By Jill Replogle on October 15, 2010
CVS Pharmacy Inc. agreed to pay $77.6 million to settle allegations that its drugstores sold large amounts of cough and cold medicines with the ingredient pseudoephedrine to criminal traffickers, who used it to make the highly addictive stimulant methamphetamine. In an agreement negotiated with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles, the company — the nation’s…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs |
By Jill Replogle on October 14, 2010
Tests commissioned by a California-based environmental group working with the state attorney general’s office have found illegally high lead content in children’s products at the Walmart and Target retail chains. The Center for Environmental Health said the lead was discovered in toddlers’ green and yellow beanbag chairs, youth boxing gloves, toy foam jewelry beads and a…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Product Hazards and Recalls |
By Jill Replogle on October 14, 2010
Airline industry officials are trying to water down a safety measure in a law passed this summer by Congress that calls for airline co-pilots to have at least 1,500 hours of flying experience, the same as required of captains, the Associated Press reports. The push for rules easing the experience requirement is coming from a…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Aviation Safety |
By Jill Replogle on October 14, 2010
The Canadian government has officially listed BPA, a chemical used widely in consumer plastics and food cans, as a toxic substance. The listing will make it easier to ban the use of BPA in specific products, The New York Times reports. However, the country’s next move will likely be to set limits on factories that…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Environmental Safety and Health |
By Jill Replogle on October 14, 2010
Children increasingly are being hospitalized with injuries — often traumatic brain injuries — from all-terrain vehicle accidents, a new study shows. A Johns Hopkins University research team found that 4,039 children up to age 17 were admitted at hospitals for ATV-related injuries in 2006. That was 2½ times higher than the total of 1,618 in…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Off-Road Vehicles |
By Jill Replogle on October 13, 2010
Good news for fearful fliers: serious runway incursions — that is, near accidents — were cut in half in the U.S. over the past fiscal year. Six serious runway incursions took place at the nation’s airports in the 12-month period that ended Sept. 30, versus 12 the previous year, the Federal Aviation Administration said in…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Aviation Safety |
By Jill Replogle on October 12, 2010
After the West Virginia mine disaster in April that took 29 lives, the Obama administration launched a $23 million effort to improve enforcement of safety rules in the industry. In particular, it sought to reduce the two-year backlog of safety citations being appealed by mine operators. That initiative, however, is floundering, the Washington Post reports….
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Workplace Safety and Health |
By Jill Replogle on October 12, 2010
A panel looking into sudden acceleration hazards with cars and trucks made by Toyota Motor Corp. and other auto companies was told Monday by an academic expert that the risk of dying in a crash while driving a recalled Toyota is minimal, The Detroit News reports. Paul Fischbeck, a Carnegie Mellon University professor, told the…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Auto and Highway Safety, Product Hazards and Recalls |
By Jill Replogle on October 12, 2010
Hans Petersen took a deadly misstep in April while checking his work on a rooftop solar power installation atop a Northern California public housing complex. Petersen, working without a safety harness or a barrier to prevent a fall, tumbled off the pitched roof and landed three stories below on a concrete walkway. He was airlifted…
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Warning Wire | Tagged Workplace Safety and Health |
By Jill Replogle on October 11, 2010
Have you ever wondered how federal regulators decide to push a mass recall of something like kids jewelry, toys or another product for children? A report by the Associated Press opens a window on the decision-making process at the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Through a Freedom of Information Act request, the AP obtained documents from the June 4…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Product Hazards and Recalls |
