Category Archives: Consumer

Fisher-Price recalls millions of toys

By doris | Published: October 1, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com CNN) — Toy manufacturer Fisher-Price announced Thursday that it has recalled about 10 million toys because they were dangerous to children. The toy maker said it has recalled about 2.8 million of several types of baby play areas with inflatable balls because of problems with choking. It also recalled 125,000 of [...]

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Cotton shortage = Pricey T-shirts and jeans

By doris | Published: September 10, 2010

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Attention T-shirt fans: Bag those deep discounts now because come January, stores could have you paying more for your favorite clothing. The reason: Cotton prices have nearly doubled this year, hitting a near 15-year high following a chain of events among major Asian cotton producers that has [...]

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J&J unit recalls 93,000 hip implant systems

By doris | Published: August 27, 2010

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Johnson and Johnson unit DePuy Orthopaedics, already in hot water with government regulators, issued a global recall Thursday of two hip aid systems after finding that more people than expected suffered pain which required additional surgery. DePuy, which has sold about 93,000 units of its ASR XL [...]

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Nationwide meat recall announced

By doris | Published: August 25, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Zemco Industries in Buffalo, New York, has recalled approximately 380,000 pounds of deli meat that may be contaminated with bacteria that can cause a potentially fatal disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday. The products were distributed to Wal-Marts nationwide, according to the USDA’s website. The meats may [...]

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380 million eggs recalled in salmonella outbreak

By doris | Published: August 19, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com Hundreds of people have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak linked to eggs in four states and possibly more, health officials said Wednesday as a company dramatically expanded a recall to 380 million eggs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working with state health departments to investigate the illnesses. [...]

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Wheat prices soar. Are bread prices next?

By doris | Published: August 6, 2010

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — With wheat futures soaring to their highest level in two years, you could soon find yourself paying more for a loaf of bread at your local grocery store. The price of wheat has surged more than 80% from its seven-month low in June. Prices continued to rally [...]

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Campbell Soup recalls 15 million pounds of SpaghettiOs

By doris | Published: June 18, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Campbell Soup Co. is recalling nearly 15 million pounds of canned SpaghettiOs with meatballs because of possible under-processing, the U.S. agriculture department said. The recall includes 14.75-ounce cans with a use-by date between June 2010 and December 2011 of three varieties of the product: “SpaghettiOs with Meatballs,” “SpaghettiOs A [...]

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Step2 recalls 2.5 million ride-on toys

By doris | Published: May 13, 2010

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Step2 Co. is recalling 2.5 million Push Around and Whisper Ride model ride-on toys because they pose a serious injury risk to young children, a government agency said Wednesday. Step2 disclosed 28 reports of the buggy’s handle detaching, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said in [...]

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The impact of more offshore drilling

By doris | Published: April 1, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com By opening parts of the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico to oil drilling, the Obama administration wants to tap a huge energy resource that could keep fuel costs in check. But don’t expect gasoline pump prices to fall anytime soon because of the new drilling. The offshore areas are located [...]

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Egg donors offered up to $50,000

By doris | Published: March 27, 2010

Are they trying to get perfect people for the world to be perfect? That is a possible, and they are making a lot of money and getting rich off of people who just want a baby of there own.Full Story at msnbc.com Fertility companies are paying egg donors high fees that often exceed guidelines, especially [...]

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Social Security payout to exceed pay-in this year

By doris | Published: March 25, 2010

The Goverment kept borrowing from SS because there was a surplus of money. They did not put it back.Now there is not enough money to pay the people that depend on it to live. They better find the money to help these older people out. Or do the not just care about the older people [...]

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Greenpeace, Nestlé in battle over Kit Kat viral

By doris | Published: March 20, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A video clip which shows an office worker opening a Kit Kat chocolate bar and finding an orangutan’s finger has been re-posted on video-sharing Web site YouTube, a day after it was removed at the request of food giant Nestlé. The viral campaign, which parodies a Kit Kat television [...]

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Driver: My Prius took me for a ride

By doris | Published: March 13, 2010

Technology or just money that the cars are not safe. You judge for your self.Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The driver of a Toyota Prius says he was taken on a wild ride Monday after the car’s accelerator became stuck, reaching speeds in excess of 90 mph on a winding, hilly portion of a [...]

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IRS: $1.3 billion still unclaimed for ’06, and deadline looms

By doris | Published: March 11, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com CNN) — Some people who didn’t file a federal tax return for 2006 have more than 1 billion reasons to reconsider, but they need to do it fast, according to the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS says it has more than $1.3 billion in refunds for 1.4 million people who didn’t [...]

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Toyota adds 1 million vehicles to recall

By doris | Published: January 28, 2010

Full Story at money.cnn.com New York (CNNMoney.com) — Toyota announced Wednesday night that it is adding another 1.1 million vehicles to an an earlier 4.2 million vehicle recall originally announced in November. The vehicles are being recalled to fix a problem in which the gas pedal can become caught on the edge of the removable [...]

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Tylenol recall: FDA slams company

By doris | Published: January 16, 2010

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The maker of several over-the-counter drugs, including Tylenol, Motrin and Benadryl, announced a broad-based recall of these and other drugs Friday after receiving complaints of an “unusual moldy, musty or mildew-like” odor. The recall drew the FDA’s wrath on Johnson and Johnson (JNJ, Fortune 500) for not [...]

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Indian tribe hopes to profit from solar energy

By doris | Published: January 13, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com JEMEZ PUEBLO, N.M. – A poverty-stricken Indian tribe that holds the sun and nature’s other gifts sacred sees a brighter future for itself in solar power. The 3,000 members of the Jemez Pueblo are on the verge of building the nation’s first utility-scale solar plant on tribal land, a project that [...]

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Oklahoma firm recalls beef in 6 states

By doris | Published: December 28, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — A beef recall is under way in a half-dozen states involving possibly contaminated products from the Oklahoma company National Steak and Poultry, according to the firm and federal inspectors. U.S. Agriculture Department officials said a cluster of illnesses involving the E. coli bacteria was reported in Colorado, Iowa, [...]

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Vicks Dayquil recalled because packaging isn’t child-proof

By doris | Published: December 21, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — About 700,000 units of Vicks Dayquil cold medicine were recalled Friday after a finding that the packaging was not child-proof, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The recall affects Vicks Dayquil Cold & Flu 24-Count Bonus Pack Liquicaps with the UPC no. 3 23900 01087 1, according [...]

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Cyber crime poses threat to e-commerce

By doris | Published: December 14, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The past 12 months have been a banner year for cyber crime. And that could be bad news for the future of e-commerce. “At current trends, in three or four years people will start to think twice about transacting on the Web, individuals and businesses,” said Michael Fraser, director [...]

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