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The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to permanently shut down a Brooklyn, New York-based maker of ready-to-eat deli salads, seafood, and cream cheeses. Food and Drug Administration inspectors say that NY Gourmet Salads Inc. has a history of serious non-compliance with federal food safety standards and the presence of potentially deadly bacteria in its processing facilities and foods.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been cracking down on shipments of hazardous materials and has published a notice of civil penalties issued against 11 companies. The FAA issued the fines in response to improperly packaged, marked, classed, described, or labeled hazardous materials. The penalties total $720,000 and range from $54,000 to $91,000.
New York will soon be the last state to pass a measure that allows citizens to file unilaterally for no-fault divorce, a move proponents say will reduce domestic violence and suicide rates among women. The measure was passed by the New York legislature on July 1, and Gov. David Paterson is expected to sign the legislation soon.
Wal-Mart is giving federal regulators the runaround in fighting a $7,000 fine that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration levied against the retailer for circumstances that led to the trampling death of an employee in 2008.
A 15-year-old boy was killed and two others injured when a 30-foot concrete panel detached from a parking garage and fell in Milwaukee, Wisconsin yesterday afternoon. The incident occurred just after 4 p.m. at a garage located underneath a park across from the Milwaukee Museum of Art. Officials say that the decorative concrete slab fell from the garage’s façade onto a road leading out of the structure.
San Francisco, California is poised to become the first city in the United States to order cell phone companies and manufacturers to disclose how much radiation their phones emit. Cell phone use has been linked to cancer and brain tumors by many medical researchers. Other researchers, however, say the studies are inconclusive or reject them outright.
Officials from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Bridgeport, Conn., office are investigating the scene of a bridge collapse that seriously injured a 59-year-old construction employee.
U.S. District Judge Berle M. Schiller has ruled that manufacturers of generic drugs are not protected from lawsuits even if the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) certifies them as the “bioequivalent” of their brand name predecessors. The lawsuit involved consumers who were previously taking the brand name antidepressant Wellbutrin.
The defendants allege after switching to a generic version of the drug, buproprion, made by Teva Pharmaceuticals and Impax Laboratories, they experienced side effects. The lawsuit contends Teva and Impax became aware of the side effects but failed to warn consumers. While the active ingredient in Wellbutin and buproprion is the same, the two have differing release rates, which the defendants say caused adverse events when they switched to bupropion.
Ultram (tramadol hydrochloride) and Ultracet (tramadol hydrochloride/acetaminophen), drugs used to treat moderate to moderately severe chronic pain, have updated warning labels to warn of the risk of suicide in some patients and possible misuse of the drug. Drug maker Ortho-McNeil-Janssen notified health care providers of the change in April 2010.
A Texas jury awarded the family of a 19-year-old woman $1.8 million after finding a defective seat design contributed to her death in a July 2007 traffic accident.
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