According to documents recently released by the FDA, the agency knew about ongoing cleanliness and contamination issues at the Sturgis, Michigan Abbott facility implicated in contaminated baby formula since at least autumn of 2019. Among the infractions found by federal inspectors during their visit to the plant that manufactures Similac, Alimentum, and EleCare formulas were failures to maintain clean surfaces within the plant that were ...
Abbott Labs Facility at Center of Baby Formula Contamination Was Known to be Unsanitary
Posted April 5, 2022 in Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | Product News and Recalls
When Does Prescribing Turn into Dealing?
Posted March 31, 2022 in Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | Product News and Recalls
A case in front of the United States Supreme Court is currently exploring a difficult question. The issue at hand stems from the prior convictions of two medical doctors for narcotics violations when they were found to have been using their medical licenses to deal in opioids and other strong painkillers.
Xiulu Ruan and Shakeel Kahn had been found by lower juries to have been ...
continue reading...New Numbers Reveal Impact of Wage Theft in America
Posted March 29, 2022 in Product News and Recalls
Americans lose more money to wage left every year than businesses lose to shoplifting. The numbers were published in a recent post to Money.com and reveal that while American businesses lose upward of $14.7 billion each year to shoplifting, American workers lose approximately $17 billion each year to employers who use a variety of tactics to bilk them out of their wages.
The average wage ...
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Citing a need for improvement in the way Philips has handled its duty to notify patients of the recall of a variety of its ventilators and breathing aids, the FDA issued an order to the corporation earlier this month mandating a more open flow of information.
In a statement on the agency’s website, the director of its Center for Devices and Radiological Health acknowledged ...
continue reading...FDA Under Fire Over Failure to React to Baby Formula Crisis
Posted March 22, 2022 in Product News and Recalls | Recall
The Food and Drug Administration is once again the target of public ire over its seemingly glacial response to a U.S. consumer crisis. A recent story posted to Politico indicates that parents and their congressional representatives have begun raising serious questions about the amount of time that elapsed between the discovery of the first illness allegedly associated with infant formula contamination and the government’s response ...
1 Million Fitbits Recalled After Reports of Burn Injuries
Posted March 18, 2022 in Product News and Recalls | Recall
Google has initiated the recall of a million Fitbit Ionic devices after receiving reports of burns ranging from first- to third-degree from overheating batteries. The Ionic was in production from 2017 to 2020 and sold for approximately $300.
115 reports of overheating battery events have been received in the United States. 78 have been tied to injuries including four claims of second-degree burns and two users reporting ...
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