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• Funeral Home Malpractice: Body Snatching and Medical Transplants

  Laura Blatt | May 23, 2007 12:27 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Three funeral home directors and four employees of a biomedical supply company are accused of stealing body parts, organs and tissue from corpses awaiting cremation or burial. Other charges include opening graves, unlawful dissection and fraud. The defendants allegedly sold the parts to medical tissue banks, which provided them to hospitals and doctors for use in transplants and other medical...

• Consumer Product Safety: Is Michael Baroody the Fox Guarding the Henhouse?

  Laura Blatt | May 23, 2007 12:24 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  President Bush's nominee to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is none other than Michael Baroody, the vice president of the industry-driven National Association of Manufacturers. This group makes the products that the Commission regulates and its members include corporate giants such as Dow Chemical and Proctor & Gamble. Mr. Baroody is known for lobbying against fire-safe...

• Defective Products: Do You Have a "Killer Stove"?

  Laura Blatt | May 21, 2007 9:50 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  "Killer stoves" have caused the deaths of 33 people and injured at least 84 others from 1980 through 2006, according to Public Citizen and the Consumer Federation of America. The groups are referring to freestanding kitchen ranges that can easily topple over, crushing their victims or causing burns from spilled hot foods. Manufacturers began using lighter, cheaper materials in freestanding...

• Funeral Home Negligence: CA Mortician Loses License

  Laura Blatt | May 17, 2007 12:32 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A mortician's license was indefinitely suspended for improperly storing bodies, allowing them to decay in a warehouse without proper refrigeration. Anthony Villeggiante is co-owner of Abby Chapel of the Redwoods in Rohnert Park, California. The mortuary has now been shut down. When state inspectors checked the warehouse in March, they found nine bodies. A swamp cooler and baby powder did nothing...

• Toxic Toy Legislation Bans Phthalates Used in Baby Toys

  Christina Cole | May 09, 2007 8:46 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Toxic Substances

  The Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxics Materials Committee passed legislation, authored by Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, to eliminate a dangerous toxic chemical that is used in the manufacturing of baby toys. AB 1108 passed the committee with an unofficial vote of 5-2. During the hearing, the bill was amended to include a ban on phthalates only. After It was agreed upon to focus on banning...

• Former Crematory Owners Plead Guilty to Negligence

  Christina Cole | May 04, 2007 10:52 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The former owners of Bayview Crematory that was closed over two years ago after investigators discovered remains and a body in a broken cooler - have agreed to plead guilty to several charges. Charges included negligence and the filing of false tax returns.The crematorium that handled close to 2,000 bodies each year from funeral homes in Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire had been operating...