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Parents should be aware of a hidden danger that could cause serious injury and even death to young children – small button cell batteries found in bathroom scales, remote controls, iPod chargers, and even musical greeting cards. If ingested, the tiny lithium batteries can bore holes through tiny a esophagus and surrounding organs causing serious and often permanent problems.
“This inspection report is pretty close to being the worst I’ve seen,” said David Lebo, a professor of pharmaceutical manufacturing at Temple University, about the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspection report of a Johnson & Johnson plant located in Fort Washington, Penn., that makes several popular over-the-counter drugs for children. “It suggests that basically the FDA found an issue with almost every system at the plant.”
Quality and security lapses identified during a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigation has led to the temporary suspension of production at Johnson & Johnson’s McNeill PPC drug manufacturing plant, located in Fort Washington, Penn., where children’s Tylenol, Motrin, Benadryl and Zyrtec were made. The investigation was followed by a recall of 1,500 lots of the brand name over-the-counter products distributed in the U.S. and internationally. The FDA says it is considering more actions against the company, including possible criminal penalties.
The board of Massey Energy, parent company and owner of Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia where 29 miners died in explosion earlier this month, is seeking a public relations boost from a Texas-based firm with political connections.
Massey Energy, owner of the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia, where at least 25 miners were killed on Monday, has had a long record of serious safety violations, many of which portended Monday’s tragic explosion and subsequent collapse of the mining shaft.
Wyoming has become the 20th state to ban texting while driving, surprising many opponents given the state’s traditional reluctance to impose restrictions on drivers. Under the new law, which takes effect on July 1 of this year, drivers caught texting behind the wheel will receive a $75.00 fine.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has developed a legal template that will help states develop legislation banning the act of texting behind the wheel. The sample law is modeled after the Executive Order issued by President Obama in October of last year that prohibited federal employees from texting while driving.
The Department of Transportation has announced on Tuesday new rules that ban commercial truck and bus drivers from texting while driving. The new rule is part of a growing national effort to crack down on the epidemic of distracted driving that kills 6,000 people every year and injures 500,000 more.
Distracted Driving has become the new epidemic in the United States. It’s a problem that has swept into every corner of the country, killing six thousand people every year and injuring half a million more. Unlike most epidemics, however, the only known cure for distracted driving is awareness and responsibility.
According to the Department of Transportation, every year in the United States, more than half a million people are seriously injured in traffic accidents caused by “distracted drivers.” An additional 6,000 people die in distracted-driving accidents, the latest victims of drivers whose attention was fixed on something other than the road. Distracted drivers cause one-third of all the traffic accidents on America’s roads and highways, and some safety experts say these figures are actually much higher because it’s not always possible to determine the underlying causes of many traffic accidents.
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