Recent Posts in Child Safety Category
Posted on Mar 31, 2011 By Sean Brown
The Chicago Tribune (3/30, Gabler) reported there are "at least 17 cases where the Consumer Product Safety Commission did not investigate a child's death, even though the agency had reports on file ...
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Posted on Mar 28, 2011 By Sean Brown
Earlier this month, a verdict exceeding $233,000 was awarded in a medical malpractice action against the St. Mary’s Subregional Clinic and the Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation (“YKHC”) in Alaska. A ...
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Posted on Mar 2, 2011 By Sean Brown
Jogging strollers sold by phil&teds USA, Inc, of Fort Collins, Colorado, have been recalled due to amputation and laceration hazards. When folding and unfolding the stroller, a consumer's finger ...
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Posted on Mar 1, 2011 By Sean Brown
The AP (2/28) reported alcohol wipe manufacturer Triad Group "is being sued by a Texas couple who lost their 2-year-old son to a fatal bacterial infection." According to Shanoop and Sandra Kothari's ...
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Posted on Jan 27, 2011 By Sean Brown
The New York Times (1/26, B3, Wilson) reported that "a federal advisory panel on Tuesday called for stricter oversight of the defibrillators available in many schools, gyms, lobbies, and other places ...
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Posted on Jan 7, 2011 By Sean Brown
The Boston Herald (1/7, Goodison) reports a couple sued crib maker Hayneedle Inc. over the 2008 suffocation death of their toddler son. Their suit tagged the company for negligence "in failing to warn ...
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Posted on Dec 15, 2010 By Sean Brown
The AP (12/15) reports, "The US Food and Drug Administration says that Tessalon (benzonatate) liquid cough capsules should be kept in child-proof containers because they look like candy and could pose ...
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Posted on Dec 14, 2010 By Sean Brown
The Chicago Tribune (12/11, Zajac) reported, "Prodded by consumer and dental activists, the Food and Drug Administration is reviewing the scientific evidence underlying its pronouncement less than 18 ...
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Posted on Dec 14, 2010 By Sean Brown
In her Vital Signs column in the New York Times (12/14, D6), Roni Caryn Rabin writes, "Consumers Union is urging pregnant women to avoid eating tuna altogether and advising small children to limit ...
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Posted on Dec 14, 2010 By Sean Brown
The Gilmer (TX) Mirror (12/12) reported, "Most of today's toys are actually made in China or other foreign country, regardless of what label is on the box or what country the manufacturer calls home. ...
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Posted on Dec 12, 2010 By Sean Brown
NY Times reports, "The number of Americans hospitalized for dog bites almost doubled over a 15-year-period, increasing to 9,500 in 2008 from 5,100 in 1993, a new government study reports." The report ...
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Posted on Dec 11, 2010 By Sean Brown
Bloomberg News (12/8) reports that more than half of holiday lights tested in a U.S. study had more lead than regulators permit in children’s products, with some strands containing more than 30 times ...
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Posted on Dec 10, 2010 By Sean Brown
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (12/9, Hahn) reported the parents of an asthmatic girl filed a wrongful death suit against haunted house operator Halloween Productions, Inc. According to the suit filed by ...
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Posted on Dec 10, 2010 By Sean Brown
Nevada's Public News Service (12/9) reported according to a report by the American Association for Justice, "95 percent of the toys sold in the US now come from abroad, and some of them would not ...
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Posted on Dec 8, 2010 By Sean Brown
The AP (12/7) reported a Chicago couple filed suit against Easton-Bell Sports Inc., maker of aluminum baseball bats, "for injuries their 11-year-old son suffered when he was struck in the head by a ...
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Posted on Dec 7, 2010 By Sean Brown
Reuters (12/6, Heavy) reports that some mothers experience difficulty when trying to breastfeed their newborns, and thus find themselves turning to other lactating mothers for help. But concerns have ...
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Posted on Dec 6, 2010 By Sean Brown
HealthDay (12/3, Reinberg) reported, "Pregnant women with epilepsy who are taking carbamazepine (Tegretol) to control seizures may be at a slightly increased risk of having an infant with spina ...
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Posted on Dec 3, 2010 By Sean Brown
The AP (12/3) reports, "The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to" Align Technology, Inc., "a company that makes a popular teeth straightener" -- the Invisalign system -- "about its ...
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Posted on Dec 2, 2010 By Sean Brown
Bloomberg News (12/1, Plungis) reported that Lowe's has joined a December 2009 CPSC recall "that covered more than 50 million Roman and roll-up blinds, because of strangulation hazards, the agency ...
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Posted on Nov 23, 2010 By Sean Brown
The AP (11/22) reported that the US Consumer Product Safety Commission "said it was collecting samples of all glasses cited in an ongoing Associated Press investigation into dangerous metals in ...
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Posted on Nov 23, 2010 By Sean Brown
The New York Times /Bloomberg News (11/23) reports, "Johnson & Johnson, the maker of healthcare products, has recalled about four million packages of cherry- and grape-flavored Children's Benadryl ...
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Posted on Nov 22, 2010 By Sean Brown
Bloomberg News (11/22 Plungis) reported, "Bassett Furniture Industries Inc. recalled about 90,000 drop-side cribs after reports of at least 154 incidents of failed hardware, the US Consumer Product ...
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