The plant in Georgia that produced peanut butter tainted by salmonella has a history of sanitation lapses and was cited repeatedly in 2006 and 2007 for having dirty surfaces and grease residue and dirt buildup throughout the plant, according to health inspection reports. Inspection reports from 2008 found the plant…
A new study finds that hundreds of young children in the Washington D.C. area experienced potentially damaging amounts of lead in their blood when lead levels were rising in the city’s tap water. In some neighborhoods, the number of toddlers and infants with blood-lead concentrations that can cause irreversible IQ…
More than 125 products have been recalled in a salmonella-and-peanuts investigation that keeps getting bigger, according to federal health officials. The list ranges from goodies like cookies and ice cream to energy bars. Even food for dogs may not be entirely safe, with a national company recalling some of its…
The Food and Drug Administration said that salmonella was found in a package of peanut butter sandwich crackers made by Kellogg. Kellogg said that a previously recalled peanut butter-sandwich cracker tested positive for salmonella. The outbreak has led to 474 reported illnesses and may have caused six deaths, according to…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed a link between peanut butter and a salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 400 people in 43 states. Health officials are telling nursing homes, hospitals, schools and restaurants to throw away containers of peanut butter that have been linked to the…
Six veterans who allege they were exposed to dangerous chemicals, germs and mind-altering drugs during Cold War experiments sued the CIA, Department of Defense and other agencies, in San Francisco Federal Court. The vets volunteered for military experiments they say were part of a wide-ranging program started in the 1950s…
A class action suit against the maker of a blood thinning Heparin drug claims the company is substituting safer ingredients – cooked, dried pig intestines – with more dangerous ones. Joyce Ann Osteen of Illinois is suing Baxter over its anticoagulant drug Heparin in St. Clair County Circuit Court. She…
TEXAS-Johnson County officials are concerned about “mud” spills, the mess that some companies leave behind when waste is hauled away from drilling sites. When trucks loaded with the mud used in the gas drilling process travel too fast along county roads, some of it spills out, and county officials are…
An appeal by Hanford contractors, has been rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court clearing the way for a settlement with almost 2,000 people exposed to radiation during the Manhattan Project and the early years of the Cold War. The contractors – E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co., General Electric…
W.R. Grace & Co. has agreed to pay up to $140 million to settle a class action lawsuit from its use of an attic-insulating product that contained asbestos. The chemicals maker company will pay $30 million cash into a trust fund, an additional $30 million cash after three years, and…