Food & Drink
FinanceOngoing salmonella outbreak leads to egg recall
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010A national outbreak of salmonella in eggs that has sickened hundreds of people since May appears to be an ongoing problem, according to experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The problem has been traced to in-shell eggs from Wright County Egg in Galt, Iowa, which has now launched a recall. The Associated [...]
Kellogg Blames Packaging Chemical for Cereal Recall
Thursday, July 15th, 2010Chemicals in our packaged food? Say it isn’t so. I only wish I could be shocked. Kellogg Co. said Wednesday that higher-than-normal amounts of certain chemicals in its package liners caused the unusual smell and flavor that prompted a recall of 28 million boxes of its cereal in late June. The company recalled Apple Jacks, [...]
Five lots of Benadryl, Tylenol added to drug recall
Thursday, June 17th, 2010The government will ban cigarettes and throw people in jail for possessing marijuana, but they won’t prosecute drug companies for continuously harming the US population, despite recall after recall and death after death. Ain’t America something? Here’s the latest recall news from your pushers. The maker of Benadryl and Tylenol has added five lots of [...]
Lettuce Recall Expands to Tennessee
Thursday, May 13th, 2010An outbreak of E. coli poisoning has expanded to Tennessee, where another person has been sickened after eating romaine lettuce grown on an Arizona farm. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say there are 23 confirmed cases of E. coli and seven probable cases connected to the this lettuce. 19 had been confirmed [...]
Government orders recall of 1.2 million high chairs
Thursday, March 18th, 2010In the latest recall news, the government is announcing a recall of some 1.2 million high chairs, saying they pose a fall hazard for children. The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the voluntary recall on Thursday involving a product made by Graco Children’s Products Inc. of Atlanta. According to the regulatory agency “screws holding the [...]
‘Princess and Frog’ children’s necklaces recalled for cadmium
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010Another day, another recall. Federal consumer safety regulators have announced the recall of The Princess and The Frog pendants due to high levels of the toxic metal cadmium. The recall affects two products, which add up to about 55,000 items, sold exclusively at Walmart stores for $5 each. The action was taken voluntarily by jewelry [...]
E. coli: Calif. company recalls 864,000 pounds of beef
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Here we go again. When are you going to stop trusting the FDA? They keep nothing safe. They can’t and they have their own agenda anyway. Now a Southern California meat-packing firm has recalled some 864,000 pounds of ground-beef that might be contaminated with E. coli. The Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service [...]
Tylenol recall expanded to Motrin, Benadryl, more
Friday, January 15th, 2010It just doesn’t pay to trust drug companies. They always fail the consumer in one way or another. Now Johnson & Johnson has expanded a recall of over-the-counter medications Friday, the second time it has done so in less than a month, because of a moldy smell that makes users sick. The broadened recall now [...]
Tylenol Arthritis Caplet voluntary recall expanded
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009Another day another recall. Companies take such good care of you huh? Johnson & Johnson is now expanding a voluntary recall of Tylenol Arthritis Caplets due to consumer reports of a moldy smell that can cause nausea and sickness. The company is now recalling all product lots of the Arthritis Pain Caplet 100 count bottles [...]
Baby food recalled, possibly tainted with botulism
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009Plum Organics of Emeryville, Calif. is recalling some of its apple and carrot portable pouch baby food because of concerns that it might be tainted with botulism. The product was sold individually at Toys-R-Us and Babies-R-Us stores. It is sold in 4.22-ounce pouches, with a “best by” date of May 21, 2010, and UPC 890180001221. [...]
