Defective & Dangerous Products

• Georgia's Castleberry Expands Botulism Recall

  Eddie Farah | July 24, 2007 11:43 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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...

• Battery Giant Sued for Worker Injuries

  Eddie Farah | July 02, 2007 8:01 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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...

• Poisoned Toothpaste Found In SE Hospitals

  Eddie Farah | June 30, 2007 10:18 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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...

• Feds Nix Widespread Mad Cow Testing

  Eddie Farah | June 03, 2007 9:55 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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...

• Farmed Fish May Contain Melamine

  Eddie Farah | May 10, 2007 8:35 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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,...

• Lung Disease Linked To Cured Meat

  Eddie Farah | April 30, 2007 2:35 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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...

• Recall of Listerine Rinse Linked to Contamination

  Eddie Farah | April 18, 2007 11:50 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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...

• Plastic Chemical Found in Pet Food, Recall Expanded

  Eddie Farah | April 02, 2007 3:51 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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...

• Rat Poison in Pet Food Kills 16 Pets, 60 Million Cans Recalled

  Eddie Farah | March 24, 2007 12:13 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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...

• FDA Warns of Sleep Aids' Strange Effects

  Eddie Farah | March 16, 2007 3:37 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  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...