December 7, 2009 – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has opened an investigation into the popular Zhu Zhu Pets toy because it may contain a higher than allowed level of antimony, a heavy metal which if ingested can make children sick, NBC News reported. “CPSC is looking into the Zhu Zhu pet toy […]
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December 3, 2009 –All counterfeit products are illegal. But counterfeit electronics are not just illegal, they are dangerous. “These things can kill you,” says Brett Brenner, president of the Electrical Safety Foundation, an industry-funded organization based in Roslyn, Va. “A counterfeit purse or a CD isn’t going to hurt you. But a counterfeit electrical product
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December 3, 2009 – A driver heading west on I-8 was killed this morning when his pickup truck veered off the freeway and overturned several times, narrowly missing an SUV before coming to rest in the driveway of a Mission Valley business. The man was heading west about 7:30 a.m. in a white 1990 Toyota
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December 2, 2009 – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with LaJobi Inc., of Cranbury, NJ, today announced a voluntary recall of their “Molly” and “Betsy” style wooden cribs. The end panels on the “Molly” style cribs are made of solid wood with openings on both sides, with the following model numbers:
December 2, 2009 – More than three years after Congress ordered stepped-up monitoring of sex offenders, only one state has adopted the government’s strict new requirements, and some others are weighing whether to ignore the law and just pay a penalty. So far, Ohio is the lone state to meet the new federal standards. Elsewhere,
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