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• Team Work Trading Expands Children’s Pendant Recall

  
  NewsInferno — Authority: 486
  A recall of children’s metal pendants has been expanded by Team Work Trading, of Los Angeles, Calif. According to the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC), the recalled metal pendants contain excessive amounts of lead.The expanded recall includes eleven types of metal pendants sold with silver-colored chains. ...
  14 hours ago

• Stryker Corp. Recalls Operating Room System II Surgical Navigation Systems

  
  NewsInferno — Authority: 486
  Stryker Corporation’s Instruments division has initiated a worldwide, Class 1 recall of 23 Operating Room System II Surgical Navigation Systems. A Class 1 recall is the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) most serious type of recall, and involves situations in which there is a reasonable probability that ...
  14 hours ago

• More Children’s Clothing Recalled for Strangulation Hazard

  
  NewsInferno — Authority: 486
  Just last week we wrote that more dangerous children’s hooded sweatshirts and jackets were sold in violation of U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) regulations. Today, we are writing about two more similar recalls.In 1997, industry adopted a voluntary standard for drawstrings that incorporated CPSC ...
  15 hours ago

• Salmonella Fears Prompt Watermelon Recall

  
  NewsInferno — Authority: 486
  Timco Worldwide Inc. is recalling a limited number of its Large Seedless Watermelons because the watermelons have the potential to be contaminated with the dangerous, sometimes deadly, Salmonella pathogen. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), no illnesses have been reported, to date, in connection ...
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• Chinese Drywall Probe Also Looking at Domestic Wallboard

  
  NewsInferno — Authority: 486
  The Chinese drywall investigation is being expanded because of allegations that some wallboard produced in the U.S. is causing similar odor and corrosion problems. According to the Associated Press, of roughly 2,100 drywall complaints received by the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC), about 25 involve ...
  17 hours ago

• Liability Laws And New Products

  
  Your Online Security Authority Blog — Authority: 513
  The tightening of liability laws in the United States in recent decades has had positive and negative effects on those who make new products. “Strict liability” means that if a consumer is injured by a defective product, they can sue the manufacturer even if they bought it from a retailer. An implied warranty ...
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• Lemon Laws May Not Garb Recreational Vehicles

  
  Lili Design Studio — Authority: 126
  Although the outlay of gasoline continues to climb upwards, Americans quiescent be partial to driving recreational vehicles. They are grown-up and ungainly, and manoeuvre exhausted gas mileage, but the convenience of driving a conduit that also contains some of the comforts of home is appealing, principally since an ...
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• Microsoft leaks tool that lets law enforcement turn off your hard disk encryption, clear your passwords, and scoop up batches of evidence.

  
  Ryan's Blog — Authority: 104
  Oops. I’ve maintained for some time that Microsoft has programs that fit on bootable USB sticks and allow law enforcement to override your Microsoft Bitlocker, Encrypted File System (EFS), and password data, and gather all your private information to use against you later in a criminal trial. That system is ...
  2 days ago

• Pop-Up Store Phenomenon

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 180
  CBS News business correspondent Anthony Mason reports on the emergence of pop-up stores, an unusual trend as retailers aim to stay resourceful during a recession holiday shopping season.
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• Largest Toyota Recall Ever

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 180
  Automaker heavyweight Toyota has announced the largest manufacturer recall in that corporations history, as over 4 million cars may feature a defective accelerator pedal. Jim Axelrod reports.
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• Defective Gas Pedals to be Fixed in 3.8 Million Lexus and Toyota Vehicles

  
  Attorney At Law — Authority: 442
  Toyota Motor Corp. will either fix or replace the gas pedals in 3.8 million Toyota and Lexus vehicles following reports of the pedals becoming pinned beneath ill-fitting floor mats, causing the vehicles to speed out of control.In one such incident, an off-duty California Highway Patrol officer and three members of his ...
  2 days ago

• Chinese Drywall Victims Face Knauf Plasterboard Lawsuit Deadline Next Week

  
  NewsInferno — Authority: 486
  Chinese drywall victims whose homes were built with wallboard manufactured by Knauf Plasterboard (Tianjin) Co., Ltd are just one week away from a make-or-break deadline. They have until December 2, 2009 to join an omnibus class action lawsuit that will be filed against Knauf on December 9. Knauf Plasterboard has ...
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• Toyota to Recall 110,000 Tundra Trucks Due to Rust

  
  Attorney At Law — Authority: 442
  About 110,000 Toyota Tundra trucks from model years 2000 to 2003 will be recalled because of excessive rust on the vehicle’s frame where the spare tire is held in place, officials said today.Owners of trucks covered by the recall who live in 21 “cold weather” regions of the United States are encouraged to ...
  3 days ago

• Carbon Monoxide Risks Prompt Recall of Electrolux ICON and Kenmore PRO Gas Ranges

  
  Attorney At Law — Authority: 442
  About 900 Electrolux ICON and Kenmore Pro gas ranges are being recalled because the appliances may incompletely burn, releasing carbon monoxide and posing a risk of poisoning users.Electrolux Home Products Inc., of Augusta, Ga. and the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the voluntary recall today. An ...
  3 days ago

• Chinese Drywall Corrosion Problems Confirmed by CPSC Study

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 541
  Federal investigators say that they have found evidence that confirms a link between Chinese drywall and corrosion problems being reported by homeowners across the country. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced on Monday that results from a major indoor air study and two corrosion studies ...
  3 days ago

• Stork Craft Drop-Side Cribs Recalled, Dangerous

  
  DC Metro Area Personal Injury Law Blog — Authority: 411
  Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, Esquire CNNMoney.com reports that the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently recalled 2.1 million cribs, citing defective hardware that can cause children to suffocate. The federal agency "said parents ...
  3 days ago

• Chinese Drywall Lawsuits, Investigation Make Major Progress

  
  NewsInferno — Authority: 486
  There have been some important Chinese drywall developments in recent days. A date has been chosen for the first federal trial involving Chinese drywall lawsuits, and federal regulators have finally tied the tainted wallboard to corrosion seen in homes. What’s more, an important deadline for filing a lawsuit ...
  3 days ago

• Reports of dead and damaged Core i7 iMacs on the rise

  
  Boy Genius Report — Authority: 774
  As if waiting weeks to receive a custom ordered Core i7 iMac wasn’t bad enough, Apple forums the world wide web over are filling up with reports of computers showing up with broken displays an/or simply not booting up. Giz seems to think that the packaging might be inadequate for the 27″ behemoths and the ...
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• Stork Craft recalls defective drop-side cribs in US and Canada

  
  Ub News — Authority: 522
  Stork Craft Manufacturing Inc has announced that the company is voluntarily recalling more than 2 million cribs sold in the U.S. and Canada. The cribs subject to the recall include Stork Craft cribs made between January 1993 and October 2009 including 147,000 with the Fisher-Price logo. The Company has decided to take ...
  3 days ago

• Stork Craft Cribs Recalled Following Deaths, Injuries

  
  NewsInferno — Authority: 486
  As expected, the largest crib recall in U.S. history has been announced by the U.S Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC). The recall involves 2.1 million drop side cribs made by Stork Craft Manufacturing Inc. that pose an entrapment and suffocation hazard to infants. These cribs have proven to be extremely ...
  4 days ago

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