How to Get the Information you need to protect your children from product recalls?
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Answer by lafillequibouge
You should try Recalls Plus, a free iPhone app that enables busy parents to proactively monitor recalls of their children’s products like strollers, cribs, baby formula, and car seats for greater safety and peace of mind, check it out: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/recalls-plus/id499200328
If you don’t have an iphone, there is also a Facebook app:
http://apps.facebook.com/recallsplus/
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Q&A: How to Get the Information you need to protect your children from product recalls?
Question by : How to Get the Information you need to protect your children from product recalls?
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Answer by Christian in Jesus
The store that you purchase your products will refuse to sell any recalled items. And you can contact consumer affairs.
http://www.consumeraffairs.govt.nz/for-consumers/goods/product-safety/product-recall-notices
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Economics Homework Help PLEASE! only 25 minutes left to turn in!?
Question by Zebraa: Economics Homework Help PLEASE! only 25 minutes left to turn in!?
So I’m a senior and my graduation pretty much depends on this assignment I have a 59% in the class and my teacher hates me and wont except anything else other then the last two assignments so unless I get and A on this I will be failing economics please help! I really just need help checking the answers i have most of them done. Thanks!
1. Which of these is a procedure that quantifies the personal value of a purchase?
(Points: 2)
The usefulness of the item is turned into utility.
The purchase price is calculated as a certain number of working hours.
The production costs of the item are calculated.
The costs and benefits of the item are determined.
2. Why should consumers look for products that have a warranty?
(Points: 2)
It keeps the store from charging a restocking fee.
It guarantees that they can return the product for any reason.
It provides them with an incentive to choose the best product.
It protects them in case the product is defective.
4. Which of these is not a primary concern of socially responsible consumers?
(Points: 2)
Price
Sustainability
Labor practices
Environmental damage
5. Which of these production practices promotes sustainable development?
(Points: 2)
An assembly line
Offshoring production
The use of renewable resources
Bidding for government contracts
6. Which of these is a way that businesses can be socially responsible?
(Points: 2)
By boycotting protective tariffs
By minimizing pollution from production
By charging the lowest prices possible
By preventing immigrants from getting jobs
7. How can the news media help protect consumers?
(Points: 2)
By issuing a recall on an unsafe product
By helping consumers organize boycotts
By giving consumers advice on how to make a personal budget
By investigating and exposing bad products and business practices
8. Small-claims court is a place for which of the following?
(Points: 2)
People to resolve financial differences
Warrantees to be redeemed
The government to punish cartels
Customers to return damaged goods
9. What is one sacrifice that boycotters often have to make?
(Points: 2)
They pay higher prices.
They lose their jobs.
They suffer from brain drain.
They have reduced Internet access.
10. Why can consumers have influence over politicians?
(Points: 2)
Consumers are able to boycott politicians’ re-election campaigns.
Corporations use profits from consumers to lobby the government.
Politicians rely on the votes of consumers to keep them in office.
Government agencies are required to address consumer complaints.
Okay I take an online class, and yeah my teacher hates me he is also my government teacher and he already failed me and that class and didn’t give me a chance. Yes I took notes but my school system sucks and doesnt even go by what we read and I’m not the preppy girl in class and I never have been, I already answered all these I was just hoping someone would be kind enought to answer them again so I could check my answers before I turn it it.
Thanks to the person who answered 🙂
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Answer by Pooks
did you even attend class, take notes ?that sort of thing?some of these questions just take a little “student sense”.
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cat lovers..another recall, have you seen it yet?
Question by Tammy M: cat lovers..another recall, have you seen it yet?
this time for purina;
The company issued the following notice:
Nestlé Purina PetCare Company (NPPC) is voluntarily recalling approximately 870 bags of dry cat food shipped to Colorado, Idaho and Oregon. This is being done as a precautionary measure, as the product has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. Only the following products with both the “Best By” date and production codes shown are included in this voluntary recall:
Product NameBag Size“Best By” Date & Production Code*Bag UPC Code
Cat Chow Naturals Dry Cat Food6.3 lb.AUG 2012 10331083 1317800 11320
Friskies Grillers Blend Dry Cat Food3.15 lb.AUG 2012 10381083 0650000 08450
Friskies Grillers Blend Dry Cat Food16 lb.AUG 2012 10381083 0650000 57578
* “Best By” Date and Production Code is found on the back or bottom of the bag.
The bags of dry cat food in this recall were distributed in error in February, 2011 to a small number of customers in Colorado, Idaho and Oregon, which may have further distributed the product to other Western states. There have been no consumer complaints and no reports of illness. No additional Purina cat or dog products are involved. Only products which match the “Best By” date and production codes above are involved.
Consumers who have purchased any of these dry cat food products with these “Best By” Dates and Production Codes should discard it.
Salmonella can affect animals eating the product and there is a risk to humans from handling contaminated products. People handling contaminated dry pet food can become infected with Salmonella, especially if they have not thoroughly washed their hands after having contact with surfaces exposed to this product. Healthy people infected with Salmonella should monitor themselves for the following symptoms: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramping and fever. Rarely, Salmonella can result in more serious ailments including arterial infections, endocarditis, arthritis, muscle pain, eye irritation and urinary tract symptoms. Consumers exhibiting these signs after having contact with this product should contact their healthcare providers.
Pets with Salmonella infections may exhibit decreased appetite, fever and abdominal pain. If left untreated, pets may be lethargic and have diarrhea or bloody diarrhea, fever and vomiting. Infected but otherwise healthy pets can be carriers and infect other animals or humans. If your pet has consumed the recalled product and has these symptoms, please contact your veterinarian.
For further information or to obtain a product refund, please call NPPC toll-free at 1-800-982-6559 weekdays 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Central Time, or visit www.purina.com.
thankfully not the purina brands i feed…but wanted to warn those who might use it…
hovis sadie and polly…i see those types of links and answers all the time and i am wary about clicking on the m. if you are spammers i sure dont appreciate you spamming my question. i am tempted to report you on the off chance you are…so if you arent tell me what is in those links before i do. please.
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Answer by mary
This is another reason why we’re switching to a raw meat diet. You just can’t trust cat food manufacturers. They use all the animal parts that are disease-ridden and otherwise unfit for human consumption, boil it til there’s no nutritional value whatsoever, add a funky smell and filler products which cats would never eat in the wild, and call it “healthy” and “natural”. smh.
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can someone helps me summarize this?, please i really need it, thank you?
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when it comes to the safety of young chidren, fire is a parent’s nightmare. just the thought of their young ones trapped in their cribs and beds by a raging nocturnal blaze is enough to make most mothers and fathers take every precaution to ensure their children’s safety. little wonder that when fire-retardant children’s pajamas first hit the market, they proved an overnight success. within a few short years more than 200 millĂon pairs were spld, and the sále of millĂon more were all but guaranteed. for their manufacturers, the future could not have been brighter. then, like a bolt from the blue, came word that the pajamas were killĂ©r. the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) moved quickly to ban their sale and recall millions of pairs. Reason: the pajamas contained the flame-retardant chemĂcal Tris (2,3-dibromoprophyl), which had been found to cause kidney cancer in children. because of its toxicity, the sleepwear couldnt even thrown away, let alone sold. indeed, the CPSC left no doubt about how the pajamas were to be disposed of buried or burned or used as industrial wiping cloths. whereas just months earlier the manufacturers of the Tris-impregnated pajamas couldnt fill orders fast enough, suddenly they were worrying about how to get rid of the millions of pairs now sitting in warehouses. soon, however, ads began appearing in the classified pages of WOMEN’S WEAR DAILY. “Tris,tris… we will buy any fabric containing Tris,” read on. another said, “Tris- we will purchase any large quantities of garments containing Tris.” the ads had been placed by exporters, who began buying up the pajamas, usually at 10 to 30 percent of the normal wholesale price. their intent was clear: to dump the carcinogenic pajamas on overseas markets. Tris is not the only ĂŞxampl of dumping. there were the 450,000 baby pacifiers, of the type known to have caused choking deaths, that were exported for sale overseas, and the 400 Iraqis who died and 5000 who were hospitalized after eating wheat and barley treated with a U.S.-banned organic mercury fungicide. Winstrol, a synthetic male hormone that had been found to stunt the growth of American children, was made available in Brazil as an appetite stimulant for children. DowElanco, although the Environment Protection Agency forbade its sale to U.S. farmers because Galant may cause cancer. after the U.S Food and Drug Administration banned the painkiller dipyrone because it can cause a fatal blood disorder, Winthrop Product continued to sell dipyrone in Mexico City. Manufacturers that dump products abroad clearly are motivated by profit, or at least by the hope of avoiding financial losses resulting from having to withdraw a product from the U.S market. for government and health agencies that cooperate in the exporting of dangerous products, sometimes the motives are more complex. for example, when researchers dĂ´cumented the dangers of the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device-among the adverse reactions were pelvic inflammation, blood poisoning. tubal pregnancies, and uterine perforations-its manufacturer, A.H.Robins Co., began losing its domestic market. as a result, the company worked out a deal with the office of population within the U.S Agency for International Development, whereby AID bought thoĂşsand of the devices at a reduced price for use in population-control programs in forty-two countries. why do government and population control agencies approve for sale and use overseas a birth control device proved dangerous in the U.S? They say their motives are humanitarian. because the rate of dying in childbirth is high in third world countries, almost any birth control device is preferable to none. analogous arguments are used to defend to export of pesticides and other products judged too dangerous for use in the U.S: foreign countries should vague or ambiguous or too technical to understand.but even if communication procedures were improved or the export of dangerous products forbidden, there are ways that companies can circumvent these threats to their profit- for example, by simply changing the name of the product or by exporting the individual ingredients of a product dumped. the U.S does prohibit drugs banned in this country, but sidestepping the law is not difficult. ” unless the package bursts open on the clock,” one drug company executive observes, “you have no chance of being caught”. unfortunately for us, in the case of pesticides, the effects of overseas dumping are now coming home. in U.S the EPA bans all crop uses of ?DT and dieldrin, which kill fish, cause tumĂłr in animals, and build up in the patty tissue of human. it also bán heptachlor, chlordane, leptophos, endrin, and many other pesticides, including 2,4,5-T (which contains the deadly poĂson dioxin, the active ingredient in Agent Orange, the notorious defoliant used in Vietnam) because they are danger to human being. no law, however, prohibits the sale of ?DT and these other U.S-banned pesticides overseas,
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Answer by KenK
Summarizing it might involve replacing the specific examples with a general statement, such as “Numerous products have been…”. There is a sentence in the middle of this document that also gets a bit close to a summary.
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can someone help me summarize this, i am so stress, can’t write anything, i need help please?
Question by : can someone help me summarize this, i am so stress, can’t write anything, i need help please?
when it comes to the safety of young chidren, fire is a parent’s nightmare. just the thought of their young ones trapped in their cribs and beds by a raging nocturnal blaze is enough to make most mothers and fathers take every precaution to ensure their children’s safety. little wonder that when fire-retardant children’s pajamas first hit the market, they proved an overnight success. within a few short years more than 200 millĂon pairs were spld, and the sále of millĂon more were all but guaranteed. for their manufacturers, the future could not have been brighter. then, like a bolt from the blue, came word that the pajamas were killĂ©r. the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) moved quickly to ban their sale and recall millions of pairs. Reason: the pajamas contained the flame-retardant chemĂcal Tris (2,3-dibromoprophyl), which had been found to cause kidney cancer in children. because of its toxicity, the sleepwear couldnt even thrown away, let alone sold. indeed, the CPSC left no doubt about how the pajamas were to be disposed of buried or burned or used as industrial wiping cloths. whereas just months earlier the manufacturers of the Tris-impregnated pajamas couldnt fill orders fast enough, suddenly they were worrying about how to get rid of the millions of pairs now sitting in warehouses. soon, however, ads began appearing in the classified pages of WOMEN’S WEAR DAILY. “Tris,tris… we will buy any fabric containing Tris,” read on. another said, “Tris- we will purchase any large quantities of garments containing Tris.” the ads had been placed by exporters, who began buying up the pajamas, usually at 10 to 30 percent of the normal wholesale price. their intent was clear: to dump the carcinogenic pajamas on overseas markets. Tris is not the only ĂŞxampl of dumping. there were the 450,000 baby pacifiers, of the type known to have caused choking deaths, that were exported for sale overseas, and the 400 Iraqis who died and 5000 who were hospitalized after eating wheat and barley treated with a U.S.-banned organic mercury fungicide. Winstrol, a synthetic male hormone that had been found to stunt the growth of American children, was made available in Brazil as an appetite stimulant for children. DowElanco, although the Environment Protection Agency forbade its sale to U.S. farmers because Galant may cause cancer. after the U.S Food and Drug Administration banned the painkiller dipyrone because it can cause a fatal blood disorder, Winthrop Product continued to sell dipyrone in Mexico City. Manufacturers that dump products abroad clearly are motivated by profit, or at least by the hope of avoiding financial losses resulting from having to withdraw a product from the U.S market. for government and health agencies that cooperate in the exporting of dangerous products, sometimes the motives are more complex. for example, when researchers dĂ´cumented the dangers of the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device-among the adverse reactions were pelvic inflammation, blood poisoning. tubal pregnancies, and uterine perforations-its manufacturer, A.H.Robins Co., began losing its domestic market. as a result, the company worked out a deal with the office of population within the U.S Agency for International Development, whereby AID bought thoĂşsand of the devices at a reduced price for use in population-control programs in forty-two countries. why do government and population control agencies approve for sale and use overseas a birth control device proved dangerous in the U.S? They say their motives are humanitarian. because the rate of dying in childbirth is high in third world countries, almost any birth control device is preferable to none. analogous arguments are used to defend to export of pesticides and other products judged too dangerous for use in the U.S: foreign countries should vague or ambiguous or too technical to understand.but even if communication procedures were improved or the export of dangerous products forbidden, there are ways that companies can circumvent these threats to their profit- for example, by simply changing the name of the product or by exporting the individual ingredients of a product dumped. the U.S does prohibit drugs banned in this country, but sidestepping the law is not difficult. ” unless the package bursts open on the clock,” one drug company executive observes, “you have no chance of being caught”. unfortunately for us, in the case of pesticides, the effects of overseas dumping are now coming home. in U.S the EPA bans all crop uses of ?DT and dieldrin, which kill fish, cause tumĂłr in animals, and build up in the patty tissue of human. it also bán heptachlor, chlordane, leptophos, endrin, and many other pesticides, including 2,4,5-T (which contains the deadly poĂson dioxin, the active ingredient in Agent Orange, the notorious defoliant used in Vietnam) because they are dangerous to human being. no law, however, prohibits the sale of ?DT and these other U.S-banned pesticides overse
continue “no law..overseas, where thanks to corporate dumping they are routinely used in agriculture. in one three-months period, for example, U.S chemical companies exported 3.9 million pounds of banned and withdrawn pesticides. the FDA now estimates, through spot checks, that 10% of our imported food is contaminated with residues of banned pesticides. and the FDA’s most commonly used testing procedure does not even check for 70% of the pesticides known to cause cancer. with the doubling of exports of Mexican produce to the U.S since the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the problem of pĂŞsticid-laced food has only grown worse.
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Answer by harvinab
Exactly what do you mean by summarize, it would be helpful if you could say what your word count is for the summary and the style your summary is required to be written in such as APA format. If you can answer that I might be able to help you out.
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Chinese product recall……what products exactly are affected?
Question by Riley: Chinese product recall……what products exactly are affected?
Is it just fisher price affected by this chinese product recall or is it a whole range of baby items?
decided to see what stuff I have for my new baby that is made in China.
One item was a painted plastic dinnerware set. The company it is made by is babycie.com, a company based in California.
So I sent them a very polite email asking if they knew for sure that this product was safe and he sent me back an email saying ‘of course it is safe!’
So am I supposed to just take his word for it?
The silly man obviously got very offended that I was asking but honestly does he think I am going to let my child eat off a plate that has paint with lead in it.
So I just emailed him back and asked how he could be so sure and who was his chinese vendor. I suggested that if he was unable to confirm for sure that his products were safe then I would enlist the help of channel 7 news to investigate instead!
does anyone know if its just fisher price affected or where I could get that info. thanx
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Answer by metimoteo
I think you’re wise to be concerned. I certainly wouldn’t trust him. I advise you to consider removing all Chinese made toys and other products from your home, especially any item that your child uses regularly. I hate to sound jingoistic, but these people clearly do not have the same standards for quality control that we expect in America. I am appalled a the rash of recalls we’ve seen recently involving products made in China.
Here is a photo list of the Fisher-Price toys the company has recalled in cooperation with the United States Consumer Products Safety Commission:
http://service.mattel.com/us/recall/39054_IVR.asp?prod=
Here is the official notice from the CPSC:
http://service.mattel.com/us/recall/39054_IVR.asp?prod=
The CPSC is also the best place to go for information about other recalls, including toys, household products and electronics.
http://www.cpsc.gov/
Here is another toy that has been recalled recently. Can you guess where it was manufactured? Right, China! Jeepers!
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml07/07261.html
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Are you good with probability Questions?10 points and more?
Question by Emperor: Are you good with probability Questions?10 points and more?
This is my last problem and I’m not sure how to solve this:
A large consumer company ran a television advertisement for one of its soap products.On the basis of a survey that was conducted, probabilities were assigned to the following events.
B=individual purchased the product
S=individual recalls seeing the advertisement
B?S=individual purchased the product and recalls seeing the advertisement
The probabilities assigned were
P(B)=.20
P(S)=.40
P(B?S)=.12
a.)What is the probability of an individual’s purchasing the product given that the individual recalls seeing the advertisement?Does seeing the advertisement increase the probability that the individual will purchase the product? As a decision maker, would you recommend continuing the advertisement(assuming that the cost is reasonable)?
b.)Assume the individuals who do not purchase the company’s soap product buy from its competitors.What would be your estimate of the company’s market share?Would you expect that continuing the advertisement will increase the company’s market share?Why or why not?
c.)The company also tested another advertisement and assigned it values of P(S)=.30 and P(B?S)=.10. What is P(B/S) for this other advertisement?Which advertisement seems to have had the bigger effect on customer purchases?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks. Free computer help and Spanish help if you help me out with this.That is if you ever need it.And your ten points of course.:)
Thank you Isaac. I appreciate it.
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Answer by Isaac N
P[B/S] = P[B and S] / P[S]
This is about all you need to do the problem. For the first question, I got that the probability of an individual purchasing the product given that the individual recalls seeing the advertisement is 0.3.
It’s interesting how you might interpret this result. We know that if a person “recalls” seeing the advertisement, that this increases the probability of the person purchasing the soap from 0.2 to 0.3. However, that does not mean that if a person saw the advertisement that it increases the probability of them purchasing the soap.
There may be people that saw the advertisement and forgot about it. Chances are, this demographic is less likely to purchase the soap because they found its advertisement forgettable. Therefore, it may even out, and the probability of a person purchasing the soap, given that the person has seen the advertisement (regardless of whether they remember it), might not increase.
So the calculations are easy, but interpretation of the results might be complicated.
Personally, I would give the following answers:
Seeing the advertisement does not necessarily increase the probability of the person purchasing the soap. I therefore cannot reccomend whether or not to continue the advertisement.
In the second question, I would estimate the market share to be 20%, assuming that everyone buys soap. If competitors also run advertisements, then it is not clear whether continuing advertisements will increase market share, though it may keep it from decreasing.
In the third question, P[B/S] = 0.33, so it seems that the second advertisement had a bigger effect. However, this is not necessarily the case because we again do not know the behavior of the people who saw the advertisement and forgot about it.
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Can you help me with my last Probability question?
Question by Emperor: Can you help me with my last Probability question?
A large consumer company ran a television advertisement for one of its soap products.On the basis of a survey that was conducted, probabilities were assigned to the following events.
B=individual purchased the product
S=individual recalls seeing the advertisement
B?S=individual purchased the product and recalls seeing the advertisement
The probabilities assigned were
P(B)=.20
P(S)=.40
P(B?S)=.12
a.)What is the probability of an individual’s purchasing the product given that the individual recalls seeing the advertisement?Does seeing the advertisement increase the probability that the individual will purchase the product? As a decision maker, would you recommend continuing the advertisement(assuming that the cost is reasonable)?
b.)Assume the individuals who do not purchase the company’s soap product buy from its competitors.What would be your estimate of the company’s market share?Would you expect that continuing the advertisement will increase the company’s market share?Why or why not?
c.)The company also tested another advertisement and assigned it values of P(S)=.30 and P(B?S)=.10. What is P(B/S) for this other advertisement?Which advertisement seems to have had the bigger effect on customer purchases?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks. Free computer help and spanish help if you help me out with this.And your ten points of course.:)
PR squared thank you very much!
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Answer by Pi R Squared
Hi,
The probabilities assigned were
P(B)=.20
P(S)=.40
P(B?S)=.12
a.)What is the probability of an individual purchasing the product given that the individual recalls seeing the advertisement? Does seeing the advertisement increase the probability that the individual will purchase the product? As a decision maker, would you recommend continuing the advertisement(assuming that the cost is reasonable)?
.12 bought out of the .40 who remember seeing the ad.
.12/.40 = 30% bought <==ANSWER When only 30% were persuaded to buy their soap, the company may want to reconsider investing their money in these ads. b.)Assume the individuals who do not purchase the company's soap product buy from its competitors.What would be your estimate of the company's market share? 20% is the probability of someone buying their soap, from P(B) = .20. Would you expect that continuing the advertisement will increase the company's market share? Not likely Why or why not? While overall market share was 20%, the 30% of people remembering the ads who bought the soap does show an increase in purchasing, so it was effective. But it could have been a LOT more effective, so I'd explore other ideas. c.)The company also tested another advertisement and assigned it values of P(S)=.30 and P(B?S)=.10. What is P(B/S) for this other advertisement? .10/.30 = 33% bought Which advertisement seems to have had the bigger effect on customer purchases? The new ad seems to have a slightly bigger effect on customers. I hope that helps!! :-)
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Is Circumcision an Intelligent Design upgrade or was God trying to have a product recall on Foreskins?
Question by The Cat in the Tin Foil HAt: Is Circumcision an Intelligent Design upgrade or was God trying to have a product recall on Foreskins?
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Answer by Peter S
Neither, there is no god and circumcision is a downgrade not an upgrade
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