Archive for 'FDA & Pescription Drugs' Category

J&J Recalls Rolaids Products due to Foreign Material such as Metal and Wood

McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a Division of McNEIL-PPC, Inc. and part of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, has announced a recall of Rolaids products due to reports of foreign materials, including pieces of metal and wood. Consumers use Rolaids products for the relief of heartburn, acid indigestion, sour stomach and gas. According to an [...]

Toyota Recalling 94,000 Popular Minivans for Brake Defect

Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc. announced that the company is recalling 94,000 model year 2011 Sienna Minivans due to a defect that could affect the vehicle’s brakes. This recall only applies to 2011 Sienna Minivans produced before early November 2010. This voluntary recall addresses a design problem with the Sienna’s stop lamp switch bracket, which [...]

Darvon and Darvocet (propoxyphene) pulled from the market due to Cardiac Side Effects

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that the agency has requested manufacturers of propoxyphene, brand name Darvon, Darvocet and its generic equivalents, be voluntarily withdrawn from the market due to serious and fatal heart risks. Physicians prescribe propoxyphene, an opioid analgesic, for the treatment of mild to moderate pain, such as pain [...]

NJ Contractor on OSHA’s Severe Violator Enforcement Program after blatant disregard of worker safety

Repeat safety violations for fall hazards has landed stucco contractor Exterior Stucco Systems Inc, of Wayne, NJ, in the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) program for recalcitrant employers. The Severe Violator Enforcement Program (SVEP) focuses on inspection of employers who endanger workers by demonstrating indifference to their responsibilities under the [...]

How your antibiotic use today can cause your own or someone else’s death in the future

Overprescribing and misuse of antibiotics creates “super bugs” that are resistant to antibiotics, endangering the lives of people who develop these dangerous infections. However, people can prevent antibiotic resistant bacteria, save their own life and ultimately the lives of others by learning when and how to use antibiotics properly. Antibiotic resistant infections are one of [...]

FDA finds Problems with Defibrillator Designs, Vows to Work with Manufacturers

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that the agency has identified problems in the manufacturing and design of external defibrillators, and will work with makers of these products to develop safer, more effective devices in its External Defibrillator Improvement Initiative. External defibrillators diagnose when a heart rhythm is abnormal or stopped and [...]

Feds Capture Fugitive Woman who Falsified Hundreds of Asbestos Training Certificates

Federal officials captured Fugitive Albania Deleon, who endangered the public by falsifying asbestos certification documents in Massachusetts, in the Dominican Republic after she was on the run for nineteen months since her sentencing hearing in 2008. “Albania Deleon put communities at risk by issuing fraudulent asbestos-removal training certificates to hundreds of untrained workers,” said Cynthia [...]

OSHA Fines NY and PA Contractors in Scaffolding Collapse that Injured Six

After an investigation of a scaffolding collapse at a New York college that injured six workers, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited and fined two contractors for safety violations. The scaffolding collapse occurred on June 2, 2010 at Binghamton University in Vestal, NY where the construction of new [...]

Toyota and Honda Recall Vehicles to Fix Brake Problem

Toyota Motor Sales, USA Inc. announced today that it is recalling approximately 740,000 vehicles in the U.S. due to a potential brake fluid leak caused by wear of a rubber seal. Shortly afterward, American Honda Motor Co. Inc. said it too was recalling vehicles for the same defect. According to the Toyota release, if during [...]

4 Infants Died in Graco Strollers from 2003-2005, Recall of 2 Million Strollers Finally Issued Today

Graco Children’s Products, Inc. is recalling about two million strollers because four children died between 2003 and 2005, and at least five children injured, in the strollers from entrapment and strangulation. Consumers should stop using the Graco Quattro and Graco MetroLite Strollers immediately. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Graco have received four [...]