from Food Safety News

Nearly 2 Million Pounds of Frozen, Raw Stuffed Chicken Products Recalled
July 16, 2015

Aspen Foods, a division of Koch Poultry Company of Chicago is recalling approximately 1,978,680 pounds of frozen, raw, stuffed and breaded chicken product that may be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis.

The frozen, raw, stuffed and breaded ( Read more... )

Posted in February; from the March subscriber newsletter.

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GM recalls air bags that don't deploy when you have too many keysIt's a bad day when you're driving along, and your engine suddenly shuts off. But that's one of the least of the worries for ( Read more... )

Calphalon blender blade breaks in Consumer Reports’ tests
Metal fragment could be accidentally ingested
When blenders flunk our tough durability test, it’s typically because their motors burn out or their gears fail. But the Calphalon XL 9-speed 1832449, $130, failed for a far more troubling reason: A knife-sharp fragment broke off from the same ( Read more... )

USA Today
Whole Foods Market Inc. is recalling Crave Brothers Les Freres cheese in response to an outbreak of a bacterial infection that has sickened people in several states and killed at least one.

Crave Cheese Les Frères®
(pronounced lay frair) This European style cheese was developed with care to reflect the Crave Brothers' Irish-French heritage. ( Read more... )

from Consumer Reports

Manufacturer recalls 554,000 LED bulbs from four major brands
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CPSC tries to stop sale of super-magnetic 'Buckyballs'
The Consumer Product Safety Commission filed a lawsuit aimed at stopping the sale of Buckyballs, a popular magnetic desk toy. The agency has received mounting reports of children swallowing the high-powered Buckyballs. Many of the children required surgery as a result. Read our report on ( Read more... )

rymrytr has just posted on LiveJournal a link to some child safety alerts on the LiveJournal recall-notice community, whose title is Recalls: CPSC, FDA, USDA, NHTSA, Health Canada, and which apparently they maintain single-handed. I cannot praise them highly enough for this effort!

If you have kids, check it out. Even if you don't -- like, if you have a ( Read more... )

CPSC report via ConsumerReports.org:Spin Master Agrees to $1.3 Million Civil Penalty for Failing to Report Aqua Dots and for Selling a Banned Hazardous Substance
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today that Spin Master, Inc. of Los Angeles, California, and Spin Master Ltd. of Toronto, Canada, ("Spin ( Read more... )

Funny: "Sports-related head injury numbers are staggering." (Well, sort of.)

Not funny: That's from the second paragraph of First down (and out cold); Football helmets fail to protect against concussions on the Consumer Reports safety blog

October 5, 2010 Lights out: 124,000 CFLs recalled

Eastern American Trio Products is recalling 124,000 compact fluorescent light bulbs because they can overheat and catch fire. The company has four reports of incidents, including two fires.

The bulbs were sold in discount stores in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut from ( Read more... )