Defective & Dangerous Products

• Five People Positive for Salmonella in Illinois

  Jamie G. Goldstein | February 16, 2007 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  A salmonella outbreak has affected at least five people in Illinois. As previously posted, the FDA issued a recall for Peter Pan peanut butter made by ConAgra. The peanut butter as been the cause of ongoing cases of salmonella since August of 2006.New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee and Missouri have reported the most cases of salmonella related to the peanut butter thus far. The...

• High Rate of Heart Device Recalls

  Staff Writer | May 22, 2006 11:51 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  A study based on FDA records for the last 10 years found that 164,000 external defibrillators (one out of every five) were subject to recall or agency alert. The data included 370 reports of deaths in which the defibrillator malfunctioned. Actually, the number was much higher, 801 adverse-event reports associated with death, but the study only counted the cases in which an emergency worker...