The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has announced three separate recalls of children’s clothing due to strangulation and entanglement hazards. All the garments have drawstrings through some clothing part, which poses a strangulation risk to children. The CPSC advises consumers to immediately remove the drawstrings from the garment to eliminate the hazard or return [...]

About 175,000 Buckyballs® High Powered Magnets Sets are being recalled by Maxfield and Oberton due to violation of the federal toy standard, announced the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Manufactured in China and imported by Maxfield and Oberton LLC, of New York, New York, the high powered magnets sets were labeled “Ages 13+” and [...]

Wally’s Nut House, LLC of Oak Grove, MO, is recalling its16 ounce packages of Tailgate Crunch Mix, Sweet Cajun Heat Mix, Country Western Mix, Cranberry Raisin Mix, Party Mix, Hot ‘n Spicy Mix, and Louisiana Cajun Mix snack mixes because they could contain undeclared milk, soy, and/or wheat, announced The Food and Drug Administration (FDA). [...]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) has announced that organicgirl Produce is voluntarily recalling a limited number of cases of 10 oz organicgirl Baby Spinach because it could be tainted with Salmonella, although no illnesses have been reported. The recall includes 336 cases of the 10 oz. package size of organicgirl Baby Spinach, product code [...]

BP better have extremely deep pockets because the Deepwater Horizon oil spill catastrophe has already cost $930 million, according to the company. Estimates for the total clean-up costs have not been set by BP, but it’s expected to be in the billions, reports the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The rig exploded April 20 off the [...]

Tanning bed lovers beware. A new study indicates those who tan indoors have a 75 percent increased risk of developing the skin cancer melanoma versus those who have never tanned on a bed, reports CNN. As to be expected, frequent and long-term indoor tanners significantly up their chance of the often deadly disease. Melanoma, a [...]

Dengue, the most prevalent vector-borne viral disease in the world, has surfaced in Key West, Florida. More than one-third of the world’s population lives in a dengue fever risk area causing an estimated 50–100 million infections and 25,000 deaths every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, Key West is [...]

The Fort Washington, Pa., drug plant that manufactured children’s Tylenol was the site of numerous deficiencies prior to the recall of Tylenol and 40 other pediatric products such as Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl. Bacterial contamination of raw materials, derelict equipment maintenance and failure to investigate 46 consumer complaints “regarding foreign materials, black or dark specks” [...]

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has announced the recall of about 550 Cummins Power Generators because they pose a fire hazard to consumers if fuel leaks through the carburetor during normal use. To date, the firm has received 25 reports of fuel leakage but no incidents of injuries or property damage. The affected [...]

It has been over a months since the desolating Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 and caused at least 7 million gallons of crude to spew from a fractured well. So far, none of BP’s efforts to halt the gush of oil have worked. Late yesterday, BP, the [...]