HoMedics® received complaints of user burns and fires to bedding, clothing and houses that were started by the heating pads. The FDA learned about these complaints during an FDA inspection of HoMedics®. The inspection also revealed quality system deficiencies related to design controls, complaint
From MedWatch – The FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting ProgramBarodon SF and FDA notified consumers and healthcare professionals of a voluntary nationwide recall of a supplement product sold under the name V.MAX. Lab analysis by FDA of product samples found the product contains Amino
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist requested a $5,000,000 settlement for the parents of Martin Anderson, a 14-year-old who died at a Panama City boot camp last year, allegedly due to injuries from the boot camp’s guards. The settlement needs to be approved by the state legislature and came shortly after inc
Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. was ordered to pay $47.5 million in damages after a New Jersey jury decided that the company’s Vioxx medication was responsible for an Idaho man’s heart attack. The jury awarded $20 million in compensatory damages to Frederick Humeston and his wife and then tacked on
FDA Warns Consumers Not to Drink “Jermuk” Brand Mineral Water Due to possible Arsenic ContaminationThe US Food and Drug Administrationis warning consumers not to drink certain brands of mineral water imported from Armenia due to the risk of exposure to arsenic, a toxic substance and known cause of c
Bausch & Lomb announced today that it is recalling 1.5 million bottles of ReNu MultiPlus contact-lens solution because trace levels of iron were found in the product. Iron may cause “discoloration” of the solution and may cause its effectiveness to deteriorate before the printed expiration date. The
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that evidence of salmonella contamination was found after an inspection of ConAgra’s production facility in Sylvester, Georgia. The samples taken matched the strain of salmonella that was found in jars of contaminated Peter Pan and Great Value pe
The first patients fell ill as far back as August, but most cases have appeared in the past three months. Symptoms of salmonella infection include diarrhea, fever, abdominal cramps, and the effects usually last four to seven days. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported th
Hershey said they do not get any of their peanut butter from ConAgra which manufactured the infected Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter, but the FDA has not ruled out the possibility.The case of the tainted peanut butter is ongoing, with investigators still trying to follow the trail of Salmone
Joseph Erin Hamley, who had cerebral palsy, was shot while officers searched for a Michigan prison escapee. Police have signed an agreement with Hamley’s estate that’s dependent on the state’s approval of $1 million for the settlement.Arkansas governor Mike Beebe requested $1 million of the state’s
Barkay died of a bacterial infection in the hospital. Barkay and her husband, William, had purchased a jar of Peter Pan peanut butter in November. The jar in question was part of the batch recalled by ConAgra earlier this month. No one in the family had connected their illnesses to the peanut butter
ConAgra is recalling all peanut butter that have product codes beginning with “2111”. You can find the product number on the lid of the peanut butter jar.Nearly 300 people in 39 states have been infected by the tainted peanut butter. New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee and Missouri have show
