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Dollar Tree Recalling Halloween Lanterns Due to Fire Hazard

Safety Warning: The AP (10/28) reported, “Discount store operator Dollar Tree Stores Inc. is voluntarily recalling some battery-run pumpkin, ghost and skull Halloween lanterns because the bulbs in them may overheat, creating potential fire and burn hazards.” Dollar Tree “aid Thursday that the recall includes about 682,000 lanterns sold for about $1 each in Dollar … Read more

Heparin Recall

  The Los Angeles Times (10/27, Zajac) “Booster Shots” blog reported, “B. Braun Medical Inc., of Irvine on Wednesday announced a recall of seven lots of the anticoagulant heparin because of concerns they may be contaminated with trace amounts of oversulfated chondroitin sulfate, or OSCS, the same substance implicated in the 2008 heparin crisis that … Read more

Brain cancer rate double the average at Rohm & Haas

  You may have read about the extraordinarily high number of employees who died of brain cancer at a former Rohm & Haas research facility in the Philadelphia Inquirer last week. Now, Philadelphia Magazine has a fairly detailed history by Richard Rhys of the center and the situation.