300,000 “Colorful Hearts Teddy Bears” sold online and in Build-A-Bear Workshop stores between April and December of this year have been recalled because of a potential choking hazard. According to Consumer Product Safety Commission, the eyes of the bear could loosen and come off, which…
Wal-Mart has removed a batch of baby formula from nearly 3,000 of its stores’ shelves after a Missouri infant became extremely ill the day after eating the formula. He later died after taken off of child support. The Enfamil Newborn formula with the lot number…
Today, Subaru issued a recall of many of their new 2012 model vehicles including the 2012 Outback, Impreza, and Legacy. The company says that only about 3,000 of these recalled vehicles have been sold already. Investigators found that the vehicles have an excessive and unsafe…
This week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of frozen oysters shipped to Colorado from Korean Farms in Santa Fe Springs, California. Officials say the product has been linked to three cases of a norovirus in Washington. The recalled product had the…
A jury in Massachusetts recently awarded a Colorado man $20.6 million in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against Toys ‘R Us over the death of his wife in an accident involving an inflatable slide. According to the lawsuit, the man and his wife were visiting…
Last week, officials recalled whole cantaloupes sold under the Rocky Ford brand after they were linked to a listeria outbreak. The cantaloupes came from a melon farm in Colorado. 4 deaths and 35 cases of illness linked to the recalled cantaloupes have been reported. 11…
According to the Colorado Springs Police Department, the vehicle involved in a fatal pedestrian accident in a parking lot at Chapel Hills Mall was unoccupied. Originally, police were investigating the accident as a hit-and-run. The accident occurred last week when an SUV hit two people…
Last week, Johnson & Johnson issued a recall of 2.5 million packages of their Tylenol Cold Multi-Symptom Nighttime Rapid Release Gelcaps. Officials issued the recall after investigators discovered unusually high levels of chlorpheniramine ammonio acetate in some of the capsules. The company says they have…
This week, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission released a report stating that the Fischer Price Little Builders’ Load ‘n Go wagon and building blocks set poses a laceration hazard to children. Mattel and Fischer Price subsequently issued a voluntary recall of around 208,000 of…
According to the Office of the Attorney General in Maryland, a landlord managing properties in Baltimore has plead guilty to three misdemeanor violations of the Toxic Substances Control Act for failing to tell his tenants about potential hazards from lead paint in the buildings. The…