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Luxury car brand BMW has issued two recalls for more than 1.4 million vehicles in the United States, including cars and SUVs, due to a risk that they may Spontaneously catch fire under the hood. According to the German automaker, the risk is minimal, but they still are asking that owners of the recalled…

Last week, several vehicle safety groups released a study showing something shocking. Apparently, many car dealers are selling recalled vehicles on a pretty regular basis. According to researchers, one out of every four vehicles on eight CarMax Inc. used car lots in three states were subject to safety recalls. Despite this, the defects were…

Undeclared Peanuts Lead to Another Texas Food Recall For the second time in just the last few weeks, Texas Best Proteins, a Santo, Texas-based food manufacturer who produces Farm to Market Foods products, has decided to issue another Texas food recall of some of their products. On Dec. 22, they recalled more than 25,000…

Defective Accessory Leads to Latest Tesla Recall The number of recalls by car companies has reached monstrous proportions in recent years. In fact, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) has calculated that the total number of vehicles that were subject to a recall in the last year has already topped 50 million. And…

Major Producer in 2 Milion Pound Chicken Recall Over the weekend, National Steak and Poultry announced that it had issued a chicken recall for more than 2 million pounds of ready-to-eat products because they may have been undercooked. According to the recall announcement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), though there have been…

The largest manufacturer in the United States, Sabra Dipping Co., has issued a massive hummus recall. The recall affects most of its hummus products that were produced before Nov. 8 because the hummus may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, which cause listeriosis and lead to serious illness or death for some people. The Listeria…

Contaminated Cookie Dough Leads to More Ice Cream Recalls More ice cream recalls have been ordered over Listeria concerns, although this time, the culprit is an ingredient supplier. We told you earlier this week about Nestle’s recall of some of its popular Drumstick brand ice cream cones, but that seems to be just the…

Compounding Pharmacy Issues San Antonio Drug Recall Talon Compounding Pharmacy (TCP), a drug company based in San Antonio, Texas, has issued a voluntary recall of all lots of lyophilized HCG and sermorelin. The recall was issued based on concerns expressed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding sterility assurance of the drugs. If…

Tainted Flour Recall Expands to Include Kellogg Products Last week, Texas-based Frito-Lay issued a recall for Rold Gold pretzel products because the flour they had used may have been contaminated with small amounts of peanut residue, which could be dangerous to those with nut allergies. Well, that recall was expanded yesterday, when the Kellogg…

Texas Pistachios and Salmonella Lead to Nationwide Recall Texas Star Nut and Food Co. Inc., a pistachio producer based in Boerne, Texas issued a voluntary recall on March 10 for pistachio products that had been shipped to retailers throughout Texas and Louisiana because of tests by a third-party lab contracted by the Food and…