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• Canned Meat Recall

  Steve Klearman | July 24, 2007 9:35 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  This from CBS News:Castleberry Food Co. is recalling every product manufactured on a specific production line in the past two years in response to four cases of botulism poisoning in Texas and Indiana.The production line is one of "four or five" in its Augusta, Ga., facility. On Saturday night the company also shut down the entire plant for one week while it investigates the cause of the...

• Easy Bake Oven Recall

  Steve Klearman | July 19, 2007 8:14 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  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...

• Brazilian Plane Crash Kills At Least 200

  Jenny Albano | July 18, 2007 7:41 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Tuesday night, a plane was trying to land on a short runway in a rainstorm at the Sao Paulo Congonhas airport, when it ran into an airline building and a gas station and burst into flames. The TAM Airlines Airbus-320, which had come from Porto Alegre in Southern Brazil, had 186 people on the plane, and it is unknown how many people were in the building that was hit.Witnesses said they saw the...

• China Deserves the Scrutiny

  Steve Klearman | July 16, 2007 8:49 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  There's a headline on Yahoo News today: China is blaming the media for inflating concerns about product safety (rather ironic on the wake of the execution of the minister in charge of drug safety).I lived in Taiwan for several years and travelled extensively through China. It is, without doubt, one of the most polluted countries in the world.China deserves the blame. They endanger the entire...

• California Rates Cardiac Surgeons

  Steve Klearman | July 16, 2007 7:43 AM | 1 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  This from Garth Sullivan, Esq. at Indox Consulting:For the first time, California consumers can find out how individual cardiac surgeons fare on coronary bypass procedures. In a new report, the state has listed bypass death rates for 121 hospitals and 302 heart surgeons. The data is drawn from adult bypasses performed between Jan. 1, 2003 and Dec. 31, 2004. Hospital fees paid for the $1.5...