Plans to start blasting as part of the mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining operation on West Virginia’s Coal River Mountain could compromise an eight-billion-gallon coal sludge dam that is roughly 10 times bigger than the coal ash dam that was breached in late December 2008, in Kingsport, Tenn. Local citizens gathered today at the Marfork [...]
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KV Pharmaceuticals Expands Recall
ETHEX Corporation, a subsidiary of KV Pharmaceutical Company (NYSE: KVa; KVb), is issuing a voluntary expansion to the retail level of a previously announced recall on certain products. The recall on the products listed below had previously been issued to the wholesale level, but is now being expanded to the retail level. The Company is [...]
Contaminated Peanut Butter linked to Serious Injury
VISIT OUR FOOD POISONING SECTION FOR MORE INFORMATION A combination of epidemiological analysis and laboratory testing by state officials in Minnesota and Connecticut, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have enabled FDA to confirm that the sources of the outbreak of illnesses caused by Salmonella Typhimurium [...]
Weight loss guru forced to pay $37 million for misrepresentation
A federal judge has ordered infomercial marketer Kevin Trudeau to pay more than $37 million for violating a 2004 stipulated order by misrepresenting the content of his book, “The Weight Loss Cure ‘They’ Don’t Want You to Know About.” In August 2008, Judge Robert W. Gettleman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District [...]
FDA Warns about Dangers of Dietary Supplement HYPERDRIVE 3.0
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to take Venom HYPERDRIVE 3.0, a product sold as a dietary supplement and containing sibutramine. Sibutramine, a controlled substance with risks for abuse or addiction, is a potent drug that poses potential safety risks. “Sibutramine is the active ingredient in an FDA-approved prescription drug used [...]
KV Pharmaceutical Suspends Product Manufacturing, Shipping
KV Pharmaceutical (NYSE: KVa/KVb) has voluntarily suspended the manufacturing and shipping of all of its products, other than certain products that it distributes but does not manufacture. The suspension began on January 22, 2009. Additionally, the company will conduct a voluntary recall of most of its products. The scope and depth of the recall are [...]
Johnson & Johnson Completes Initial Tender Offer for Mentor Corporation with 92.9% of Shares Tendered
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Jan. 17 — Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) today announced that the initial tender offer, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Maple Merger Sub, Inc., for all outstanding shares of common stock of Mentor Corporation (NYSE: MNT) expired at 5:00 PM (Eastern time) on Jan. 16, 2009, and was not extended. The depositary [...]
KIK (Virginia) LLC Pleads Guilty and Agrees to Pay Fine for Negligent Discharges to Sewer System
The Clean Water Act prohibits discharges into a sewer system of any pollutants that the discharger knows could cause property damage. Bleach is a corrosive chemical that, in sufficient concentration, may damage metal and other materials used in the sewer system and is considered a pollutant under the Clean Water Act. “Keeping our sewer systems [...]
FDA Expands Warning to Consumers About Tainted Weight Loss Pills
List increases from 28 to 69 products; Agency seeking recalls The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expanding its nationwide alert to consumers about tainted weight loss pills that contain undeclared, active pharmaceutical ingredients. On December 22, 2008, FDA warned consumers not to purchase or consume 28 different products marketed for weight loss. Since that [...]
