Just the thought makes you sick without even taking a bite. Most ‘big business’chickens live in squalor until they meet their doom. That’s no surprise. But shouldn’t they be clean and bacteria free by the time they hit the grocery? Apparently not…especially for Tyson and Foster Farms birds. Consumer Reports, who has been following contamination [...]
Archive for November, 2009
American Heart Association statistics indicate that radiation exposure from medical tests has increased sevenfold since 1980. Procedures for heart attack patients account for approximately a third of all imaging tests done. Usually about four tests are ordered during their hospital stay—CT scans, chest X-rays and cardiac catheterizations. However, these procedures expose each patient to roughly [...]
“We have always talked about it, and we’ve always said that it would explode someday,” said Frankie Olivo, referring to last month’s fuel storage explosion in Puerto Rico, reported the Miami Herald. The nonprofit Inter-American University School of Law’s Center for Investigative Reporting uncovered that Caribbean Petroleum Company (CAPECO) had a history of previous significant [...]
It’s doubtful if any denture wearer considered nerve damage or neuropathy when the first tube of denture cream was purchased. Did any of the over 35 million people sporting new teeth in the United States think their over the counter tube of Poligrip or Fixodent could be poisonous to their body? Probably not but that’s [...]
Judge Elden E. Fallon has announced a surprising but huge breakthrough for plaintiffs devastated by defective Chinese drywall. Knauf Plasterboard (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. (KPT), a major Chinese plasterboard manufacturer cited in ongoing drywall complaints, will accept service of process for one month only. The omnibus class action proceedings will allow claimants with validated KPT drywall [...]

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