Defective & Dangerous Products

• Salmonella Peanut Butter Recall

  Eddie Farah | February 15, 2007 11:24 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Make sure you look at the product code on the jar of peanut butter on your shelf. If it begins with "2111" take it back to the grocery store for a refund. Salmonella has been found in the Peter Pan brand. Great Value is made at the same plant. The tainted peanut butter was produced in Georgia at the Sylvester facility by ConAgra.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta is...

• Drug Stent Caution Urged

  Eddie Farah | January 11, 2007 7:30 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  The use of stents, a tiny wire mesh device, by surgeons to help control blockage to major arteries or blood vessels has been a life saving technique used for years. Diseased arteries are unclogged then a stent is inserted. This procedure has been extremely successful in saving lives.In recent years, drug-eluting stents have become popular but the use of these types of stents has become an...

• Deadly Spare Tire!

  Eddie Farah | December 28, 2006 8:29 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  In July 2006, Anom Josil wife' and two close friends from Orange Park, Florida were killed on Interstate 95 in North Carolina when their vehicle rolled over because the tire separated from steel belt on their spare tire.This case brought to light the danger of aging spare tired which appeared in perfect condition. Spare tires are used little and look new. Motorists aren't aware that they...

• Phillip Morris handed a $10B Victory

  Eddie Farah | November 29, 2006 10:17 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  The Supreme Court recently upheld the Illinois Supreme Court ruling that threw out a $10.1 Billion verdict of "light" cigarettes.In March 2003, an Illinois judge ruled against the tobacco companies saying customers were misled into believing they were buying less harmful cigarettes and awarded a $10.1 billion verdict. In 2005, The Illinois Supreme Court threw out the massive fraud judgment...

• Court ruling on light cigarettes

  Eddie Farah | November 01, 2006 11:00 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  In a prior article we explained that a Class Action Lawsuit for ">Light Cigarette smokers had been filed against major tobacco companies alleging tobacco companies mislead smokers about the health hazards of smokingYesterday, The U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit blocked a judgment against the tobacco industry, allowing the companies to continue to sell "light"...

• Small Tobacco Companies

  Eddie Farah | October 18, 2006 9:01 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Three small tobacco companies filed a suit with the Supreme Court alleging violations of antitrust laws in an effort to avoid paying states moneyEight years ago, four of the biggest tobacco companies paid $206 billion 30 states passed a law requiring companies that didn't participate in this settlement to pay money into escrow funds to satisfy future damage awards in cigarette-related lawsuits. ...

• Ford Recalls vehicles

  Eddie Farah | October 10, 2006 9:12 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Ford Motor Co is recalling 145,000 vehicles.The problems range from defective latches to faulty drive trainsOver 139,000 2005 model-year Five Hundred and Montego sedans and 2005-2006 model-year freestar minivans have been recalled because the side door latches may let water in. The agency also reported the door could open while...

• Tainted Spinach

  Eddie Farah | October 07, 2006 2:30 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  A third death resulting from eating fresh spinach has been reported according to health officials.Ruby Trautz, from Sarpy County, Nebraska, is the latest victim. She was 84-year-old woman and ate spinach contaminated with the same strain of E. coli that has sickened at least 190 other people around the countryHer death was confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This news...

• Woman paralyzed

  Eddie Farah | October 06, 2006 10:14 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Bottled carrot juice believed to contain botulism toxin has paralyzed a Florida woman. The unidentified woman has been hospitalized since mid-September and is unresponsive. Three Georgia residence have experienced respiratory failure and remain hospitalized on ventilators. Bottle carrot juice is believed to have caused these injuries.All four victims drank bottled carrot juice; manufactured by...

• Push to drop the term "recall"

  Eddie Farah | September 28, 2006 8:06 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  The Heart Rhythm Society has requested the Food and Drug Administration not to use the word "recall" but use "safety advisory" or "safety alert" when referring to defective pacemakers and defibrillators.According the Heart Rhythm Society's president Dwight Reynolds, "The anxiety created among patients and physicians by this term is the number one cause for replacement of devices." He went on to...