On July 24, 2024, Boar’s Head Provisions Co., Inc. issued a recall for its deli meat products due to possible contamination by a dangerous bacteria called Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria is the third leading cause of death by food poisoning in the U.S.,...
You might have heard about the big coffee recall recently issued in June 2024. Over 300 canned coffee products produced by Snapchill coffee, a Wisconsin-based company, were recalled due to a potentially fatal food toxin. Keep reading to find out more behind the...
The number of medical devices used to help diagnose, treat, or cure a patient is endless. A medical device is any apparatus, instrument, machine, implant, appliance, software, material, or other similar agents that are manufactured to be used for a medical purpose....
Over the past few years, the Juul, a type of e-cigarette, has rapidly gained popularity among the youth, namely college students and young adults. The founders of Juul got their start from a Stanford University design thesis. After finishing the design thesis, they...
At first glance, you may not think medical malpractice and product liability have much in common — after all, isn’t one associated with things like exploding cell phones and curling iron burns, while the other has to do with a doctor making a mistake during surgery?...
As the recent spate of cell phone and e-cigarette explosions in the news have demonstrated, the products upon which we rely every day can sometimes be very dangerous, and get more so as the technology inside them grows more complex. But what happens when you get...