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"Lead-tainted toys, kids' jewelry recalled"

Last Updated: Monday, November 3rd, 2008 | 10:11 AM ET David Bruser , Torstar News Service

TORONTO - Health Canada has ordered thousands of toys and children's costume jewelry items off store shelves after a Toronto Star investigation found they contained dangerously high levels of lead.

One of the items is a baby pacifier that was sold at Everything For a Dollar in Scarborough . Another is a scrapbook charm sold at Dollarama that was so poisonous Health Canada determined a child could die from swallowing the penny-sized bauble.

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"Toronto health officials issue hep-A warning for diners at Sushi eatery"

Last Updated: Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 | 1:33 PM ET

TORONTO - Toronto Public Health officials are warning people who recently ate at a west-end restaurant that they may have been exposed to hepatitis A.
A food handler at Sushi Haru restaurant at 653 College Street has tested positive for the virus, health officials say.

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"Fly-infested gloves prompt Health
Canada probe "

Source: Canwest News Service
May 28, 2008 12.56 ET

VANCOUVER - Health Canada has launched an investigation after flies and what seemed to be larvae were found in the latex medical gloves used by dentists and doctors to perform oral and internal exams like Pap tests or rectal exams.

In a statement Wednesday, Health Canada said insects and other foreign matter are a "safety concern."

"This would therefore contravene the safety and effectiveness requirements of the medical device's regulations," said the statement.

Some latex examination gloves being used by dentists and doctors across Canada contain flies, larvae and unidentified black matter, a Global B.C. investigation has revealed.

A technician in Dr. Victor Hasson's Vancouver hair replacement clinic first noticed something strange about one of the gloves imported by Calgary-based distributor, Hedy Canada .

A look through a high-powered microscope not only revealed flies with their wings still attached embedded in the gloves, but also metallic black matter.

Independent lab tests confirmed the presence of flies, matter consistent with larvae, unidentified black material and also showed there were holes in most of the nine gloves inspected.

"Any kind of medical facility will be using these gloves on a continuous basis. It's certainly nothing that anyone would like to see in a medical product," said Hasson. "This may just be the tip of the iceberg, who knows?"

Health Canada said one of their inspectors will be contacting the Calgary importer.

B.C. Health Minister George Abbott said his ministry has been advised the gloves are not licensed for surgical use.

"To that extent, I guess that's comforting," he said. "But we're looking forward to hearing from Health Canada a little bit further."

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"Recall Concerns Parents, Toy Companies"

Wendy Schneider-Fisher is nervous about what toys to buy her children. "I'm less inclined to buy anything from China ," said Schneider-Fisher, of New Albany , Ohio , who was heading into a local Toys "R" Us Thursday. "And I'm upset our government doesn't do more to stop it."

Schneider-Fisher's comments reflect the quandary many American parents face after the world's largest toy company, Mattel Inc., recalled almost 1 million Chinese-made toys because they may contain lead.

As if fears over contaminated toothpaste, poisoned pet food and faulty tires weren't enough, the latest recall of Chinese-made products has anxious parents rummaging through toy chests to find tainted Big Birds and Dora the Explorer toys.

It also has stressed-out toy companies going through their inventory to see if their products are harmless. And it has China , again, insisting that its products are safe

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Aug 02, 2007 07:14 AM
ANNE D'INNOCENZIO
NATASHA T. METZLER
Associated Press

WASHINGTON–Toy-maker Fisher-Price is recalling 83 types of toys – including the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters – because their paint contains excessive amounts of lead.

The worldwide recall being announced Thursday involves 967,000 plastic preschool toys made by a Chinese vendor and sold in the United States between May and August. It is the latest in a wave of recalls that has heightened global concern about the safety of Chinese-made products.

The recall is the first for Fisher-Price Inc. and parent company Mattel Inc. involving lead paint. It is the largest for Mattel since 1998 when Fisher-Price had to yank about 10 million Power Wheels from toy stores.

"Recall has parents mulling toy boycott"

Mattel recalling China-made toys made with lead paint
Bill Mah, edmontonjournal.com
Published: Thursday, August 02, 2007

EDMONTON - If a recall on some Fisher-Price Dora the Explorer and Go Diego Go toys have parents mulling a boycott on Chinese-made playthings, you won't be buying your kids much, says a mother who went a year without buying anything made in China .

"That's the dilemma if you want toys for your kids," said Sara Bongiorni, author of A Year Without Made in China .

"The bottom line is that's where toys really come from."

Source: Advanced ID Corporation
Jun 28, 2007 09:30 ET

CALGARY, AB--(Marketwire - June 28, 2007) - Advanced ID Corporation (OTCBB: AIDO ) has received numerous inquiries regarding the recall announced Tuesday in the New York Times and USA Today regarding 450,000 tires made in China. The RFID tire tag solution provided by Advanced ID will not prevent the manufacture of potentially faulty tires, but the use of the Advanced ID tire tag could have decreased the severity of the recall by collecting and storing important historical data and properly identifying each tire. The scope of any quality problems encountered could be contained by knowing the tire's date of manufacture, lot size and other data stored either in the memory in the tire RFID tag or in a customer controlled database keyed into a specific tire ID number. The multiplicity of UPC barcodes found on new tires does not contain the required historical information that can pinpoint the manufacturing process used in a specific tire. The result is that thousands of tires must be considered suspect after a faulty tire is discovered when in fact, it is possible that a very small number of tires are affected.

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DAVID GEORGE-COSH
June 13, 2007

Still reeling after a tainted pet food scandal, Menu Foods Income Fund announced it has lost a major contract, causing investors to drive its stock down 25 per cent yesterday.

Menu Foods revealed that a "significant customer" that represented 11 per cent of last year's sales decided to end its contract to purchase cuts-and-gravy products with the company.

In a statement released after Monday's close, Menu Foods said the customer - identified by Cormark Securities as Procter & Gamble Co. - will continue to purchase solid canned food from the company.

The Mississauga-based company ended its tumultuous day with a loss of $1.04, closing at $3.05.

"Del Monte Pet Products Voluntarily Withdraws Specific Product Codes of Pet Treats and Wet Dog Food Products in the United States"

April 6, 2007—As a precautionary measure, Del Monte Pet Products is voluntarily recalling select product codes of its pet treat products sold under the Jerky Treats ® , Gravy Train ® Beef Sticks and Pounce Meaty Morsels ® brands as well as select dog snack and wet dog food products sold under private label brands. A complete list of affected brands and products is below.

No other Del Monte Pet Products treats, biscuits or wet dog food products are impacted by this recall, and no Del Monte dry cat food, dry dog food, wet cat food or pouched pet foods are subject to this voluntary recall.

The Company took this voluntary recall action immediately after learning from the FDA that wheat gluten supplied to Del Monte Pet Products from a specific manufacturing facility in China contained melamine. Melamine is a substance not approved for use in food. The FDA made this finding as part of its ongoing investigation into the recent pet food recall. Del Monte Pet Products has proactively engaged and fully cooperated with the FDA since the start of its investigation.