Posts tagged defect

• Prescriptions Killed More Floridians Than Street Drugs In 2007

  Eddie Farah | June 14, 2008 10:24 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Prescriptions Killed More Than Street Drugs In 2007 By Eddie Farah on June 14, 2008 A report released this week by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Florida Medical Examiner’s...

• The State of Florida Wants You To Quit!

  Eddie Farah | May 08, 2008 10:50 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The state of Florida is spending about 58 million to get you to kick the habit. Any Floridian who qualified because of income can obtain the stop smoking aids for up to eight weeks. Call...

• Florida Department of Health Advises FDA of Adverse Reactions to Dietary Supplement

  Sandy Grinnell | April 01, 2008 9:03 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The Florida Department of Health has advised the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of 23 cases of adverse reactions to a liquid supplement distributed by Total Body Essential Nutrition based in...

• Total Body Formula Recalled

  Jenny Albano | March 28, 2008 9:31 PM | 0 CommentsCentral Florida, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The FDA is telling consumers not to use Total Body Formula in Tropical Orange and Peach Nectar, or Total Body Mega Formula in the Orange/Tangerine flavor because the dietary supplement can cause adverse reactions such as hair loss, muscle cramps, diarrhea, joint pain and fatigue. The Total Body Formula products come in eight-ounce and 32-ounce plastic bottles and has been voluntarily recalled...

• Hillsborough County Courts Facing Severe Budget Cuts

  Brenda Fulmer | March 28, 2008 1:33 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Hillsborough County Bar members received a plea this week from Chief Judge Manuel Menendez, Jr., urging lawyers to write Senate President Ken Pruitt and Speaker of the House Marco Rubio in an effort to stop legislative proposals that would slash the local court's budget by 10%. Such a cut would result in approximately one-third of staff jobs being eliminated from the Hillsborough County court...

• Contaminated Beef Used in Hundreds of Food Products

  Joe Saunders | March 20, 2008 1:44 PM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The California slaughterhouse at the center of last month's massive beef recall now say that the contaminated beef has been used in 486 food products ranging from Slim Jim jerky to Jenny Craig meat loaf. The list of food products touched by the beef recall is expected to grow in the coming weeks. The list includes California restuarants, retailers and other purveyors of food stuffs. The...

• Lamb Battle Rattles Recalled

  Shannon Weidemann | March 12, 2008 10:40 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Baby rattles in the shape of a lamb have been recalled because a piece may come off. The recalled rattles were manufactured by Infantino and may pose a choking hazard to babies and young children. No injuries have been reported from the rattle. The recalled rattles are shaped like a lamb with an Infantino elliptical-shaped logo stamped on the front right foot of the lamb. Only rattles with...

• Chattem Icy Hot Heat Therapy Recalled

  Joe Saunders | March 11, 2008 9:47 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Icy Hot heat therapy products manufactured by Chattem, Inc. have been recalled due to consumer reports of first, second, and third degree skin burns, irritation and skin removal. The affected products were manufactured from October 1, 2006 through July 31, 2007 and distributed from December 4, 2006 through February 4, 2008. All lots and all sizes of the following Icy Hot Heat Therapy products...

• Heparin Finger Pointing Has Already Started

  Brenda Fulmer | March 06, 2008 8:01 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  "A series of independent assessments, inlcuding one by the agency's own Science Board, have found that the F.D.A. is increasingly overwhelmed by its many responsibilties and is incapable of protecting the public from unsafe drugs, medical devices and food - particularly from China." While the Food & Drug Administration continues its investigation into contaminated Heparin blood thinner...

• Two Gas Stations Fined Half Million for Shorting Customers

  Eddie Farah | March 01, 2008 11:32 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  You could say that two Kingsland truck stops were busted this month.Two weeks after state inspectors found that the pumps were shorting customers in the amount of gasoline they pumped, the fuels are now flowing after the owner agreed to pay a $500,000 fine.On February 12th there was actually a fuel pump lock down at the two stations.That was done by the Georgie Department of Agriculture which...