Posts tagged lead

• Herbalife Products: A Lead Risk?

  Dan Frith | May 21, 2008 7:04 AM | 6 CommentsRoanoke, VA Category: Toxic Substances
  

  Do you know someone who takes Herbalife products? Herbalife is global nutrition and weight-management company, whose stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange. If you know someone who is...

• Keeping a Closer Watch on Patients with Pacemakers and Defibrillators

  Dan Frith | May 18, 2008 1:30 PM | 1 CommentRoanoke, VA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  You probably know someone who has a pacemaker or defibrillator implanted in their chest. An estimated 180,000 pacemaker devices and 91,000 implantable defibrillators were implanted in the U.S. in...

• Lead in Astroturf: This Could be Trouble

  Dan Frith | April 25, 2008 6:14 AM | 2 CommentsRoanoke, VA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Recent reports indicate there may be health hazards linked to lead in the artificial turf currently installed in schools, parks, and stadiums nationwide and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety...

• Maine Lawmaker wants Lead Paint Registry

  Dan Frith | March 29, 2008 6:55 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Kudos to Maine's Speaker of the House Glenn Cummings! He is sponsoring a bill that would create a state registry of homes that have been declared lead-free, so that people with children can make sure the home they're buying is safe.And Speaker Cummings knows something about the effects of lead paint on children....His son was diagnosed with lead poisoning about a decade ago. Lead poisoning...

• Lead Paint Manufacturers Attempt to Escape Responsibility

  Dan Frith | March 27, 2008 6:27 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  A Rhode Island jury in 2006 found three companies -- Sherwin-Williams Co., NL Industries, Inc. and Millennium Holdings LLC -- liable for creating a public nuisance by manufacturing a product that continues to poison children. The state filed the lawsuit against the manufacturers alleging that they had created a public nuisance by selling and promoting lead pigment for use in paint in Rhode...

• Botulism in Green Beans?

  Dan Frith | December 30, 2007 3:39 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers about a possible contamination with Clostridium botulinum of canned cut green beans manufactured by New Era Canning Company, New Era, Michigan and labeled as "GFS Fancy Blue Lake Cut Green Beans." The products were distributed in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee...

• Lead Paint in Children - scary scary

  Lauren Ellerman | December 15, 2007 2:54 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  We hear about toys from China made with lead paint causing harm to our children. More frequently, children poisoned by lead swallow or ingest it by eating paint chips. Now, at first glance, I could not understand how paint chips or peeling paint could be purposefully consumed by a child - but it happens and happens frequently! Cribs near windowsills, or small children within arms reach of...