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• Everlasting Distributors, Inc. Recalls Smoked Mackerel Due to Potential Contamination

  Jenny Albano | August 17, 2007 11:18 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  Everlasting Distributors, in conjunction with the FDA, is recalling Blue Ocean Smoked Mackerel because it may be contaminated with the bacterium that causes botulism. Botulism is a rare, but very serious food-borne illness that can cause paralysis and even death.Blue Ocean Smoked Mackerel was distributed in New York and New Jersey areas and it reached consumers through retail stores. Blue...

• Three Workers Killed in Indiana Mine Accident

  Courtney Mills | August 10, 2007 3:11 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  Workers at a coal mine in Princeton, Indiana were mounting an air shaft in a transport when three were killed Friday morning. Although the details are still very sketchy, the transport appeared to have fallen in the shaft, and the men were killed as a result of the fall.The coroner, the only official charged with releasing any information on the scene, was not commenting on any details...

• Drunk Girlfriend Ran Over, and Killed Boyfriend

  Jenny Albano | July 24, 2007 3:00 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  On Saturday night, a man trying to stop his girlfriend from drinking and driving ended up being dragged under the girlfriend's car and died. Jesenia Vega was leaving a block party to drive home, when her boyfriend, Louis Wiederer, tried to stop her. According to a witness he told her,"You're going to get arrested, you can't drive like that." Wiederer was hanging onto the open side window of...

• Train Crew Fired Due to Man's Death

  Jenny Albano | July 11, 2007 12:18 PM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  A New Jersey Transit train crew was found to have violated operating procedures after a man's death in November, and as a consequence have been fired. The three crew members-the engineer, the conductor, and the assistant conductor- are appealing the ruling.NJ Transit rules require one member of the train crew to be at the rear door of the last car, observing the platform through the window. ...

• Former Chinese Drug Chief Executed

  Jenny Albano | July 10, 2007 11:42 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  On July 10th, the former drug and food safety chief of China, Zheng Xiaoyu, was executed. The Supreme People's Court agreed upon the death sentence after he was convicted of accepting bribes of around $850,000 from eight different companies and neglecting his duties.Zheng, head of administration from 1998 to 2005, was sentenced on May 29 and his appeal was heard last month. Under rules...

• Congress Fails in Hursing Home Abuse Oversight

  Ricky Bagolie | April 24, 2007 9:10 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  An article in the New York Times over a six year period, Congress has failed in it's oversite of bad care in nursing homes. Bad homes that mistreated their residents received minimal or no penalties. This is no surprise as the billion dollar nursing home industry has many legislatures in their deep pockets. Nursing home residents who receive bad care or are mistreated may have the right to...

• Job Caused Cancers on the Rise

  Ricky Bagolie | April 19, 2007 8:23 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  According to the International Metalworkers Federation,A new cancer prevention guide, reveals that over 600,000 deaths a year - one death every 52 seconds - are caused by occupational cancer, making up almost one-third of all work-related deaths. Workers are exposed to many types of potential cancer causing agents. Very often the cancer may develop after the worker retires from the job. Any...

• Beware of Pet Food Tainted with Rat Poison

  Ricky Bagolie | March 24, 2007 3:02 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  An investigation has revealed that the recalled pet food produced by Menu Foods was tainted with the rat poison aminopterin. Dogs and cats that have eaten the bad food have suffered from kidney failure and death. Over 60 million cans and pouches of the Company's "wet pet" food, some of which was canned in New Jersey and sold in over 90 brands, have been recalled. Contact Bagolie Friedman...

• Firefighters Heart Risk Covered By Workers' Compensation

  Ricky Bagolie | March 23, 2007 8:01 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  According to the Houston Chronice, a recent Harvard Study finds that firefighters run a 100 times greater risk of a heart reated death whie putting out a fire than when they are not fighting fires. Thirty two percent of the heart related deaths occurred this way. Heart disease, caused by exposures to diesel fumes and carbon monoxide and heart attacks caused by the stress of fighting fires...

• Beware of Increase Risk Due to Some Birth Control

  Ricky Bagolie | March 01, 2007 8:18 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  Public watchdog Public Citizen hs petitioned the FDA to ban all third generation oral contraceptives containing the incredient desogestrel because it nearly doubles the risk of life threatening blodd clots when compared to the older forms of the pill."The FDA must ensure the well-being and safety of women in the U.S. and ban third-generation oral contraceptives containing desogestrel," the...