Mattel & Fisher-Price Fined for Lead in Toys
Mattel, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Fisher-Price, agreed to pay a $2.3 million fine for violating a federal lead paint ban. The fine follows a 2007 recall of millions of Mattel’s popular children toys that contained lead paint levels that violated federal law. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), who announced the […]
China Still Dominates in Product Recalls
Washington DC – A number of recent product recalls are proving alarming to parents, who fear for the safety of their children, and with good reason. Case in point: This week about 20,000 Simmons Kids Crib Mattresses were recalled because of a size, and dimensional issue. Some of the crib mattresses can measure smaller than […]
Dashboards Cracking on Dodge Ram Pickups
Jackson, MS – Derek Gilmer purchased a 2002 Dodge Ram truck and he loves it. However, he recently noticed that small hairline cracks began appearing on his dashboard. And these are not cheap repairs. These repairs can actually be quite expensive. When he showed these cracks to Jackson’s WLBT3, the air vent actually collapsed right […]
FDA: Heparin Sourced from Unregulated Farms
New York, NY – Heparin is an injectable blood-thinning drug that is mainly given to dialysis patients (about 450,000 in the US alone). It is also administered in heart surgery and occasionally given to patients with blood-clotting problems due to its ability to prevent the formation of clots that can lead to stroke or heart […]