It seems that after an outbreak of meningitis in Nigeria in the year 1996, Pfizer tested a new antibiotic on 200 sick children with somehow falsified consent forms. The drugs name is Trovan and the damage it did was to cause eight of those kids to die, some others to develop brain damage and…
Monthly Archives: January 2009
How the Tainted Nuts Went Out
There are reports that even after 12 internal tests came out positive for salmonella the machines handling these tainted nuts at the Peanut Corp. of Georgia were never cleaned. The company would just keep sending out samples from the same batches until they got clean results from an outside lab, then they would send out…
More Trouble with Nuts?
My husband went to a chain drugstore and brought back the house brand of peanuts. It was already open and he was enjoying them and offered me some. I reminded him about the contamination with the peanuts and how do we know these are safe but he never gives in to that sort of…
Mom of Octuplets
I thought married people were nuts for having multiple births, but this mom is divorced and single. Of couse it’s her body and she can do as she pleases with it, however, she cannot afford the six little ones she already has plus eight more. That gives all of us taxpayers a right to…
Facebook and Breastfeeding
I heard on the news a brief snipit that Facebook is not going to allow people to put up photos of women breastfeeding and of course, breastfeeding moms everywhere are all up in arms about the decision. The last time I got involved in this debate ( on a moms forum no less ),…
Sick Nuts
It seems that the Peanut Corp. of Georgia knew about the contamination of the peanuts, but sent the product out anyway. The FDA knew about it and supposedly there was communication back and forth between them, but the nuts went out anyway. Over 500 people were made ill, and eight died from the greed…
FDA Asleep at the Wheel
It used to be that I respected and listened to the FDA warnings and passing of products. Now I find them pretty much useless. They are supposed to be there to find harmful products and let the public know about them. Lately however they’ve been asleep at the wheel and it’s been contamination one…
Hospitals Lose Lawsuit
A lawsuit that was started six years ago ended with manyAdventist hospitals in the Chicago area on the losing end of a settlement agreement. It seems that the hospitals get a tax exemption for treating the non and under insured and the suit says they have been charging the same top rates to the…
Recall List Growing Fast
This latest recall of products that use peanut butter is growing so fast the FDA can hardly keep up with it and many of these products are still on store shelves. Follow this link the the FDA’s site to get the list as complete as it is for now. The best thing to do…
Product Recall You Should be Aware of.
Kellogg has voluntarily recalled some of it’s products due to a salmonella outbreak in Canada and 43 states. The bacteria was found in peanut butter and five deaths have been linked to it. The five who have died though also had some underlying conditions that made their immune systems weak. The products are, “Cheese…