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It seems like every other week is focused on a category of safety, and this week is no different.  Up until this Saturday, safety officials across the country are hosting events and providing tips in honor of Poison Prevention Week.  A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report from last year found that more people… read more

In South Dakota, a ban on texting while driving failed to garner the votes necessary to receive passage and become the law of the land.  Although the measure received the go-ahead from the state’s Senate, passage in the House was another matter.  In fact, the bill never even made it out of the House Judiciary… read more

Yesterday, we spoke briefly about a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study posted in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report that showed Americans texted and used their cellphones behind the wheel at greater rates than citizens in much of Europe.  When it came to talking on the phone in the past 30 days, a… read more

Compounding pharmacies are in the news once again.  Months ago, the presence of mold in products from a Massachusetts-based facility led to fatalities across the country, and the incident prompted lawmakers to take another look at how the operations of compounders are overseen by local and federal officials.  The Food and Drug Administration vowed to… read more

Consumer Reports continues in its self-appointed quest to get the public to take more seriously the purported threat posed by laundry detergent pods.  The organization has become concerned about a surge in the number of incidents in which a young child has ingested one of these items.  This tends to happen because the child confuses… read more

The Food and Drug Administration is warning doctors and patients of the recently discovered increased risk of irregular heart rhythm that could confront users of azithromycin.  Known more commonly as Zmax or Zithromax, two studies recently turned up an issue wherein the heart’s electrical activity could experience abnormality leading to the aforementioned rhythm issue, which… read more

Yesterday, we brought you word of a distracted driving crackdown taking place all across California during the month of April.  Now, we’re getting some clue as to how local police plan to approach the endeavor.  The California Highway Patrol is one of the many entities taking part in the operation, and the Redwood City branch… read more

Latex allergies are far more prevalent than many people might realize.  In fact, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration figures that as much as 6% of the population is allergic to latex.  This number actually increases when looking at the healthcare industry, where up to 12% of people could have a sensitivity to the substance…. read more

Many states have confronted a dilemma after they’ve passed texting and driving bans:  how can you actually tell that a person is texting and not just dialing a phone number or looking down at their laps for some other reason?  In California, we have no such problem, as both texting and talking on a cellphone… read more

The past weeks have seen police officers in the Sacramento area cracking down on those persons who insist on using their cellphones at the wheel.  But distracted drivers mustn’t think that that operation’s close means they can suddenly pick up their phones and start being distracted anew.  The month of April will see not just… read more

Hopefully, most adults would have enough common sense that they wouldn’t purposely attempt to open the door of a moving vehicle.  However, sometimes accidents do happen, and children especially might not understand that the door handle shouldn’t be grabbed while in transit.  That’s why this next recall is so important. C-Max, Escape, and Focus vehicles… read more

The Santa Fe Springs, California-based Nishimoto Trading Company has announced the recall of Kotsubukko Rice Cracker under the Kameda Brand because the products might contain milk without the label stating as much.  The recall affects 4.37 ounce versions of the item that were available in California and a small handful of other states between November… read more