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Pet Food Salmonella Research: Owners also at Risk As raw pet food has become increasingly popular with pet owners, the number of salmonella outbreaks has also increased. Because of this, researchers have formed a team to research the precise source of the salmonella outbreaks associated with raw pet food. Among the organizations involved in…

NHTSA Drunk Driving Survey:  Data Not Complete Yet The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is conducting another in a series of surveys regarding the prevalence of drug and alcohol use among drivers, and they have been using off-duty Fort Worth police officers to help conduct it. Their efforts have resulted in a large number…

Injured Oil & Gas Workers: Texas Workers at Risk According to a recent report in the Houston Chronicle, an analysis of data and public records regarding oil field accidents since the beginning of the oil and gas boom in 2007 shows a disturbing pattern, in which oil and gas companies employ shoddy practices and…

Recall Tied to Other Beef Recall In a move that is directly related to a massive recall of nearly nine million pounds of beef products announced earlier this month, Nestle has decided to voluntarily recall two of its flavors of its Hot Pockets frozen product. As you’ll recall, the Food Safety and Inspection Service…

Fatal Accident Caused by Ice This winter has been a difficult one for Texas drivers, as we’ve seen more than our share of Icy roads. One of the latest examples is a tragic one, in which a teenager was killed in the Denton area, after a storm that brought freezing rain and snow left…

Huge Carseat Recall: Graco Products Targetted When you buy products designed to keep your baby or young child safe, you don’t really expect those products to put them at greater risk. Yet, in one of the largest recalls of baby products in history, industry giant Graco will recall 3.7 million child car seats it…

Flashlight Recall: Burn Hazard Cited As part of a cooperative safety effort in conjunction with Health Canada, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has announced a recall by Spectrum Brands, Inc. of two models of Rayovac LED flashlights due to a possible burn hazard. According to the recall notice, the batteries in either…

Meat Worker Loses Arm in Accident: Corpus Cristi Worker Injured In an extremely gruesome accident that happened on the next-to-last day of 2013, a worker at the Sam Kane Beef Processors plant in Corpus Christi lost his right arm below the elbow when it was sliced off by a meat saw. According to witnesses,…

Salmonella on Chicken Caused by Roaches As if their problems weren’t bad enough, having seen sales drop 25 percent in recent months because of a salmonella outbreak traced to their plants, a Foster Farms chicken processing plant in California that just reopened on Saturday after being shut down for a major cockroach infestation has…

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently took the relatively rare step of filing a lawsuit to hold the former owner of an Internet sales sensation, Buckyballs, personally responsible for the cost of recalling the product, a prospect that could end up costing as much as $57 million. Buckyballs is a small desk toy…