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Choking risks, dangerous chemical ingredients and excessively loud noise are the top features toy shoppers should try to avoid this holiday season as they load up on children's gifts and stocking stuffers.
Choking risks, dangerous chemical ingredients and excessively loud noise are the top features toy shoppers should try to avoid this holiday season as they load up on children's gifts and stocking stuffers.
Millions of people will spend the next few weeks rejoicing in the holiday spirit, but a few bad apples may see the holiday season as a time to exploit others and take advantage of other folks.
We recently inspected a home and found a Federal Pacific Electric circuit breaker panel, once one of the most common panels installed in American homes. Most of these FPE panels have been replaced, but we still run across one every once in a while, and it always puts us in a bit of a quandary.
STRATTON -- A new set of safety regulations initiated by Intrawest, the parent company of Stratton Mountain and eight other ski areas in North America, will require all participants in youth and terrain park education programs there to wear a helmet during the upcoming season.
Report Pointed Finger at China for Most Defective Drywall; But Investigation Found Similar Problems in U.S.-Made Product..
The Fontana Fire Protection District is in the process of advising all the residents of the City of Fontana regarding a recall of a type of fire sprinkler head.
Holiday decorations are on sale, but experts say make sure you’re careful when putting them up.
Stryker Corporation’s Instruments division has initiated a worldwide, Class 1 recall of 23 Operating Room System II Surgical Navigation Systems. A Class 1 recall is the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) most serious type of recall, and involves situations in which there is a reasonable probability that use of these products will cause [...]
Just last week we wrote that more dangerous children’s hooded sweatshirts and jackets were sold in violation of U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) regulations. Today, we are writing about two more similar recalls. In 1997, industry adopted a voluntary standard for drawstrings that incorporated CPSC guidelines. In May 2006, the CPSC’s Office of Compliance issued [...]
MANATEE — As the Chinese drywall saga unfolded during the past year, one figure has been widely and often repeated: 100,000.
A news article in Nature looks into the problems inherited by the new FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg: "The FDA, once globally revered as the gold standard in regulation of food and medical-product safety, has lapsed repeatedly in recent years under a string of different leaders and a long stretch without any permanent chief," the article says.
MCCONNELLSBURG -- Craig Paylor, president of JLG Industries has been elected vice chairman of Construction of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers, the North American-based international trade group for companies that manufacture equipment, products and services used worldwide in the agricultural, construction, forestry, mining and utility sectors.
With a 2-year-old son and another baby on the way, Jeff and Jessica Clochesy are keenly interested in crib safety. So the Champaign couple were relieved to learn that this week's massive crib recall did not include their model, which they bought secondhand several years ago.
Clear non-phthalate RNR Child-Safe Vinyl is double-polished, CPSIA- and TPCH-compliant material that is safe for manufacturing and packaging children's products. Available off-the-shelf in 6-12 ga thicknesses, recyclable DPC vinyl can be used for manufacturing made-to-order vinyl pockets, sleeves, and display holders in variety of styles and sizes from 2 in.2 up to 24 x 36 in. It can be used for ...
Toymakers told to get the lead out. Mary Parks reports.
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