If you bought a Hatch & Grow Easter egg or Dino toy from Target for your child’s basket this weekend, you might want to make alternative plans: Target has recalled 560,000 of the toys as they pose an ingestion hazard that can only be remedied with surgery. [More]
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Target Recalls 560,000 “Hatch & Grow” Easter Toys Over Ingestion Hazard
By 4.13.17 — Updated: 5.10.17
Some Macbook Owners Say Their Computers Are Making “Popping” Sounds
By 4.13.17
Some owners of Apple’s latest MacBook Pro offering say their costly devices came with an unwanted addition: an unusual popping sound. [More]
United Airlines Will Compensate All Passengers Who Were On Controversial Flight
By 4.13.17
United Airlines remains in damage control mode after video of a passenger being forcibly removed from his seat and dragged down the aisle of a plane generated a public backlash. In the next step on its stumbling apology tour, United has announced that every other passenger who was on that flight will be compensated for their fare. [More]
146,000 Garbage Disposals Recalled Over Flying Metal Pieces
By 4.12.17 — Updated: 5.10.17
If you’ve got a garbage disposal in your kitchen, you’ll probably want to check it against this list of disposals — from brands like Kenmore, Moen, and Frigidaire — that have been recalled over concerns that they may send metal pieces flying out of your sink. [More]
Major Mountain Dew Syrup Spill Creates “Huge Foaming Event” At Pepsi Plant
By 4.11.17
Maybe you find it hilarious when your friend’s can of Mountain Dew erupts all over their shirt and face (unless you’re left cleaning up the mess on the floor, negating all the hilarity). But a large-scale spill of Mountain Dew syrup — resulting in a “huge foaming event” — was a genuine cause for concern at one Pepsi bottling facility. [More]
Shoppers Say Their Bagged Spinach Came With A Free Live Scorpion
By 4.11.17
It’s a bad week for bagged salads, unless you are hoping to find animals mixed in with your greens. First, there was the dead bat salad, and now we have a customer claiming they found a live scorpion in their bag o’ spinach. [More]
Police Using GPS ‘Darts’ To Track Suspects, Prevent Dangerous High-Speed Chases
By 4.10.17
It sounds like something straight out of a movie: A suspect’s vehicle blows past a police car, tires screeching as it speeds away. But instead of hitting the gas and starting a high-speed chase that could endanger everyone involved — including innocent bystanders — police in one Colorado city can now fire GPS tracking “darts” at fleeing vehicles. [More]
Fresh Express Recalling Salad Mix Sold At Walmart After 2 People Find Dead Bat In Their Food
By 4.10.17
If you were about to eat something, you may want to put it down for just a second. Now pick it up and take a closer look at it: Any dead animals that shouldn’t be there? No? You’re luckier than two people in Florida who found a dead bat in the packaged salad they were in the process of consuming. [More]
Honda Recalls 37,000 Accords In Hunt To Find 2,500 Defective Airbags
By 4.7.17
To date, Honda has replaced nearly nine million defective, shrapnel-shooting Takata airbags. Now the company is undertaking a “needle-in-a-haystack” search for 2,500 Accord vehicles that weren’t included in any of those recalls. The automaker says these cars have replacement airbags that were installed before anyone knew of the defect. [More]
Hyundai, Kia Recall 1.2M Vehicles Over Engine Failure
By 4.7.17 — Updated: 5.10.17
Realizing that a non-moving car is a useless car, Kia and Hyundai have recalled nearly 1.2 million vehicles in the U.S. over concerns about engine failure. [More]
Popularizer Of ‘Designated Driver’ Concept Can’t Get Drivers To Put Phones Down
By 4.6.17
Jay Winsten is not a household name, but everyone recognizes the term “designated driver,” which the Harvard professor brought to the United States, popularized, and turned into a social norm back in the ’80s. Now Winsten is trying to address the driving danger of our time: Why won’t drivers put their phones down? [More]
EPA Taken To Court For Ignoring Its Own Science In Deciding To Not Ban Pesticide
By 4.6.17 — Updated: 5.9.17
When Scott Pruitt recently took over as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, one of his first decisions was to deny a petition seeking a ban on a controversial pesticide — only months after scientists of the agency said it poses a significant health risk. Now the EPA is being taken to court for its decision to ignore its own recommendation. [More]
Food Industry Lobbyists Ask FDA To Delay Revised Nutrition Labels For Three Years
By 4.6.17 — Updated: 5.10.17
Three years after the federal government said it would overhaul Nutrition Facts labels for the first time in 20 years, a group of food industry executives and trade groups are asking the Food and Drug Administration to delay implementing those changes by three years. [More]
Season’s Choice Frozen Sweet Peas Sold At Aldi Recalled For Possible Listeria Contamination
By 4.6.17 — Updated: 5.9.17
Time to check your freezer, Aldi shoppers: The grocery chain is recalling frozen peas that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, a foodborne bacteria that can survive freezing temperatures. [More]
Recalled Products From IKEA, McDonald’s Made 2016 A Bad Year For Injured Children
By 4.4.17 — Updated: 5.10.17
There was no shortage of massive, wide-reaching recalls that affected children in 2016: the 29 million top-heavy IKEA dressers that could tip over, McDonald’s 29 million Happy Meal fitness trackers that caused rashes and burns, and three million Tommee Tippee’s spill proof cups that grew mold. Each of these campaigns — and many others — contributed to the largest increase in recalls, injuries, and incidents involving children’s products in nearly a decade. [More]
China Using Facial Recognition In Public Restrooms To Prevent Toilet Paper Thefts
By 4.3.17
As part of China’s efforts to spur tourism with a “toilet revolution,” bathrooms at tourist sites will now use facial recognition to keep them from grabbing too much toilet paper. Yes, this means your face could be scanned in the john. [More]
States Sue Trump Administration For Delaying Energy Efficiency Standards On Multiple Products
By 4.3.17 — Updated: 5.9.17
Since January, the Trump administration has twice delayed new energy efficiency standards for ceiling fans, and has not published the finalized efficiency standards for a number of other products like air compressors, backup power supplies, and portable air conditioners. Now, two separate lawsuits are asking a court to intervene and put an end to these delays. [More]
Menu Del Sol Burritos Recalled For Possible Listeria Contamination
By 4.3.17 — Updated: 5.9.17
Frozen burritos are a pretty innocuous food, but danger may lurk inside some bean and cheese burritos currently on the market. Frozen bean and cheese burritos from the brand Menu Del Sol have been recalled because random tests turned up Listeria in a sample. [More]
