Defective & Dangerous Products

• Massive Food-Born Illness Outbreak Exposure

  IB Contributor | February 03, 2007 11:02 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  The Next Katrina Waiting To HappenThe Government Accountability Office has added food safety to its list of critically flawed federal programs, saying that splintered jurisdiction among 15 agencies has left the United States wide open to outbreaks of food-borne illness or, worse, a terrorist attack, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.The article also quotes a senior administration...

• School Cafeterias, Are They Safe

  IB Contributor | January 31, 2007 11:33 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  11,000 Food-borne Illnesses Associated With Schools Some school districts and governments are not inspecting school cafeterias frequently enough or are using out-of-date food safety standards, according to a report by the Center for Science in the Public Interest released Tuesday. According to this report, conditions in America's school cafeterias could trigger potentially disastrous outbreaks...

• Food Poisoning, What To Do - Part 2

  IB Contributor | January 31, 2007 12:26 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  It's never pretty.The Orange County Health Care Agency constantly investigates the source of food-borne illnesses. They receive hundreds of reports every year of suspicious foods sold and served in Orange County.This is how agency officials work. First, they identify the foods responsible for the reported illness. Then, they collect accurate and complete information from the victims. They also...

• Food Poisoning, What To Do - Part One

  IB Contributor | January 30, 2007 11:04 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  It's never pretty. And often it comes without warning, like an unwelcome guest who elbows his way to your dinner table.When it's all done, you feel miserable. Abdominal cramping, diarrhea, vomiting, fever, headache, severe exhaustion - these are but some of the horrible symptoms of food poisoning whose very mention is enough to make you shudder. For me personally, I discovered what it was like...

• Packaging Greens May Lead To Future E.Coli Outbreaks

  IB Contributor | January 24, 2007 1:03 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Food safety advocates and scientists are now saying that packaging greens might contribute to the spread of a lethal strain of E.Coli bacteria, according to an article published last week in the Los Angeles Times.Several recent outbreaks of food-borne illnesses were traced to bagged spinach or lettuce from California. The article quotes Dr. David W.K. Acheson, chief medical officer at the U.S....

• Grill Maker Fails To Report Product Defect

  IB Contributor | January 22, 2007 9:50 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  $300,000 Civil Penalty Paid. Nexgrill Industries Inc., based in the City of Industry, has agreed to pay a $300,000 civil penalty to settle allegations that the company failed to report a hazard with its gas grills, according to a Consumer Product Safety Commission report last week. CPSC alleged that the firm failed to report a defect with Nexgrill Gas Grill Model 720-0025 in a timely manner,...

• Consumer Reports Retracts Infant Car Seat Study

  IB Contributor | January 19, 2007 12:18 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Consumer Reports magazine is now saying that the study it released earlier this month stating that most infant car seats failed when tested in high-speed vehicle crashes, is actually flawed.The magazine posted the retraction on its Web site, www.consumerreports.com, after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration officials pointed out that the side-impact tests were actually conducted...

• Foreign Object (Flesh w/Hair) Found in Prego Spaghetti

  IB Contributor | January 18, 2007 1:13 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Email inquiry I received regarding an adultrated food product, followed by my answer:I found piece of flesh with hair in my prego spaghetti sauce. I'm working with the company but what type of lawyer would be used for that?My Answer:Unless you have suffered injury, in my opinion you are wasting your time if you are seeking to recover money. Campbell Soup Company is not likely to provide much in...

• Food Poisoning At Carl's Jr.

  IB Contributor | January 18, 2007 12:51 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  This is an email inquiry that I received about food poisoning followed by my answer:In the late evening of 10/18/06 my son Nicholas ate a hamburger at a Carl's Jr. in Orange County, California and within a few hours he became ill with severe abdominal cramps,vomiting, diarrhea, nausea and fever throughout the night. In the morning we took him to his Doctor who after a short examination asked...

• Cell Phone Fire Leaves Man in Critical Condition

  IB Contributor | January 18, 2007 12:17 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA

  Are you carrying a bomb around with you?On Saturday night, Luis Picaso, a 59-year-old man from Vallejo, Calif. Was in critical condition at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento after a cell phone caught fire in his pants, according to a report in consumeraffairs.com.The phone ignited Picaso's clothes as he was sleeping in a hotel room and he reportedly suffered burns on 50 percent of his body....