General Mills was just issued a Warning Letter by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for illegally marketing what Millennium Medical Information Services, Inc described as it’s new “drug”: Cheerios® Toasted Whole Grain Oat Cereal (Cheerios®).

The Cheerios® box reviewed by the FDA

included the following statements:

1) “you can Lower Your Cholesterol 4% in 6 weeks”

2) “Did you know that in just 6 weeks Cheerios can reduce bad cholesterol by an average of 4 percent? Cheerios is … clinically proven to lower cholesterol. A clinical study showed that eating two 1 1/2 cup servings daily of Cheerios cereal reduced bad cholesterol when eaten as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol.”

Millennium Medical Information explained that the FDA’s Warning Letter to General Mills is a reminder that both the broad nature of labeling as well as the broad definition for the word “drug” under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) can result in unintended consequences from what appear to be so-called “innocuous product claims and that the letter highlights the problems that can occur when marketing food and drugs in the United States. When formulating marketing pieces that include product/drug claims, marketers and their agents should consider the expansive nature of the definition of “labeling” under the Act and the implication of a misbranding claim, said Millennium Medical Information.

The question remains, said Millennium Medical Information, “Are Cheerios® a food or a drug?”

According to the Act, a “drug” includes “articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or other animals … ” [21 U.S.C. section 321(g)(1)(B)]. The Cheerios® label’s claims, the FDA said, “that Cheerios® is intended for use in lowering cholesterol, and therefore in preventing, mitigating, and treating the disease hypercholesterolemia and also claims that Cheerios® is intended for use in the treatment, mitigation, and prevention of coronary heart disease through, lowering total and “bad” (LDL) cholesterol.” The claims actually serve to present the breakfast cereal as a drug. The FDA letter can be accessed here: www.fda.gov/foi/warning_letters/s7188c.htm

Because Cheerios® “is not generally recognized, among experts … as safe and effective for use … suggested in the labeling ….” said the FDA, it qualifies as a “new drug” under the Act [21 U.S.C. section 321(P)(1)]. This means the cereal giant will have to seek out agency approval of a new drug application before the “new drug” can be introduced into interstate commerce [21 U.S.C. section 355(a)], said Millennium Medical Information, citing the FDA.

The FDA views Cheerios® as a “drug” because of how its maker described the cereal on the label. The agency also reviewed the product’s claims against regulatory authority governing health claims in food substances. Specifically, the FDA refers to the permissible soluble fiber health claim and the requirements in the applicable regulations and concluded that General Foods failed to conform to the specific requirements of the soluble fiber health claim concerning the degree of risk reduction for coronary heart disease to diets including foods eligible make that claim and also found that the cereal maker misbranded Cheerios® by including unauthorized health claims in its labeling, which appeared on its Website, not its box.

Big tobacco has lost another important court case. This time, a three judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said there was ample evidence to conclude that the tobacco industry intended to deceive the public about the dangers of smoking. According to Dow Jones News Wire, the panel upheld most of a lower court ruling which found that the industry’s deceptive marketing schemes violated federal anti-racketeering statutes.

• The Illustrated Man movie full

Foreign Exchange ipod

The original 2006 case had resulted in a lower court banning labels such as “low tar” and “light” Slaughter film for cigarettes. At the time, the court found that tobacco firms had conspired through a “gentlemen’s agreement” not to compete over whose cigarettes were the least damaging to health. Defendants in the case included Altria Group Inc.’s, Philip Morris subsidiary, Reynolds American Inc., British American Tobacco PLC and Lorillard Inc, Dow Jones said.

• buy Killer Nurse

In addition to banning labels like “low tar” for cigarettes, the 2006 decision also required manufacturers to issue corrective statements about the dangers of their products, which would appear on television, newspapers, product packaging and countertop displays in retail outlets.

In their appeal, the tobacco companies argued that the original decision was not supported by the law or the evidence presented at trial. But for the most part, the appeals panel rejected those arguments, Dow Jones said. In their 92-page ruling, the judges said that tobacco firms “knew about the negative health consequences of smoking, the addictiveness and manipulation of nicotine, the harmfulness of secondhand smoke, and the concept of smoker compensation, which makes light cigarettes no less harmful than regular cigarettes and possibly more.”

According to Dow Jones, the panel upheld the restrictions on tobacco marketing and the corrective statement requirement. However, the judges rejected efforts to force the tobacco industry to fund a $10 billion national smoking-cessation campaign, and it affirmed an earlier ruling that at the government couldn’t force the tobacco companies to forfeit up to $280 billion in profits.

The decision could be appealed, either to the full appeals court, or the U.S. Supreme Court, Dow Jones said.

Last Man Standing move

This is the second important appeal the tobacco industry has lost in recent months. Late last year, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the 1965 Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act does not protect cigarette makers from fraud lawsuits over how those makers market cigarettes they describe as “light” or “low tar.” Also, the high court said federal oversight of cigarette testing did not preclude those lawsuits.

Sky High movie

Just a little over a year since federal regulators ordered that Levaquin The Reader release and similar antibiotics bear Black Box warnings about their association with serious tendon injuries, the first Levaquin lawsuits are beginning to circulate through the courts.

According to The Wall Street Journal, one of the latest Levaquin lawsuits was just filed in a New Jersey state court on behalf of three plaintiffs from around the U.S. The lawsuit charges that Johnson & Johnson and Ortho-McNeil represented Levaquin as a safe antibiotic despite its known association with tendon damage. The attorney representing the three Levaquin plaintiffs also pointed out that the drug is far more expensive than generic alternatives that have better safety profiles, the Journal said.

In 2008, the Food & Drug Administration

The In-Laws movie

End of the Line rip

(FDA) required that the labeling of Levaquin and other fluoroquinolone antibiotics be revised to include a Black Box warning about tendon injuries. At the time, the FDA database showed 262 reported cases of tendon ruptures, 259 cases of tendinitis, and 274 cases of other tendon disorders associated with these drugs. The majority of tendon ruptures – 61 percent – were tied to Levaquin.

big wednesday download

At the time, the FDA warned that pain, swelling, inflammation, and tears of tendons including the Achilles, shoulder, hand, or others can happen in patients taking Levaquin. The agency said such injuries were more likely to occur in people who are over 60 years of age, taking steroids (corticosteroids), or who have undergone a kidney, heart, or lung transplant.

Becket dvd 9 psp

• Sleeper move

• School for Scoundrels film

Jimi Hendrix: The Uncut Story dvdrip Dracula: Dead and Loving It full movie The most common tendon injury associated with Levaquin involves the Achilles tendon. Tendinitis and tendon rupture in the rotator cuff (the shoulder), the hand, the biceps, and the thumb have also been reported. In some cases, Levaquin tendon ruptures have required surgical repair, and victims have needed to undergo extensive rehab. Tendon rupture can occur during or after completion of a course of Levaquin, although cases occurring up to several months after completion of therapy have been reported.

The Vanguard psp

The Illustrated Man movies The first Levaquin tendon injury trial is expected to begin sometime in the late summer of 2010. Most litigation specialists expect thousands of people to file such lawsuits against the makers of Levaquin and similar drugs. Last June, federal Levaquin lawsuits were consolidated in a Multidistrict Litigation before U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim in the District of Minnesota. Recently, attorneys representing Levaquin victims in New Jersey state court requested that those lawsuits be centralized before one judge, as well.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) just released a report about child drowning deaths and injuries in pools and spas in anticipation of this Memorial Day weekend as pools open nationwide.

According to agency data

, nearly 300 children under the age of five drown in pools and spas annually; about 3,000 suffer pool- or spa-related injuries requiring hospital emergency room care. Two-thirds of all pool- and spa-related deaths and injuries involve children between one and two years of age, with 80 percent of all drowning deaths occurring in residential settings. Between 1999 and 2008, there were 83 reports of pool and spa entrapments, including 11 deaths and 69 injuries. Since 1999, 14 percent of the reported pool and spa suction/entrapment incidents were fatal. Children become caught in a pool’s suction and suffer disembowelment, evisceration, paralysis, scarring, permanent welting, and drowning.

Yesterday, acting CPSC Chairman Chairman Nancy Nord, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Safe Kids USA, and Scott Taylor (father of Abigail Taylor, who suffered fatal injuries from an evisceration incident in a wading pool), spoke on Capitol Hill to encourage parents, caregivers, and pool owners to make safety a top priority as the summer swim season officially opens.

“Preventing child drownings is a key part of CPSC’s mission. I call upon all parents, caregivers and pool and spa operators to ensure that fencing and other layers of protection are in place; that there is constant supervision of children in and around the water; and that new, safer drain covers that prevent entrapment incidents are installed,” said Acting Chairman Nord. “I want to thank the Congress for providing CPSC with funds this year to implement the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act. This is an important child safety law and CPSC will use the new funds to increase compliance with the law, educate on pool and spa safety measures, implement the state grant program, partner with state and local government on enforcement and make pools and spas even safer,” added Nord.

The critical law, aimed at saving children’s lives, has largely been ignored, despite that failure to comply could result in facility closure. The law requires installation of anti-entrapment drain covers and other systems meant to prevent the tragic and hidden hazards that plague children in pools and spas. Under the law, all public pools and spas must have compliant drain covers installed; a second anti-entrapment system must be installed when there is only one, single main drain. Seasonal public pools and spas must be in compliance with the law on the day that they reopen.

The CPSC is focusing on public wading pools, kiddie pools, and in-ground spas and has called upon state departments of health for enforcement. CPSC also launched a new Web site—www.PoolSafety.gov—that provides information about the P&SS Act and drowning.

Never Back Down movie

To reduce accident risks, pool owners should adopt several layers of protection including physical barriers, such as a fence completely surrounding the pool with self-closing, self-latching gates to prevent unsupervised access by young children. If the house forms a side of the barrier, use alarms on doors leading to the pool area and/or a power safety cover over the pool. In addition, reports of children exiting the house via a pet door have been on the rise.

The law was named after Virginia Graeme Baker, the seven-year-old granddaughter of former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker. The child died in a hot tub at a school party in 2002. Despite this and other horrible stories that discuss similar, gruesome tragedies, including stories about children spending a lifetime on feeding tubes, many states allow noncompliant pools to remain open.

Earlier this week we reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that L&M Companies, Inc. of Raleigh, North Carolina, issued a three-state recall of its whole cantaloupes because of a possible health risk due to concerns of Salmonella contamination. Now, the Packer reports that investigators have been unable to locate additional Salmonella at L&M.

The FDA

discovered Salmonella from a test on one farm bin scheduled for distribution to the packinghouse, said The Packer. ABC Research Corporation of Gainesville, Florida—L&M’s third-party auditor—conducted 18 more tests for Salmonella, which all came back negative for the pathogen, according to The Packer.

The L&M Companies recall involved one lot of whole cantaloupes; no illnesses have been reported, to date. The whole cantaloupes were sold between May 10-15, 2009 in Wal-Mart Supercenter Stores in North Carolina and South Carolina as well as in the Wal-Mart Supercenter Store located at 315 Furr Street in South Hill, Virginia. Consumers who purchased whole cantaloupes from these Wal-Mart stores during this period were previously alerted to not consume them, and to destroy the product.

The recall comes after a cantaloupe at a farm from which L&M Companies sources its products tested positive for Salmonella. The Packer reported that L&M—which grows its own melons and sources from other contract growers in the Southeast—stopped shipments from this farm; the grower continues to investigate the cause of the problem. The grower, Pass Line Farms of Immokalee, Florida, shipped 73 bins, which The Packer explained, is a bit more than one load. Pass Line shipped the melons to Wal-Mart distribution centers in North and South Carolina, added The Packer.

The Salmonella pathogen can cause serious, sometimes fatal Salmonellosis infections in young children; weak or elderly people; and those with weakened immune systems, such as patients undergoing chemotherapy or who have been diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and other immune system compromising diseases.

Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain within 12 to 72 hours of contamination. Generally, the illness lasts a week, but, in some, hospitalization is required because the infection may have spread to the blood stream and other body sites, producing more severe illnesses. Without treatment, severe cases of Salmonella poisoning can result in arterial infections—such as infected aneurysms—endocarditis, arthritis, and death. Some Salmonella bacteria are resistant to antibiotics, largely due to the use of antibiotics to promote the growth of feed animals.

Highlander: The Search for Vengeance rip

The Scorpion King rip

Slipstream move Salmonella is usually found in food contaminated with animal feces and is a group of bacteria that passes from the feces of people or animals to other people or animals, causing contamination when food is improperly stored or handled and when preparers do not wash their hands or sanitize implements involved in food storage.

The Funhouse the movie

Salmonella is the most frequently reported cause of food-related outbreaks of stomach illness worldwide and Salmonella poisoning can lead to Reiter’s Syndrome, a difficult-to-treat reactive arthritis characterized by severe joint pain, irritation of the eyes, and painful urination.

Nutro Products has issued a recall for some NUTRO® NATURAL CHOICE® COMPLETE CARE® Dry Cat Foods and NUTRO® MAX® Cat Dry Foods, announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The recall was issued because incorrect levels of zinc and potassium in the finished product resulted from a production error by a US-based premix supplier. The recall involves listed products with “Best If Used By Dates” between May 12, 2010 and August 22, 2010.

The cat food is being voluntarily recalled in the United States and Canada, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, New Zealand, and Israel, said the FDA. According to the FDA, two mineral premixes were affected. One contained excessive levels of zinc and under-supplemented potassium; the second involved under-supplemented potassium. Both minerals are essential nutrients for cats and are added as nutritional supplements to NUTRO® dry cat food. This issue was identified during an audit of supplier documentation. An extensive review confirmed that only these two premixes were affected; the recall does not affect any NUTRO® dog food products, wet dog or cat food, or dog and cat treats.

Consumers who have purchased the recalled cat food should immediately discontinue feeding the product to their cats, and switch to another product with a balanced nutritional profile. Cat owners are advised to monitor their cat for symptoms, including a reduction in appetite or refusal of food, weight loss, vomiting, or diarrhea. If your cat is experiencing health issues or is pregnant, please contact your veterinarian.

Consumers who have purchased product affected by this voluntary recall should return it to their retailer for a full refund or exchange for another NUTRO® dry cat food product. Cat owners who have questions about the recall should call 1-800-833-5330 between the hours 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM CST, or visit www.nutroproducts.com.

Following are the recalled Nutro cat and kitten food products:

NUTRO® NATURAL CHOICE® COMPLETE CARE® Kitten Food:
4 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 20607 5
8 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 20608 2
20 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 20609 9
Bonus Bag: 9.2 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 20695 2
Sample Bag: 1.5 oz/no UPC

NUTRO® NATURAL CHOICE® COMPLETE CARE® Adult:
4 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 20610 5
8 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 20611 2
20 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 20612 9
Bonus Bag: 9.2 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 20694 5
Sample Bag: 1.5 oz/no UPC

NUTRO® NATURAL CHOICE® COMPLETE CARE® Adult Oceanfish Flavor:
4 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 20622 8
8 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 20623 5
20 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 20624 2

Bonus Bag: 9.2 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 20698 3

NUTRO® MAX® Cat Adult Roasted Chicken Flavor:
3 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 10228 5
6 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 10229 2
16 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 10230 8
Sample Bag: 1.5 oz/no UPC

NUTRO® MAX® Cat Indoor Adult Roasted Chicken Flavor:
3 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 10243 8
6 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 10244 5
16 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 10245 2
Sample Bag: 1.5 oz/no UPC

NUTRO® MAX® Cat Indoor Adult Salmon Flavor:
3 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 10246 9
6 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 10247 6
High Crimes video
16 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 10248 3

NUTRO® MAX® Cat Indoor Weight Control:
3 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 10249 0
6 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 10250 6
16 lbs/UPC: 0 79105 10251 3

Four Dragons aka Kinta buy

After spending years promising to do so, federal regulators are said to be near releasing new guidelines for sunscreens. According to WebMD, the new sunscreen labeling rules should be finalized by the end of the year.

More than 1 million Americans are diagnosed with skin cancer every year, all the result of damage caused by the sun’s rays. While most skin cancers can be treated effectively, a form of the disease called melanoma is more aggressive and can lead to death.

For best protection, sunscreen should be applied generously, about 20-30 minutes before going outside. It should also be reapplied every 2 hours. Unfortunately, because of confusing – and some say misleading – sunscreen labels, many consumers don’t know they should be applying that much, that often.

The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) had first promised to propose new sunscreen labeling regulations more than a decade ago, but the agency kept delaying its proposal. Congress had ordered the agency to finish its proposal by May 2006, but the FDA missed the deadline. Members of congress then mounted a letter-writing campaign in order to pressure the FDA to issue new rules. In 2006, a class action lawsuit was filed against five of the leading U.S. makers of sunscreen lotions and sprays alleging that the products were deceptively promoted as offering protection from the sun’s harmful rays .

According to WebMD, the new rules would for the first time require sunscreen labels to provide information on how well they protect users from ultraviolet A (UVA) rays. These rays don’t cause sunburn, but they do contribute to skin cancers and skin aging, the report said.

Makers of sunscreen will also no longer be able to use certain claims on labels, WebMD said. For example, claims of SPFs higher than 50 will be barred unless they can be backed up by scientific evidence. Also terms like “sunblock,” “waterproof,” “sweat-proof,” and “all-day protection” will not be allowed.

Labels will also have to advise consumers to limit their time in the sun, wear protective clothing, and reapply sunscreen at a minimum of every two hours, especially after swimming or perspiring, WebMD said. Sunscreens will also be subjected to lab and human skin tests using a standardized sun simulator.

Once the new regulations are announced by the FDA, sunscreen makers will have 18 months to change their labels. The major manufacturers told WebMD that they planned to comply, although some said they may challenge the 50+ SPF cap.

A recent study confirms what experts have long suspected. Containers made with the plastic hardening chemical bisphenol A (BPA) leach BPA into the liquids being held, said the LA Times. BPA is used in the manufacture of polycarbonate and other hard plastic products, including water and baby bottles, sippy cups, dental sealants and composites, and the linings used for canned foods, among many other common items.

According to the Harvard School of Public Health, BPA exposure has been shown to interfere with reproductive development in animals and has been linked with cardiovascular disease and diabetes in humans. Despite industry’s arguments that BPA is safe at current dosages, the ever-present chemical, an estrogenic, has also been linked to an increased risk of diseases or disorders of the brain, reproductive, and immune systems; problems with liver function testing; and interruptions in chemotherapy treatment. BPA is also associated with serious health problems based on 130 studies conducted in the past decade and newer research found BPA to have negative effects at “very low doses,” lower than the Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) current safety standards.

Most recently, studies revealed BPA seems to stay in the body longer than previously believed. BPA can be found virtually everywhere and is present in detectable levels in just about every human body. The highest levels are seen, noted the Chicago Tribune in a prior report, in the youngest Americans. A concern since BPA is known to leach in increased doses when containers made of the dangerous chemical are heated, as is often the case with baby bottles.

Meanwhile, the FDA continues to maintain BPA is safe despite that it relied solely on two industry-funded studies for its draft review, something for which the agency has long been criticized.

The recent study, conducted by Harvard School of Public Health researchers, tested the link between containers composed of BPA and BPA concentrations in urine, said the LA Times. The team worked with 77 students who, during the so-called “washout phase,” did not drink from plastic bottles and, instead, used stainless steel bottles. In the polycarbonate phase, students only drank from polycarbonate bottles. Urine samples were analyzed before and after the polycarbonate phase and found BPA concentrations increased by 69 percent in the week following consumption with BPA-containing bottles.

Harvard noted that its study is the first to show that drinking from polycarbonate bottles increases urinary BPA levels, which suggests that drinking containers manufactured with BPA release the toxin into the liquid people drink in amounts that increase urinary BPA levels. “We found that drinking cold liquids from polycarbonate bottles for just one week increased urinary BPA levels by more than two-thirds. If you heat those bottles, as is the case with baby bottles, we would expect the levels to be considerably higher. This would be of concern since infants may be particularly susceptible to BPA’s endocrine-disrupting potential,” said Karin B. Michels, the study’s senior author and associate professor of epidemiology at HSPH and Harvard Medical School.

The journal Environmental Health Perspectives reported that in 2003, the majority–three-quarters—of the nearly two billion pounds of BPA used in the United States was for manufacture of polycarbonate resin.

A woman who worked for State Farm on Hurricane Katrina claims has testified that the insurer did not bother to thoroughly investigate property damage for policyholders affected by the 2005 hurricane’s storm surge. According to SunHerald.com, Kerri Rigsby said at the time that State Farm held that if a house in the path of Katrina’s storm surge was a total loss, it was caused by water, not by wind.

State Farm was one of the largest insurers on the Gulf Coast when Katrina made landfall there in 2005. Thousands of homes were reduced to rubble by wind and the massive storm surge created by the hurricane. Normal home owners policies do not cover damages from flooding, only wind. But in the case of Katrina claims, many home owners accused State Farm and other insurance companies of attributing damage to flooding, when in reality it was caused by wind, as a way to avoid paying the full value of claims. Some insurance companies initially made offers to settle claims for only pennies on the dollar, sparking thousands of lawsuits along the Gulf Coast.

Rigsby testified yesterday at a hearing in Mississippi to determine if a whistleblower lawsuit against State Farm should go forward. According to SunHerald.com, Kerri Rigsby and her sister, Cori, have accused the insurer of conspiring with two vendors to minimize what the company owed for wind damage by overcharging the federal government for water damage. The sisters worked for independent adjusting firm E.A. Renfro, and Kerri performed work for State Farm after Katrina.

Kerri Rigsby testified that in the weeks following Katrina, she attended a State Farm meeting where adjusters were told to “hit policy limits” on flood claims and tell policyholders an engineer would be sent out to determine whether State Farm owed money for wind damage.

According to insurancenewsnet.com, Rigsby also said the company told her storm surge preceded Katrina’s winds. “State Farm indicated there was no question, if (a house) was a total loss, it was caused by flood,” Rigsby said. She later added, “I believe that we owe the policyholder a thorough investigation. I don’t believe we did a thorough investigation down here to determine how much was wind and how much was water.”

According to SunHerald.com, she also repeated allegations that a State Farm claims manager ordered reports changed if they failed to conclude that water was the cause of a policyholder’s damage. Finally, Kerri Rigsby alleged that the insurer canceled inspection reports “en masse” if too many reflected wind damage.

Bunn-O-Matic Single Cup Pod Brewers, Gothic Cabinet Craft Bunk Beds, and Ross Stores St. Anne Acacia Benches have all been recalled for a variety of hazards, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

Bunn-O-Matic Single Cup Tea/Coffeemakers

Jackass: The Movie film
Bunn-O-Matic Corporation of Springfield, Illinois issued a recall for about 35,600 Bunn® Single Cup Pod Brewers due to burn hazard. The pod drawer of the pod brewer can open unexpectedly during a brew cycle, posing a burn hazard to consumers. Bunn-O-Matic has received 10 reports of the drawer opening unexpectedly, including one report of minor burns.

This recall involves Bunn® Single Pod Brewers in model MCP (My Café Pourover) and MCA (My Café Automatic). The pod brewers have a black body with stainless backsplash and measure 12 inches high by eight inches wide. “Bunn®” is printed on the front and lights up when the pod brewer is on. The recalled Bunn-O-Matic Tea/Coffeemakers were made in the United States and sold for about $300 at Web retailers and department and hardware stores nationwide between August 2004 and March 2009.

Raise Your Voice dvd

The CPSC is advising consumers to immediately stop using the recalled tea/coffeemakers and contact the firm to obtain two replacement pod drawers. Bunn-O-Matic can be reached toll-free at 1-800-741-3405 between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. CT Monday through Friday, or at its Web site at www.bunn.com

• The One That Got Away movie download

Gothic Cabinet Craft Bunk Beds
Gothic Cabinet Craft Inc. of Maspeth, New York issued a recall for about 1,500 Twin, Twin Extra-Large, and Twin Over Full Bunk Beds because the bunk beds do not have sufficient headboards, footboards, or guardrails and also have gaps between parts of the upper bunk that could allow a child’s body—but not a child’s head—to pass through. These bunk beds pose a fall, entrapment, and strangulation hazard to children and violate the spacing requirements of the federal bunk bed safety standard.

Both metal and wooden bunk beds are being recalled. Styles include dark oak and metal and solid pine; others come with six drawers as part of the base. The recalled Gothic Cabinet Craft Bunk Beds were manufactured in the U.S. and sold by retail stores in the New York and New Jersey metropolitan area from June 2000 through October 2008 for between $225 and $850.

The CPSC is advising consumers to immediately stop using these bunk beds and contact Gothic Cabinet Craft Inc. to schedule an appointment and free repair. The Gothic Cabinet Craft Outlet can be reached toll free at 1-877-946-8442 between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. ET Monday through Friday or at the firm’s Web site at www.gothiccabinetcraft.com

Ross Stores Benches
Ross Stores Inc. of Pleasanton, California has recalled about 225 of its 39-inch St. Anne Acacia Benches because the bench frame can collapse when weight is placed on it, posing a fall hazard to consumers. Ross Stores has received two reports of incidents but no reports of injuries.

The recalled St. Anne Acadia Benches, which were manufactured in Vietnam, are made of acacia wood with SKU 400037765413 and manufacturer style number GB1F printed on a hangtag attached to the bench. The acacia wood benches measure 39-inches wide, 20-inches deep, and 36-inches high and sold for about $90 at Ross Stores nationwide in March 2009.

The CPSC is advising consumers to stop using these benches immediately and return them to any Ross Store for a full refund. Ross can be reached toll-free at 1-877-455-7677 anytime or at the firm’s Web site at www.rossstores.com