Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning causes more than 20,000 emergency room visits and 400 deaths each year in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas, making it difficult to detect and therefore difficult to prove as the culprit in countless […]
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Years of adverse-event reports documenting problems associated with compromised food, dangerous drugs and harmful cosmetics are now available to the public. The information can be obtained, free of charge, via a downloadable report to be updated quarterly. The data currently spans twelve years. Advocacy Groups Find Adverse-Event Reports Helpful for Protecting Consumers Business leaders, […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considered by many to be the premier safety and health regulator in the world. The agency oversees about one-quarter of all products Americans consume including food, drugs and medical devices. Most Americans assume they are safe with the FDA at the helm. […]
It is all about research and publishing. That is the pressure supposedly exerted on academics, scientists and some physicians – “publish or perish”. Scientific research is no different than any other form of research from the perspective of “garbage in garbage out”. These days most of us do some form […]
A joint announcement by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) concerning baby sleep positioners advises parents and caregivers to immediately stop using the products. Despite claims that the baby sleep positioners protect infants from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the use of the positioners […]
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Health Canada (HC) announced today that a free replacement program has begun for the “SlingRider” and “Wendy Bellissimo” infant slings, manufactured by Infantino LLC, of San Diego, California. One million slings are being recalled in the United States and 15,000 are being […]
Suppose that when a product malfunctions it was acceptable for the manufacturer to pay “experts”, recognized and notable professionals; to write articles, opinion letters, and studies, that spoke of the product’s safety. Articles that dispelled any notion that the product was really what was causing the problem. Suppose that each […]