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May 21st, 2012 Joshua
Diamond Pet Foods has now included its Diamond Naturals dry cat food to its ever-expanding recall on dry pet foods it manufactured at its plant in South Carolina that may be contaminated with Salmonella bacteria.
According to a report from The Christian Science Monitor, there has been little attention called to the recall on cat food, [...]
May 17th, 2012 Joshua
Skechers USA has agreed to pay $50 million as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission on charges it made false claims about its line of Shape-Ups toning sneakers.
According to an LA Times report, the U.S. shoe and sneaker company faced charges it illegally touted the benefits of its line of uneven-bottomed toning [...]
April 30th, 2012 Joshua
The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to the makers of dietary supplements containing dimethylamylamine (DMAA) because its safety to the public has never been proven by any scientific evidence.
According to a release from the agency, ten manufacturers of dietary supplements have received warning letters from the FDA, either to provide evidence that [...]
April 24th, 2012 Joshua
Life insurer MetLife has agreed to pay $500 million to settle lawsuits filed by more than 30 states claiming the company failed to do due diligence in checking to see if policy holders died, pocketing the unpaid death benefits should have been paid to benefactors.
Major life insurance companies have come under recent fire for failing [...]
April 24th, 2012 Joshua
The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to the makers of consumer products about the unknown safety of nanotechnology.
Many products are created using nanotechnology, the development of materials on the one-billionth of the size scale, so small it can not be seen with common microscopes. The FDA said late last week that it [...]
April 17th, 2012 Joshua
A California supplier of fish to sushi bars, restaurants, and grocery stores nationwide has issued a recall on some specific raw tuna products that may be linked to the ongoing nationwide Salmonella outbreak.
According to recall statement from the Food and Drug Administration, Moon Marine USA Corp. (aka MMI Corp.) has issued a voluntary call-back on [...]
April 10th, 2012 Joshua
Federal regulators believe a crackdown on dangerous and hazardous toys or other products imported to the U.S. has prevented more than a half-million products from reaching consumers.
According to a report from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the agency says its work with the federal Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to examine the contents of 2,900 [...]
April 6th, 2012 Joshua
The number of companies failing to notify federal safety regulators when they become aware one of their products has been implicated in reports of injuries to consumers has risen steadily over the last few years.
According to a CBS News affiliate in Chicago, a total of 10 companies were fined by the Consumer Product Safety Commission [...]
April 5th, 2012 Joshua
An ongoing outbreak of Salmonella poisoning that’s responsible for infecting at least 90 people in 19 states appears linked to fish or seafood used for sushi.
According to an MSNBC.com report, the Food and Drug Administration is aware of at least 90 cases of Salmonella poisoning among people who ate at sushi restaurants recently. An internal [...]
April 4th, 2012 Joshua
A new study from the consumer safety advocate Kids in Danger notes that product recalls on dangerous toys and other products for children dropped nearly one-fourth in the last year. However, one-third of the reported recalls involved products responsible for injuries to children.
According to a DeseretNews.com report on the study from the watchdog group, there [...]
