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Johnson & Johnson announced Wednesday that the company is recalling five of its popular, briskly selling sunscreen products after finding they contain low levels of benzene. Benzene is a dangerous chemical that has been found to cause cancer with repeated exposure. The nature of benzene and the fact that people use sunscreen time and again resulted in red flags and the manufacturer issuing the immediate recall. Five Johnson & Johnson Sunscreen Products Subject to Recall The immediate recall impacts five…

Child Killed on Peloton Tread+ Treadmill Raises Spector of Potentially Defective Product Concerns The news came in a message from Peloton CEO John Foley to some of the company’s customers on Thursday afternoon, March 18, 2021. Foley announced that a child had been killed on the Peloton Tread+ treadmill, one of the company’s premiere exercise products. Very little information has been released from the company beyond the fact that a child died and that the death has something to do…

Toro has issued a defective products recall of approximately 7,500 snowblowers that pose an amputation risk to users. The Toro snowblower recall has come at a time when much of the country is blanketed in snow, including a number of southern states like Texas. In other words, the Toro snowblower recall has happened at precisely a point in time when this evidently defective product has been in wide use across the United States. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Administration issued…

Every year, tens of thousands of people across the United States sustain injuries as the result of product defects. Some of these unfortunate people suffer very serious and even fatal injuries. There is a spike in certain types of product defect injuries during the winter holiday season as a result of an increase in retail sales and because of gift giving. In order to be better abreast of issues surrounding product defects when gift giving (and receiving) during the holiday…

Even though many people altered their Thanksgiving plans as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the November holiday remains something a celebration of food in homes across the country. People from all walks of life spend a considerable amount of time in their kitchens preparing some of their favorite dishes. Historically, holiday chefs use an array of different types of culinary devices, including the Crock-Pot Express Pressure Cooker. Just prior to the 2020 Thanksgiving holiday, Sunbeam Products, the manufacturer of…