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 ...
FDA Under Fire Over Failure to React to Baby Formula Crisis
Posted March 22, 2022 in Product News and Recalls | Recall
FDA Takes Significant Steps to Ban Vaping…Unless You’re a Billion-Dollar Corporation
Posted September 21, 2021 in Product News and Recalls
It wasn’t as bad as it could have been, but the FDA recently put all but the final nail in the coffin of the vaping industry by denying millions of applications to market and produce vaping products for distribution in the United States. The decision effectively killed a large number of small to mid-size producers of flavored vaping products
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Another Day, Another Story of the FDA Failing the American People
Posted August 31, 2021 in Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | Product News and Recalls
In a narrative that has become all too familiar when referring to one of the most openly corrupt institutions in the American government, reports have surfaced that the FDA knowingly allowed a faulty medical device to make its way into unwitting patients. This time the device in question is quite literally responsible for keeping patients’ blood circulating through their bodies.
The HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device, or HVAD ...
continue reading...Various Neutrogena and Aveeno Sunscreens Recalled in Latest Benzene Fallout
Posted July 30, 2021 in Product News and Recalls
Johnson & Johnson recently announced the voluntary recall of a number of its aerosol-based sunscreens as a result of ongoing concerns over benzene contamination of the products. The sunscreens in question are all aerosols and fall within the corporation’s Neutrogena and Aveeno product lines.
Benzene is a known human carcinogen, or a product that is known to cause cancer. And, while exposure to benzene on ...
continue reading...Who Exactly Does the FDA Serve?
Posted July 29, 2021 in Product News and Recalls
It’s no secret to anyone who has read this blog for any length of time that we have no difficulty with criticizing the Food and Drug Administration. It is a broken agency that is plagued by policies that seem written almost to invite corruption rather than make it less likely. As a personal injury law firm who has spent decades taking on the pharmaceutical industry and those ...
Online Pharmacy Finds Known Carcinogen in Multiple Sun Care Products
Posted June 30, 2021 in Product News and Recalls
Valisure, the online pharmacy responsible for discovering NDMA contamination of Zantac and benzene contamination of a significant number of brands of hand sanitizer at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the United States, has once again discovered contamination in products that would have otherwise gone unnoticed by federal regulators.
The pharmacy, known for its policy of independent product testing, has discovered traces of ...
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