Ohio parents with a baby in their home should be aware of a recall of 600,000 baby monitors by Angelcare. Two infants were strangled after getting tangled with the cord that runs to the monitor's sensor pad. The company is recalling several models that currently don't...
Month: November 2013
60,000 Chevy Malibu cars recalled
On Nov. 15, General Motors issued a recall that affected 60,000 of its Chevy Malibu mid-sized automobiles, including 44,000 2014-model-year vehicles. GM said that its dealers would fix the issues free of charge and that the firm wasn't aware of any accidents that had...
Weight loss supplement recalled in wake of 56 hepatitis cases
Ohio consumers who use weight loss supplements should take note of a recent recall. A dietary supplement used for weight loss has been linked recently to 56 serious hepatitis cases and one death. A 48-year-old woman died in Hawaii on Oct. 9 within weeks of taking the...
Are Ohio consumers at risk of salad-kit Listeria?
In late October, the Food and Drug Administration issued a recall of a salad dressing product used in a widely distributed broccoli salad kit. The salads were deemed hazardous materials because they may have been contaminated with the bacterium Listeria. Shortly...