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The story appearing in the August 14-20 issue of Folio Weekly puts into perspective having a bad day.Karen Donges, a 35-year old communications instructor at UNF, moved into the Esplanade at Town Center earlier this year. While the renter liked the grainite counter tops and stainless steel appliances, she didnt like the black mold spores climbing up her bedroom wall.She began feeling flu-like...

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Hundreds of thousands of defective tires made in China are being recalled starting today.The tires are distributed by Foreign Tire Sales Inc., which is overseeing the recall.The problem --the tires are missing a gum strip that is an important safety feature which binds the belts of a tire together. Remember the Firestone tire recall in 2000? That was one of the problems behind the largest tire...

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They are toys most parents are familiar with--Dora and Diego, Big Bird, Elmo.But now Fisher-Price is recalling 83 different types, involving 967,000 plastic preschool toys because of lead paint.The toys were made in China and sold in the U.S. between May and August. The problem was discovered internally then reported to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). This is the first recall for...

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July is the month for barbeques and hotdogs. It's perhaps the worst month for a company to have a suspected botulism outbreak in its hot dog chili sauce.Now the FDA is asking consumers to throw away more than 90 different products from Castleberry Foods of Augusta, Georgia, from chili sauce to dog food. Botulism poisoning is serious and can be fatal. So far two people in Texas and two in...

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John "Chuck" Mikell, says he had no idea what substance he was handling at a former Energizer battery plant in Alachua County. But now the husband and father of four has a very good idea what's caused his stage four kidney cancer-- cadmium and nickel used to make the rechargable batteries. Mikell, 50, says he's been given a death sentence because of work he did at the plant. The 50 year old is...

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It was origionally assumed that toothpaste from China, tainted with an antifreeze ingredient, would be found in discount stores.But a search is finding the tainted tubes in hospitals, homes for the mentally ill, prisons, jeuvenile detention centers throughout Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida.Altogether roughly 900,000 tubes were handed out in dozens of state institutions that...

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There have been three cases of mad cow disease discovered in bovines in the U.S. one as recent as last year that cost the U.S. meat industry billions in exports. And humans do not want to consume that meat. Period. A cruel brain wasting disease, CJD, has afflicted many mostly in Britain, and a horrible death is certain.So why would our government NOT want to test more cows in this country?Is it...

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When you shop for groceries, increasingly you see that the fish counter is offering versions of farmed over wild fish.Besides antibiotic use in these farmed fish tanks, and color enhancer to make salmon the same deep color as its wild varieties -- now comes word that melamine, the plastic component found in what's now identified as wheat flour from China linked to the massive pet food recall,...

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You've heard the joke about not wanting to know how laws or lunchmeat are made?This study is not a joke and will have you thinking twice next time you want to down that ballpark dog. Before you dismiss it, the study looked at more than 7,300 people from 1988 to 1994. Researchers from Columbia Medical School found that those who ate the most cured meat had a 20% chance of being diagnosed with an...

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It's a plaque detecting rinse made by a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, McNeill PPC.The company is complying with the FDA and voluntarily recalling all lots of GLACIER MINT™ and BUBBLE BLAST™ flavors of LISTERINE® AGENT COOL BLUE. Apparently the preservative is not protecting against contamination by certain microorganisms. No one has been injured yet.The company stresses that no other...

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It's thought that at least 100 pets have died so far from this massive pet food recall which on Friday expanded to include dry food.The FDA has announced it found melamine, a chemical used to make plastic, in samples of the recalled food.It's believed the melamine comes from the wheat gluten ingredient imported from China. Melamine was also found in the urine of sick cats. So far 60 million...

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This is a story that broke one week ago and the news just keeps getting worse.16 pets have now died from consuming canned cat and dog food produced by Menu Foods of Canada and produced in their two U.S. plants. Today Cornell University scientists found traces of a rat poison in cans they tested and they predict more dogs and cats will die. The FDA has recalled more than 60 million...

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You can't watch an hour of television without seeing an ad for a drug. In fact, if drug advertising were pulled, it might threaten the entire broadcast industry.Among the most popular ads and profitable (3 billion in sales last year) are those for sleep aids such as Ambien and Lunesta. Restful sleep they promise with no side-effects. But wait a minute -- the FDA says there may be a rash of...

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The mystery has been partially solved. Thursday the FDA announced it has found the same strain of salmonella at a ConAgra plant in Georgia that's been linked to more than 370 cases of food poisioning from peanut butter around the country.The company recalled Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter February 14th after peanut butter was found to be the link to salmonella sicknesses since August...

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Alachua County is reporting the first case of salmonella poisoning from tainted peanut butter. That is being confirmed by the Duval County Health Department. Florida joins 39 other states in reporting outbreaks from the consumption of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter made in the ConAgra plant in Sylvester, Georgia. Great Value is Wal-Mart's store brand. The product code to look for on the...

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