Defective & Dangerous Products

• Diet Safety: Is there really anything 'safe' about it?

  Megan Roth | January 30, 2009 1:02 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Considering the recent updates that have been made in the news, I figure it’s only right we give an update to our Injuryboard readers (granted, the vast majority of you probably stay on top of...

• Diet Safety: Over-vitaminizing as a trend

  Megan Roth | January 29, 2009 1:36 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  As mentioned time and time again, January is diet safety month on InjuryBoard. I think it’s safe to say when most of us think of diet safety, we think of weight loss and physical fitness. ...

• Diet Safety: Why the Fuss?

  Megan Roth | January 28, 2009 1:35 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  If you follow the InjuryBoard blogs, you probably know that I’ve spent the better part of the month writing on the issues surrounding diet pills / supplements. For many of the reviewed...

• Melamine is processed from coal

  Steve Lombardi | January 28, 2009 9:45 AM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  The problem isn’t just melamine; the problem is greater http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlkiQ_0G5ww

• Food Safety: Peanut butter paste and poisoning

  Steve Lombardi | January 26, 2009 1:11 PM | 2 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Here are a few reports from YouTube concerning peanut butter and food poisoning. Peanut butter salmonella outbreak http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipeMc8sQVQM FDA: Peanut Butter Possible...

• Food Safety: 3rd Minnesotan dies, peanut butter food poison

  Steve Lombardi | January 26, 2009 10:19 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  The Salmonella food poisoning crisis in peanut butter may have caused a third nursing home resident death in the Brainerd area. The products have been linked to some degree from a Peanut Corp. of...

• Diet Safety: Acai and the New You

  Megan Roth | January 26, 2009 1:42 AM | 2 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  The Acai berry – I like to think of it as the pomegranate of 2009 (remember a couple of years ago when the pomegranate was hyped up all over the news for its health benefits? Well, a new...

• Diet Safety: Going shot-for-shot in your battle against the bulge

  Megan Roth | January 25, 2009 5:00 PM | 2 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Much to my dismay, I was up early yesterday morning (6 AM on a Saturday? Ugh – what happened to the days of sleeping in?!) It was good, though – before my roommates had even risen for...

• Salmonella's still out there...

  Megan Roth | January 23, 2009 1:39 PM | 3 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Per yesterday’s article and the dozens of others that are decorating the ‘walls’ of Injuryboard, we know that the recent Salmonella outbreak is bad news. We know that 125...

• Silence of the lambs - Melamine Contamination Corruption Cover-up for the CCP - Death? Life in Prison? How about investigating government corruption.

  Steve Lombardi | January 23, 2009 10:19 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Here is the report of two corporate dairy executives from China being sentenced to death. Jayne Akre, our IB National News Desk Reporter writes it as well as anyone so let's just link to her...