On Oct. 18, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) recalled 33,000 bottles of its 22-ounce Baby Powder after a U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) test found trace amounts of asbestos in a sample of the powder. The contaminated sample came from lot #22318RB, and the recall…
In recent months, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been conducting an ongoing investigation of the rising number of vaping-related lung disease patients and deaths ravaging the nation. Cases of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury, or EVALI, were…
Just months after the first reports of vaping-related lung illness became known to the public, there have been cases in 49 U.S. states (excluding Alaska), Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The CDC most recently updated its case count for e-cigarette or vaping product…
On Sep. 25, I blogged about the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) investigation of eight vaping-related deaths and 530 illness cases across 38 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Now, just three weeks later, the case count has risen to over 1,300, with 49 states,…
The American Association for Justice released a report entitled Hazardous to Your Health: How the Civil Justice System Holds Corporate Polluters Accountable. The report details how corporations run...
An article in the Washington Post this morning offered some startling revelations about the protections to which chemical companies are entitled to protect their profits: Of the 84,000 chemicals...
