Q&A: What is your opinion on recent recalls?
Question by m: What is your opinion on recent recalls?
Because baby furniture, food, and toys are being recalled for hazards, additives and poisons ~ there are rumors that prices will be higher for many of these products and especially for toys at Christmas (good way to get parents to pay any amount for safety).
I want to know why we should have to pay for the abysmal oversight of U.S. companies who are only interested in profits.
The only way I would willingly pay more to these companies for their products is if they brought production back to the U.S., paid U.S. taxes so the product safety inspections can be funded at the level needed, and hire American workers again.
Also the corporations keep blaming China for everything, but it is the manufacturers who insist on sending work there for cheap labor, do not follow their own safety guidelines for reporting discovered dangers, and instead of paying for the fiascos from profits, charge the consumers. ~ They should stop passing the buck and take full responsibility.
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Thanks
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Answer by How_Would_I_Know
I can’t really see how it would make sense to use something like this as a way to jack up prices for Christmas. The companies involved are going to lose a lot more money and reputation than they’ll get from that..
And hopefully this will prompt a lot of people to look for domestic goods to purchase, instead of cheap, shoddy Chinese imports. That can only be good for us.
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Q&A: If a company sells a product months after it’s recalled, what’s the liability?
Question by fran: If a company sells a product months after it’s recalled, what’s the liability?
I asked a question earlier about this regarding my foot warmer which burned through everything. I have just learned that the product was recalled BEFORE they sold the product!
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Answer by Victoria Sparda
Oh yes…by selling a recalled product they have to pay for any damages………….and then some based on how you go at it.
It was recalled for a reason….it’s the store’s responsibility to get it off their shelves.
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Does anyone know the product numbers of the recalled dog and cat food?
Question by catsmeowjrk2000: Does anyone know the product numbers of the recalled dog and cat food?
Menu Foods recalled 46 brands of dog food and 37 brands of cat food including Iams, Nutro and Eukanuba. The company has not released the product numbers.
The website only lists the names. It does not have the product numbers.
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Answer by Jessica
They are located on their website.
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How does the recall process work?- please help me?
Question by s: How does the recall process work?- please help me?
Hey i am an Engineering Student. We are doing a project for a class. We have to figure out how the whole process for RECALL of airplane parts work. How are the parts identified? How is the information given out to customers. What happens to the product after it is recalled. i have been trying to search on internet i cant seem to find much information. Can anyone please give some links or sites to help me out. thanks
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Answer by JimT
serial numbers and invoices. Check Quality Control sites
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What are you doing about Mattel Fisher-Price recall?
Question by Tonks: What are you doing about Mattel Fisher-Price recall?
My daughter received one of the Mattel products that are on the recall list for her birthday recently. The recall notice says the date code should be between 109-7LF thru 187-7LF.
The toy set she received has a date code of 017-7LF, which means it’s not up for recall. However, I still took the toy away from her because I am a bit uneasy about the possibility of lead in the product. I’ve already been affected by the Thomas train recall and am growing very concerned. Any opinions? Should I allow her to play with the supposed “non-affected” recalled product?
I believe I mentioned that someone “gave” my daughter the recalled product. I don’t make a habit of buying “Made in China.”
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Answer by rba01701
let her have it I am sure it was tested or just buy made in america toys
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Recall mechanic /electric problem with new product?
Question by Lee: Recall mechanic /electric problem with new product?
How does a person start action,to get the company to start a recall on one of there newer products
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Answer by Bob A
Get a lawyer and sue.
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Recalls on Made in China products…Enough?
Question by SharpDr08: Recalls on Made in China products…Enough?
This week Fisher-Price recalled about 1 million dolls, because they contained excessive amounts of lead, they were made in China. Yes China make the products for cheap, but when there is a recall involved, which quite often it happens; first it hurts the image of the American company, lowers the consumer trust in that company, and finally it costs the company more money. I believe that in the upcoming years, American companies are going to fed up with China imports and start making products back in the US? would this be a possibility, what do you think?
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Answer by tan0301
It would be nice to think that, but I don’t know. Labor is so much cheaper over seas, even with the recall they still probably come out to the good. And we all know that we have short memories… as soon as that 2 year old starts crying in walmart a month from now that frazzled mom is going to buy fisher price!
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If a product gets recalled or banned, what happens to the factory workers who were working there?
Question by Brandon H: If a product gets recalled or banned, what happens to the factory workers who were working there?
An example: Studies suddenly showed that Pepsi causes a mutating skin cancer. The government steps in and banns all Pepsi to be sold, drank, or even produced. To the Pepsi corporation, what happens?
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Answer by phatmattd
The government wouldn’t stop Pepsi to be produced, sold, and consumed. With today’s technology, they would know what caused this mutating skin cancer and take that one part out of Pepsi. The workers would all keep about their work.
Every heard of Aqua Dots? They were “creative” toys for kids. A bunch of dots that kids would put together and when you poured water on them, they came together to make your shape into one item instead of a bunch of dots. We came to find out that when swallowed and combined with the contents of a child’s stomach, the Aqua Dots turned into a date rape drug. They were completely recalled and taken off the market for good.
What happened?
The company made new Aqua Dots that didn’t make kids pass out for hours to wake up with a killer hangover.
Long story short, The company would just remake their product.
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important info re: infantino brand slings!!!?
Question by Sheryl: important info re: infantino brand slings!!!?
(CBS) The popularity of baby slings has been on the rise over the past four years.
But, reports “Early Show” Consumer Correspondent Susan Koeppen, the Consumer Product Safety Commission says two slings are considered so dangerous they’re being pulled from the market, and parents are being told to stop using them.
Earlier this month, “The Early Show” broke the news that federal regulators were warning of possible suffocation hazards posed by baby slings — which parents put around their necks and carry their babies in.
Now, the CPSC has announced the voluntary recall of one million slings made by Infantino.
The Sling Rider and the Wendy Bellissimo are being pulled because they pose a suffocation risk, Koeppen says.
Asked by Koeppen how quickly a child could suffocate in “one these slings,” CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum responded, “In a matter of minutes.”
Tenenbaum says three children died in Infantino slings last year alone.
“You might have your baby in a sling next to you and not notice that the baby has gone into (a) position (in which he or she) cannot breathe” until it’s too late, Tenenbaum added.
That, notes Koeppen, is exactly what happened to seven-day-old Derrik Fowler during a shopping trip with his mother, Lisa Cochran.
She’d been carrying her newborn in a sling made by Infantino. “By the time I got to the car and pulled him out of the sling to put him in his car seat, he was no longer of normal color,” Cochran recalls.
Infants younger than four months are at greatest risk in slings, Koeppen points out, because their weak neck muscles mean they have no head control. An infant can curl into a “C”-shape, with the chin falling into the chest — restricting the baby’s airway.
There are no federal or voluntary safety standards for infant slings.
In a statement, Infantino says, “Safety is our No. 1 concern,” adding it “has also been working closely with the CPSC and other agencies … to develop safety standards for baby slings.”
But, observes Koeppen, that’s of little consolation to mothers such as Cochran, who says, “As a first-time mom, I had no clue I could walk into a store and pick something off the shelf that wasn’t safe.”
Consumers are being advised to stop using the recalled Infantino baby slings immediately and contact the company for a free replacement product.
To get it, take the tags off your recalled sling and send the tags to Infantiono, Koeppen says, adding, “There are three different products that you could get in return. You have a choice. There is a shopping cart carrier. There is a different type of baby carrier. There’s also an activity gym that you can receive for free.”
As for baby slings not included in the recall, Koeppen repeated parent sholdn’t use them if their infant is less than four months old.
The CPSC, Koeppen says, is also looking at all baby slings, investigating them — the ones that are on the market currently — and will be working toward mandatory federal safety standards.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/24/earlyshow/living/ConsumerWatch/main6328292.shtml
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Answer by ????????????
Ugh!
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RECALL of PET FOOD – why would they delete my question?
Question by JV: RECALL of PET FOOD – why would they delete my question?
RECALL of PET FOOD – why would they delete my question?
How can they say they want a “safe and useful community” and send me this in an e-mail?
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Deleted Question: RECALL dog & cat massive pet food recall, kidney failure, death, please check your pantry?
Question Details: MANY DIFFERENT BRANDS, CANS & POUCHES, CAT & DOG FOODS A complete list of the recalled products along with product codes, descriptions and production dates was available from the Menu Foods Web site — http://www.menufoods.com/recall… — and consumers also could call (866) 463-6738.
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Answer by Buff
Don’t take it personally…someone reported you and Yahoo Answers took the question off w/o even reading the content.
The recall info is good information…thank you for passing it along!
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