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October 22, 2007

FREE LEGAL ADVICE IN TEXAS: Be among the first to see it on the Adler network.

Filed under: Uncategorized — Jodie Sinclair @ 9:29 pm

The Adler NetworkWatch Jim Adler, the Texas Hammer and his team of attorneys in news stories on the Adler Network (www.jimadler.com) that update you on defective products, consumer recalls, preventing accidents – anything and everything that’s in the news about issues that impact you and your family. Worried about defective products? Scared of toy recalls? Heard about peanut butter poisoning people? Wondered what Jim Adler and his lawyers are really like? Stories on The Adler Network will bring you up to date on those and a host of other issues. How can I find the Adler Network? Look for an e-mail alert when it goes live later this month. Feedback is fun: e-mail us at jsinclair@jsapc.com with your comments and/or suggestions for stories you’d like to see on The Adler Network.

October 20, 2007

LEAD PAINT RECALLS:

Filed under: Uncategorized — Jodie Sinclair @ 7:21 pm

Watch out if your baby wants a Barbie! Some Barbie dolls were included in the recent massive toy recalls because they were contaminated with lead paint. Find a comprehensive list of recalled toys at www.safekidsgreaterhouston.org. Jim Adler & Associates has joined Safe Kids Greater Houston and Safe Kids San Antonio to help you protect your kids.Both Safe Kids coalitions are members of Safe Kids Worldwide in Washington D.C., the only global network of organizations working to prevent childhood injury, a leading killer of children 14 and under. Why is lead paint so dangerous for kids? According to www.kidshealth.org, small growing bodies are more susceptible to absorbing lead. Once it’s in the system, it travels throughout the body and harms tissues wherever it ends up. Lead causes a variety of health problems: decreased bone and muscle growth, poor muscle coordination, damage to the nervous system, kidneys and hearing, developmental delay and seizures and unconsciousness.

October 17, 2007

THEY DIDN’T COME FROM OUTER SPACE: But we’re still under attack

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , — Jodie Sinclair @ 6:51 pm

 

 

Foods contaminated by salmonella enterica and escherichia coli have been cropping up across the United States with little warning. Spinach, lettuce, peanut butter, hamburger meat and chicken potpies are among the foods that have been affected by these potentially dangerous bacteria. How do they get into our foods? Salmonella enterica, a nasty little rod-shaped bacterium comes from animal waste and escherichia coli, another offender from the same source, get into slaughter houses and food processing plants and from there, into our food. How do you protect yourself? The Centers for Disease Control web site www.cdc.gov has plenty of information about both bugs that will help you ward them off. If you end up with a serious medical problem from one or the other, you will need evidence to sue: that means a trip to the doctor with a specimen for analysis. Salmonella causes two diseases: typhoid and acute gastroenteritis (food poisoning with sometimes deadly consequences). E coli causes bloody diarrhea and occasionally, kidney failure.

 

 

 

October 15, 2007

CHILD SAFETY ALERT:

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , — Jodie Sinclair @ 7:02 pm

Now the government is warning parents about cold medicines for kids. This month, a number of manufacturers pulled cold remedies for toddlers off store shelves due to “rare instances of misuse” that can lead to accidental overdoses. The FDA is reviewing the safety of these medicines after reports that 900 children overdosed on the products in 2004. The FDA found 54 child fatalities from over- the-counter decongestant medicines in a study it conducted. It cited 69 reports of deaths connected with antihistamines used to treat runny noses.

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