Archives for 2006

In February 1996, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued guidelines to help prevent children from strangling or getting entangled on the neck and waist drawstrings of upper outerwear garments, such as jackets and sweatshirts.However, it seems every week we are receiving press releases from the CPSC about recalled sweatshirts and … [Read more...]

- Click here to visit the US Recall News home page for more recall alerts -- Click here for news about the E. coli lettuce recall -In response to the recent E. coli outbreaks, the FDA has expanded lettuce recall initiatives to include spinachFrom the FDA Website:Lettuce Safety InitiativeThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) developed the Lettuce … [Read more...]

We have received a few emails asking why we have not covered on this blog the biggest recall news event of the year: The E.Coli Outbreak from Contaminated Spinach Leaves.I want to make it clear that this issue is extremely important to us. It has affected me personally, as my wife has been violently ill for over a week after eating a salad with … [Read more...]

A federal judge ruled Friday that the placebo effect is not a valid excuse to advertise a useless product such as the Q-Ray bracelet, made in Spain by Bio-Ray S.A., distributed by QT Inc. of Illinois, and owned by Que Te Park.US District Judge Morton Denlow ordered QT Inc. to refund over 100,000 duped customers for a bracelet priced up to nearly … [Read more...]

Yesterday a US Advisory Panel of 20 voted 13-to-7 that the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) conclusions on the safety of mercury-based amalgam fillings were not "reasonable," and called for more research.The US Public Health Service said in 1997 that data did not support claims that silver fillings caused serious health problems. The FDA … [Read more...]