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• Beware of Pet Food Tainted with Rat Poison

  Ricky Bagolie | March 24, 2007 3:02 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  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 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  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...

• Bad Pet Food Causes Kidney Failure & Death

  Ricky Bagolie | March 22, 2007 8:26 AM | 1 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Pet food giant, Menu Foods, has recalled more than 60 million cans and pouches of wet style dog and cat food after it has been linked to kidney failure and death in many pets. The company, based in Canada, has plants in Kansas and New Jersey that produced the tainted food. A full list of the recalled products may be found at www.menufoods.com/recall.Menu Foods may be subject to lawsuits on...

• Beware of Increase Risk Due to Some Birth Control

  Ricky Bagolie | March 01, 2007 8:18 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  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...