovens due to very serious hazards it presents such as third degree burns and broken fingers to consumers. The oven being distributed as a purple and...

• Salmonella Linked To Taste of Chicago - First Lawsuits Filed

  Jamie G. Goldstein | July 19, 2007 11:53 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  Two lawsuits have been filed in Chicago relating to the salmonella outbreak at the city's Taste of Chicago festival. The festival takes place every year at the end of June and lasts through 4th of July. At least 636 people have reported salmonella infections as a result of eating at Pars Cove's booth. Additional reports show that approximately 50 cases have been confirmed through lab testing...

• Hot Dog Chili Recall Due to Botulism

  Amy Rothschild | July 19, 2007 10:44 AM | 0 CommentsCharleston, SC

  The Food and Drug Administration has issued a safety recall on certain cans of hot dog chili due to botulism. This was the first incident of botulism being discovered in commerically canned products in decades. Botulism is a bacteria that can cause muscle paralysis. Eventually, paralysis can cause a person to stop breathing and die, unless supported by a ventilator. Most victims eventually...

• Easy Bake Oven Recall

  Steve Klearman | July 19, 2007 8:14 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  What's the world coming to when Easy Bake Ovens get dangerous? This from Yahoo News:The Easy Bake oven, an iconic toy with a four-decade history, has been recalled for the second time in less than a year, government safety advocates announced on Thursday. In February Easy Bake's parent company, Hasbro Inc., recalled 985,000 of the toys because children were getting their hands and fingers...

• Hot Dog Chili Sauce Linked to Botulism

  Jenny Albano | July 19, 2007 4:06 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI

  The FDA has warned consumers not to use various brands of hot dog chili sauce because they have been linked to botulism that has sent four people to the hospital.The recall includes 10 ounce cans of Castleberry's, Austex, and Kroger Hot Dog Chili Sauce with "best by" dates from April 30, 2009 through May 22, 2009. The FDA said that it was not immediately clear how widespread distribution of the...

• Lawsuit Filed Over Salmonella Outbreak at Food Festival

  Chrissie Cole | July 18, 2007 8:27 PM | 0 CommentsSpringfield, MO

  A couple that attended the Taste of Chicago claims they later became very sick. They were both hospitalized for four days. Now, they have filed what is believed to be the first lawsuit following a salmonella outbreak at the food festival.The couple is suing Pars Cove Persian Cuisine whose booth carried hummus contaminated with salmonella bacteria, the suit claims. The couple suffered high fever,...

• 126 People Sick after Eating Salmonella Contaminated Hummus at Festival

  Chrissie Cole | July 18, 2007 6:44 PM | 0 CommentsTucson, AZ

  Over 120 people who ate from the same food both at the Taste of Chicago Food Festival became seriously ill. Nine cases have been confirmed as salmonella poisoning. As of Thursday, at least ten people were hospitalized due to the illness, said the health department.The number of reported cases is expected to increase as more test results come back. The 126 people who became ill, all ate the Pars...

• Avandia's Safety Slammed by New Study

  Jenny Albano | July 18, 2007 5:44 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Louis, MO

  A new German study, published in the Cochrane Library journal, attacked the safety of GlaxoSmithKline's drug Avandia. The study did not find much evidence to support that Avandia improved the lives of people with diabetes. The conclusion of the study was that the drug could actually more complications of the disease worse. Information for this subject was pooled from 18 trials of over 8,000...