<![CDATA[It's Easy To Miss News Of Product Recalls - Consumerist Comments]]> <![CDATA[It's Easy To Miss News Of Product Recalls - Consumerist Comments]]> <![CDATA[It's Easy To Miss News Of Product Recalls]]> @asherchang:

Yeah, Consumerist has trouble with misspellings, typos, etc. But FYI, professionalism only has one "f."

People who live in glass houses...

acambras

]]> <![CDATA[It's Easy To Miss News Of Product Recalls]]> i you wash your hands with tap water then the same bacteria will end up on the lenses when you handle them.

bbbici

]]> <![CDATA[It's Easy To Miss News Of Product Recalls]]> I read the feeds of the FDA and CPSC recalls, and if I know someone who uses a product, I always let them know. With the toy recalls, I've printed the lists out for my neighbor, who has a 3-year-old.

Kat

]]> <![CDATA[It's Easy To Miss News Of Product Recalls]]> And then making fun of Wal-Mart's misspellings!

formergr

]]> <![CDATA[It's Easy To Miss News Of Product Recalls]]> "but people often important news when it comes to product recalls"


you're missing a verb there... is it "miss", by any chance?

I almost feel like you guys did that on purpose just to have a little fun with the fact that consumerist is renowned for its greeeaat job and proffesionalism in copyediting its posts.

asherchang

]]> <![CDATA[It's Easy To Miss News Of Product Recalls]]> @formergr: Using computers as a matter of necessity and using them during leisure are entirely separate matters. The majority of young adults do not actively pay any attention to the news. They may spend 5 straight hours at the computer or in front of the television, but chances are they are there for entertainment and not information (think World of Warcraft).

[www.nytimes.com]

Woofer00

]]> <![CDATA[It's Easy To Miss News Of Product Recalls]]> I'm impressed that this guy is an art student somewhere yet doesn't use the Internet. Nothing wrong with not using the 'nets, but I thought just about all schools now made heavy use of it for registration, notifying students of things, classwork, etc.

Sucks about his eyes, though. I wonder if he reads newspapers? Was the recall even covered in papers?

formergr

]]> <![CDATA[It's Easy To Miss News Of Product Recalls]]> @ScramDiggyBooBoo: C'mon, Mal-Wart still couldn't remove tainted pet food & nazi T-shirts from their stores & systems. You expect them to get this right? It SHOULD be easy... but we're dealing with huge corporations with byzantine policies and offshore droids.

FLConsumer

]]> <![CDATA[It's Easy To Miss News Of Product Recalls]]> I found the contact lens solution recall info on the web to be missing one major thing -- there's NO picture of the actual product on any of the press releases. The CDC's website only shows a diseased eye, the manufacturer's website only shows a text-only press release and the rest of their navigation menus don't work in Firefox. Considering all of the contact lens solutions out there have very similar sounding names, a picture would "say 1,000 words" and also would catch people's attention.

Fortunately, I'm not a contact lens user, but I'm sure others who are might have encountered similar problems or didn't notice at all.

FLConsumer

]]> <![CDATA[It's Easy To Miss News Of Product Recalls]]> @ScramDiggyBooBoo: Oh, it can be done. The problem is that the cashiers either override the no-sell order or find a way to sell the item anyway.

Just ask all the whiners about harmless T-shirts.

Buran

]]> <![CDATA[It's Easy To Miss News Of Product Recalls]]> who rinses their contacts in tap water? that makes them so horribly uncomfortable to wear.

apparently we half-blind types can't even wash our faces in tap water. yikes. [www.newscientist.com]

mermaidshoes

]]> <![CDATA[It's Easy To Miss News Of Product Recalls]]> One thing i dont understand. Every one of those 28 million bottles has a UPC on it. Why not create some database that contains all the info on what was recalled and its a companies duty to make sure they check this??? Then put a ban on the UPC code so that when it is scanned, it will not let the cashier sell it and comes up with some "product recalled" message? I dont know why it couldn't be this easy? Please correct me if i'm wrong.

ScramDiggyBooBoo

]]> <![CDATA[It's Easy To Miss News Of Product Recalls]]> I have little sympathy for people who choose to be disconnected and then suffer for it. Sure, the media is evil kill your television blah blah blah. But when that attitude ends up biting someone in the ass the first thing they do is blame the media for not hunting them down in person and telling them.

revmatty

]]> <![CDATA[It's Easy To Miss News Of Product Recalls]]> So what do I do now that it's been recalled? Can I take it back to the store and get a refund or exchange, or do I just dump it in the garbage now?

sk1d

]]> <![CDATA[It's Easy To Miss News Of Product Recalls]]> wonder how well recalls.gov works?

Crazytree

]]> <![CDATA[It's Easy To Miss News Of Product Recalls]]> My eye doctor said that although complete moisture plus was pulled from the shelves it's perfectly safe to continue use. The reason, he explained, was that it was pulled because it's not able to adequately kill certain types of bacteria that should only get on your lens if you're rinsing your lenses w/ tap water. He noted that so long as I'm not using tap water I can continue my use w/ this product. He did note that they are creating a new version to better combat the bacteria.

tange2

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