Tracy Davidson

Keeping track of the latest product and food recalls can be a challenge for any consumer, so Consumer Ally has collected them all in one place for you to check each week. Here is this week’s roundup: Target recalled 51,700 pairs of Circo Aloma Infant Girls Sandals because the decorative plastic flowers can detach, creating [...]

A new government review of some of the most serious food recalls in recent years slammed the nation’s top food safety agency for not effectively protecting the U.S. food supply. The scathing review by the Department of Health and Human Services found that the safety of the nation’s food supplies was compromised because FDA did [...]

Dole Fresh Vegetables recalled 2,880 cases of Dole Italian Blend salad and another 442 cases of Kroger Fresh Selections Italian Style Blend salad from 15 states and Canada after a sample tested positive for listeria monocytogenes contamination, the company said. So far no one has reported getting sick from eating the salad, the U.S. Food [...]

A maker of pourable fuel gel for decorative firepots is recalling about a half-million bottles after learning of dozens of accidents, including two near-fatal ones in New York, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced on Wednesday. Reports of severe burn accidents connected to the use of gel-fueled firepots, a relatively new product, have surfaced in [...]

The images are stark, visceral, even disgusting. And that’s really the  point. Nearly a half-century after U.S. cigarette packs were emblazoned with their  first, modest warning, “Caution: Cigarette Smoking May be Hazardous to Your  Health,” the Food and Drug Administration – at Congress’ behest – is going  graphic. It is requiring tobacco companies to print [...]

As the summer boating season enters full swing, states are moving to curtail a peril on the water — boating while intoxicated. Alcohol is the leading contributing factor in fatal boating accidents involving the USA’s 12.4 million registered boats, the U.S. Coast Guard says. There were 126 fatalities and 293 injuries in 330 alcohol-related boating [...]

Portable pools are a great way for children to keep cool and have fun in hot weather, but a new study shows that every five days a child drowns in a portable pool during the summer months in the US, the vast majority of them under five years of age. In many cases a brief [...]

Now that just about everyone is walking, shopping or driving with a mobile phone glued to their ear, the recent announcement from the World Health Organization declaring phone radiation a “possible” cause of brain cancer has billions of consumers understandably jittery. Because fear sells — and hucksters never miss an opportunity to make a quick [...]

Keeping track of the latest product and food recalls can be a challenge for any consumer, so Consumer Ally has collected them all in one place for you to check each week. Here is this week’s roundup: Target expanded a 2009 recall of Circo Child Booster Seats to include another 375,000 seats because the restraint [...]

Chrysler is recalling 11 of its 2011 models because a bad rivet could cause the steering wheel to collapse improperly in a collision. The recall covers more than 11,351 of its 2011 Chrysler Town & Country and Dodge Caravan minivans, Chrysler 200 and Dodge Caliber and Avenger cars, Jeep Wrangler SUVs and Dodge Journey and [...]