News tagged with 'Children'

Better check your shelves for packages of Fruit Loops and Corn Pops after Kellogg's announces a recall of 28 million boxes of cereal for an "off" smell. Five people claim to have been sickened.

Seven crib manufacturers are announcing recalls to repair cribs that can trap and suffocate infants. This is the latest industry-wide initiative to fix inherent problems with the drop-side cribs, which the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced will be phased-out. Watch for the cribs on the resale market and in garage sales.

Sandwich shop, Subway, is apologizing for a Salmonella outbreak in central Illinois that has hospitalized 24. Everyone has recovered. At least one is suing.

Flame retardants, found in the blood of pregnant women are correlated with lower levels of thyroid stimulating hormone. The malfunction is linked to miscarriage, premature birth and intrauterine growth retardation.

IKEA along with the government is recalling more than 3 million window blinds after a child nearly strangled earlier this year on a hanging cord. That brings to 4.5 million blinds recalled over the strangulation hazard.

Valproic acid (Depakote) is prescribed to control the seizures of epilepsy, but for pregnant women the drug can cause birth defects if taken in the first trimester.

Take those Shrek glasses back to McDonald's for a full refund after an anonymous source informed a California congresswoman that they contained the metal cadmium. The government is issuing a recall for 12 million of the glasses.

As part of a major investigation into the hazards of baby slings, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued another recall for a defective product, this time the Sprout Stuff Sling, associated with the death of a 10-day-old Texas boy.

PediaCare cold medications have been recalled because they were produced at the same problematic manufacturing plant as the recently recalled Children's Tylenol products. The FDA says criminal sanctions are being considered against McNeil/Johnson & Johnson.

The FDA needs mandatory recall authority to deal with problematic manufacturing plants such as the one that makes Children's Tylenol, lawmakers concluded at a hearing Thursday. A J & J executive told lawmakers that six key personnel have been let go and that the situation is "unacceptable" though no children have been hurt.

Johnson & Johnson is facing an expanded probe into its manufacturing practices after four recalls in seven months, the most recent at a Pennsylvania plant that makes Children's Tylenol products. The FDA tells parents to choose generics over Tylenol.

"Best Friends" charm bracelets for children sold in the jewelry store, Claire's, are being removed from store shelves after an investigation by the Associated Press found they contained high levels of the toxic metal, cadmium. Those levels have now been confirmed by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Expect a round of positive PR even though McNeil's Fort Washington, Pennsylvania manufacturing plant remains closed and the source and type of contaminant of childrens over-the-counter cold and allergy meds remains a mystery.

The environmental and industrial exposures to cancer are grossly underestimated finds a panel advising the president on cancer causes.

The FDA is taking its recall of children's Tylenol products one step further and advising parents to choose generic cold medications after an inspection report of the plant reveals lapsed quality controls.