Each year, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issues approximately 400 recalls for products that are dangerous or defective. Last month alone (April 2020), there were 23 products recalled, including ATVs, electric appliances, children products, and essential oils, because they posed a dangerous risk to consumers. Any company that designs and/or manufactures products has a…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an announcement on April 1, 2020, that it is implementing a full recall of all prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) ranitidine drugs from the market immediately. The brand name for these drugs is Zantac, the popular heartburn medication. There are concerns that the medication could introduce a cancer-causing…
Paying more than $650 million to settle state and federal charges for illegally marketing OxyContin and covering up fatal overdose risks did not stop the drug’s maker from aggressively pushing its dangerous product.
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) reports there were 38.5 million people who sought medical treatment for a consumer product injury in 2010. Not every one of these those cases was necessarily directly due to product defects, the CPSC notes. But it is reasonable for us to assume that at least some of them were. There also were…
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), more than $1 trillion is spent each year because of unreasonable risks of death or injury caused by products consumers use. The agency is in charge of protecting the public from these types of risks and can be aggressive in their pursuit. One of the tools the…