William Facteau, 47, and Patrick Fabian, 49,The former Chief Executive Officer and Vice President of Sales of Acclarent, Inc., a medical device company, were convicted by a Boston federal jury in connection with distributing adulterated and misbranded medical devices. Ā The jury concluded that Facteau and Fabian caused the unlawful distribution of a medical...
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Category: Consumer Protection
Two companies and exec plead guilty to adding wood pulp to cheese
An executive and two companies pleaded guilty in federal court to marketing packages of cheese containing unacceptable amounts of wood pulp as "100 percent real parmesan and romano cheese."
Castle Cheese Company executive Michelle Myrter, 44, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor of aiding and abetting to introduce misbranded and adulterated products to interstate commerce. Two...
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Recalled beef with mad cow disease how it may have happened
The 4,000 pounds of recalled beef with the potential risk of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSW) otherwise known as mad cow disease may have been caused by the failure of the distributor of the beef in removing the dorsal root ganglia. These are branches of the cow's central nervous system along the spine. If a...
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Are AT&T and T-Mobile prepaid customers being fraudulently overbilled?
In a filing to the Federal Communications Commission, AT&T subscriber William Fogal alleges that he has been overcharged by AT&T for his airtime. He observed a discrepancy between the call records reported by his prepaid phone and his usage history reported by AT&T. For example, he cited one 29-second call he made on March...
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FDA danger-alert of dietary supplement Mass Destruction containing steroid
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now warning consumers against a dietary body building supplement Mass Destruction found to contain a synthetic anabolic Steroid. The alert came just after a death which has been blamed on the product.
According to the FDA liver injury is a side affect of steroid use, others being testicle...
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Whistleblower testimony results in first state to ban arsenic from poultry feed. Other states expected to follow
As of this month, arsenic is officially banned from poultry feed in the state of Maryland. It is still allowed in other states, even thought the dangers to the environment, food safety and the public health in general is growing. The practice of feeding arsenic to chickens has been around since the 1940's to...
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