Product Hazards and Recalls
By Stuart Silverstein on December 17, 2018
Consumer advocates fault U.S. investigators for withholding information on two widely sold products determined to be lacking a promised ingredient
Posted in Recent Stories | Tagged Consumer Protection, FDA, Government accountability, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Product Hazards and Recalls |
By Chelsea Conaboy on November 20, 2018
Administration officials blame mismanagement of forests and “radical environmentalists” for massive California blazes.
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Climate Change, Consumer Protection, FDA, Firearms, Government accountability, Product Hazards and Recalls, Smoking and Tobacco Industry |
By Ted Rohrlich on November 19, 2018
Attorney David Kurtz’s suit for 4 crash victims morphed into a legal fight calling into question the integrity of America’s No. 1 tire maker.
Posted in FairWarning Investigates, Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Consumer Protection, Product Hazards and Recalls |
By Eli Wolfe on November 14, 2018
Without explanation, officials eventually altered crash data, revealing a death toll more than 3 times higher than previously acknowledged.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Product Hazards and Recalls |
By Myron Levin on September 24, 2018
A mistrial was declared today after a California state court jury deadlocked on whether Johnson & Johnson was responsible for the asbestos-related cancer of a woman who blamed her illness on longtime use of contaminated baby powder.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Environmental Safety and Health, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Product Hazards and Recalls, talc |
By Chelsea Conaboy on July 24, 2018
For the fourth time since 2011, a government audit has found that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is failing in key oversight roles meant to reduce injuries and deaths on the nation’s roads. The new audit criticized the agency’s handling of the massive recall of faulty Takata air bag inflators.
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Climate Change, Consumer Protection, Drinking Water, Endangered Species Act, Government accountability, Product Hazards and Recalls, Smoking and Tobacco Industry, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Myron Levin and Stuart Silverstein on July 12, 2018
The legal assault on Johnson & Johnson and its signature baby powder reached new heights today, when a state court jury in Missouri found the company responsible for the ovarian cancers of 22 women, and ordered the drug and consumer products giant to pay $4.69 billion in compensatory and punitive damages to the cancer victims…
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Asbestos, Environmental Safety and Health, Johnson & Johnson, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Product Hazards and Recalls, talc |
By Lynne Peeples on July 11, 2018
Few people know that there are federal safety limits for exposure to the weak radiation emitted by cellphones and other wireless devices. There often is language about this embedded right in our phones, but finding it requires knowing where to look, wading through sometimes five or more steps and then making sense of the technical…
Posted in FairWarning Investigates | Tagged Cell Phones, Consumer Protection, Environmental Safety and Health, Product Hazards and Recalls |
By Myron Levin on May 24, 2018
Editor's note: See update at bottom of story.
For the second time in less than two months, Johnson & Johnson has suffered a big courtroom loss in a case that blamed a rare asbestos-related cancer on long-term use of contaminated baby powder. A state court jury in Southern California ordered the company to pay $4 million in punitive damages to mesothelioma victim Joanne Anderson and her husband, bringing the total verdict to about $25.7 million.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Environmental Safety and Health, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Product Hazards and Recalls, talc |
By Chelsea Conaboy on May 22, 2018
About 4.6 million children in the United States live in homes where guns are kept unlocked and loaded, as more people come to believe – despite scientific evidence to the contrary – that a home with a gun is a safer home, according to a new analysis …
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Auto and Highway Safety, Consumer Protection, Drinking Water, Environmental Safety and Health, Firearms, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Product Hazards and Recalls, Workplace Safety and Health |
