Attention pet owners: A popular brand of kibble made by the company Bravo! has undergone a national recall following tests of the product that showed signs of salmonella. The company, based in Manchester, Conn., has sounded the alarm on its Bravo! Blends All Natural Chicken Blend diet for dogs and […]
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Maybe it started with WebMD, a site on which one can input his or her symptoms and identify their possible causes. Easy, fairly accurate and quick, WebMD provides instant gratification and helps users determine what might be wrong with them and how to rectify it. With information at their fingertips […]
The Food and Drug Administration is modernizing the way it reports recalls of products that pose risks to consumers. Through the development of an application programming interface, all recalls reported to the Recall Enterprise System now will be available to researchers. The development of the software is significant because hundreds […]
A stroll through the produce department at Publix and Winn-Dixie will reveal an assortment of fruits and vegetables from Mexico. The country is one of the United States’ largest trading partners, and the tropical goodies are a major commodity. The good news for consumers who want to ensure their proverbial […]
I have lost count now of how many times GM has issued a recall and the total number of vehicles recalled in the past several months by GM; I know it is in the area of over 20 million vehicles. Tragically, years of delay in recalling cars over a faulty […]
A lot can be misconstrued in the silent world of the Internet. While online technology has changed the communications paradigm, it also has resulted in bad information, embarrassing typos, factual errors and malfeasance. Fake Web sites, botched emails, rambling blogs and photo abuse appear in cyberspace every day. Most of […]
“We are reformed and vow never to be evil, devious, conspiratorial, deceitful, designing, tricky, conniving, underhanded or murderous ever again!” So goes the paraphrased prostrations of lawyer Jeff Furr, representing one of the most diabolical industries that has ever existed in America – Big Tobacco. Mr. Furr was trying to […]
When insurance fraud was on the rise in the 1970’s, insurance companies, law enforcement and state governments got together and did things like launched joint task forces to investigate fraud and formed insurance exchanges to help manage the problem. Their first reactions were not to; in effect, legally defraud the […]
When I first received the news blurb I thought it was a joke; but this is no laughing matter! Apparently, in addition to trying to avoid sunburn, at least one brand of spray-on sunscreen can cause you second and third degree burns. The maker of Banana Boat UltraMist Sunscreen has […]
On Wednesday, October 10, 2012, Toyota recalled over 7 million vehicles worldwide to fix faulty window switches that can cause fires. This is not the first major recall involving Toyota. It seems the more Toyota tries to improve its image after several safety issues involving their product, the more problems […]