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• Peter Pan Peanut Butter Salmonella Recall Update

  Pete Strom | February 19, 2007 12:17 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  This Peter Pan peanut butter recall is much more serious than I originally thought. We have received a number of calls today from families from around the country. One person is in the hospital for salmonella poisoning and others are telling me of episodes of nausea, fever, diarrhea and abdominal cramps. I am advising people to go the doctor if they are still having salmonella symptoms. We are...

• ReNu with MoistureLoc Linked to Fusarium Keratitis

  Pete Strom | February 17, 2007 2:42 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Reports of fungal keratitis infections in users in South Carolina of the solution are surfacing in contact lens wearers who use ReNu with MoistureLoc. Fungal keratitis is a serious eye infection that can develop through the whole depth of the cornea. The infection can require prolonged drug therapy with antifungals such as natamycin, nystatin, and amphotericin B. Other antifungals that may be...

• Salmonella Peanut Butter Recall

  Pete Strom | February 17, 2007 1:49 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Make sure you look at the product code on the jar of peanut butter on your shelf. If it begins with "2111" take it back to the grocery store for a refund. Salmonella has been found in the Peter Pan brand. I read about this peanut butter recall earlier in the week and did not think much about it until I looked in our cabnet at home and a jar with"2111".DHEC urges people who have symptoms commonly...

• Worker Compensation reform...A case of insurance company Profits over injured workers?

  Pete Strom | February 17, 2007 5:28 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  I was proud to see this week that the leadership in the South Caroline Senate is standing up to the insurance industry. Workers Compensation insurance has gone out of site over the past few years and it has the small business community screaming for reform. Insurance companies are making millions off of South Carolina's workers' compensation program, Senate President Pro Temp Glenn McConnell...