Category Archives: Safety

Up to 876,000 cars at risk from deadly exploding airbags

By doris | Published: December 4, 2011

Full Story at BottomLine.msnbc.msn.com Hundreds of thousands of Honda vehicles sold the United States are being recalled or will be inspected by the company because their airbags could potentially explode causing injury or death, the company said. In a notice posted in a PDF file on its website, the American Honda Co. said it was [...]

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Automakers take aim at drowsy driving

By doris | Published: December 2, 2011

Full Story at BottomLine.msnbc.msn.com If you’ve ever felt yourself nodding off when you’ve spent a little too much time behind the wheel you’re not alone. According to a recent study by the AAA Foundation more than two in five drivers admit they’ve fallen asleep, even for a moment, when driving. While most motorists now recognize [...]

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Australia may extend Tiger Airways grounding

By doris | Published: July 3, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com Aviation regulators were discussing Sunday whether to seek court approval to extend the grounding of Tiger Airways Australia, as the airline vowed to fix its problems and get back in the air. Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) on Saturday suspended all the budget carrier’s domestic services as they posed a [...]

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Drug shortages at all-time high

By doris | Published: June 12, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The number of drug shortages is at a record high, and the Food and Drug Administration is warning that they are getting even worse. Fueling the problem are shortages of raw materials. Also, drugmakers are discontinuing older, and off-patent drugs in favor of newer and more profitable [...]

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U.S. takes over three Tylenol plants

By doris | Published: March 10, 2011

Full Story atmoney.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The government is taking over three Tylenol plants following a blizzard of drug recalls and a Food and Drug Administration criminal investigation into safety issues at the factories. The FDA and the Justice Department on Thursday took action against McNeil PPC and two of its executives — its [...]

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Why Obama can’t save infrastructure

By doris | Published: February 17, 2011

Full Story atfinance.fortune.cnn.com Here are two things we all can agree on about America’s transportation infrastructure: (1) It is in desperate need of costly repairs, and (2) Our political leaders cannot agree on how to pay for them. President Obama dove into the conversation this week, proposing $556 billion in new infrastructure spending over the [...]

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China: The new landlord of the U.S.

By doris | Published: January 18, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — If you owed somebody a lot of money, let’s say for the sake of argument nearly $900 billion, you probably wouldn’t want to make this creditor angry, right? Tell that to President Obama, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and several members of Congress.

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Inventor sees a bright future for DogLight

By doris | Published: December 19, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com LOS ANGELES — Jackie Simoni is a computer geek turned inventor of a special light to make dogs safer after dark. Now, she’s also a government contractor. Simoni invented PupLight six years ago. She came up with the idea of a light that attaches to a collar while fumbling with a [...]

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SF supervisors pass ‘Happy Meal’ regulations

By doris | Published: November 3, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com SAN FRANCISCO — For some veggies-hating children, Happy Meals won’t be so happy anymore. City lawmakers on Tuesday approved legislation that they hope will force fast-food chains such as McDonald’s to make their children’s meals healthier or stop selling them with toys. The Board of Supervisors voted 8-3 to preliminarily approve [...]

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BMW recalls 200,000 luxury vehicles in U.S.

By doris | Published: October 3, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com BERLIN — BMW’s recall of nearly 200,000 luxury vehicles in the U.S. to fix leaks that could develop in the power braking system may extend to another 150,000 cars of the same series around the globe, a spokesman said Friday. Globally, some 345,000 BMWs of the 5 Series, 6 Series and [...]

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Former egg farm workers say complaints ignored

By doris | Published: September 3, 2010

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com DES MOINES, Iowa – U.S. Agriculture Department employees worked full-time at two Iowa egg farms at the center of a salmonella outbreak and massive recall, but two former workers said they ignored complaints about conditions at one site. The USDA employees worked next to areas where roughly 7.7 million caged hens [...]

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Workers on doomed rig voiced safety concerns

By doris | Published: July 22, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — A confidential survey of workers on the Deepwater Horizon in the weeks before the oil rig exploded showed that many of them were concerned about safety practices and feared reprisals if they reported mistakes or other problems. In the survey, commissioned by the rig’s owner, Transocean, workers said that [...]

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Another Johnson & Johnson drug plant gets flagged

By doris | Published: July 17, 2010

Full Story at money.cnn.com Can you trust J&J for drugs anymore.  Why do the companies not keep up with the cleaning. Is it money like every thing else, or do the just don’t care anymore. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Johnson & Johnson, already under fire from the government over deplorable conditions at a Pennsylvania plant [...]

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Toyota recalls Lexus hybrid for fuel spills

By doris | Published: June 27, 2010

Full Story at  msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Toyota said Friday it will recall 17,000 Lexus luxury hybrids after testing showed that fuel can spill during a rear end crash. The Japanese automaker said tests conducted for the National Traffic Highway Safety Administration found that fuel leaked during a rear impact crash at 50 miles per hour [...]

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