Posts tagged recall

• Contaminated Hot Dogs Recalled

  David Mittleman | November 11, 2008 10:27 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Zeigler , an Alabama based company has issued a voluntarily recall of 28,610 pounds of hot dogs that was shipped to five state; Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee. An inspector in...

• Patient Alert for Diabetics Using Insulin Syringes

  David Mittleman | November 07, 2008 9:10 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Insulin users be aware--Covidien Ltd. has recalled 471,000 syringes. ReliOn hypodermic syringes, sold at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club, have been mislabeled and can cause patients to receive as much as...

• Deep Brain Stimulators Could Malfunction or Fail Under Certain Conditions

  David Mittleman | July 29, 2008 4:01 PM | 2 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  In 1997, the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of deep brain stimulation to treat Parkinson’s Disease and certain other neurological disorders. Since then, medical device...

• Kroger Beef Recall Expands

  Larry Buckfire | July 03, 2008 6:29 PM | 1 CommentDetroit, MI Category: Toxic Substances
  

  I wrote the other day about the E. coli bacteria outbreak that was traced back to Kroger ground beef. Several dozen people in Michigan and Ohio were reported ill due to the food poisoning outbreak.

• FDA Shuts Down Texas Seafood Processing Plant

  David Mittleman | May 18, 2008 12:15 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it was shutting down Hope Food Supply for its failure to take adequate steps to prevent bacterial contamination of its smoked seafood...

• FDA Announces Digitek (Digoxin) Recall

  David Mittleman | May 16, 2008 9:16 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  On April 25, 2008, Actavis Totowa LLC announced a recall of all lots of a drug known as Digitek sold under the Bertek and UDL Laboratories labels. Digitek, known in its generic form as digoxin, is a...