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Torchiere Lamps have been recalled By L G Sourcing Due to Fire Hazard; Lamps Sold Exclusively At Lowe’s Stores according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commissionon. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
The name of the product recalled is Incandescent Torchiere Lamps

About 90,000 have been recalled.

Importer: L G Sourcing, Inc., of North Wilkesboro, N.C.

Manufacturer: Field Smart Lighting Co. Ltd., of China

Hazard: A short circuit in the lamps’ wiring can pose a fire hazard to consumers.

The recalled lamp has a black steel frame and a bowl-shaped light fixture. The item number 179878 is printed on the packaging and the bottom of the base of the lamp. Only lamps sold between March 2005 and October 2007 with UL listing number E246506 are included in the recall.

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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently announced  that Stamina Products of Springfield Mo. has agreed to pay the government a $105,000 civil penalty because failed to report in a timely manner injuries from defective mini-trampolines. In April 2006, CPSC and Stamina Products announced the recall of about 668,000 mini-trampolines.

Between April 2002 and June 2005, Stamina Products received eight reports from consumers complaining that the trampoline sprang back during the folding/unfolding process causing facial lacerations that required stitches, broken teeth, bruises, headaches, neck pain, broken facial bones, loss of mouth sensation, and blurred vision. 

 CPSC was finally informed of the incidents in July 2005.

Federal law requires firms to report to CPSC within 24 hours after obtaining information that a product contains a defect which could create a substantial product hazard, or creates an unreasonable risk of serious injury or death.

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Los Angeles-based consumer attorney, William A. "Bill" Daniels hosts http://billdanielsblog.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/07/so-great-to-see.html and quotes an interesting article that points out the obvious. Who do we have to safeguard our rights against unreasonable dangerous products? Government bureaucrats? Ultimately, we must rely upon the free enterprise system supported by our open courts. As long as manufacturers and promoters of products for us and our families know that plaintiffs’ attorneys are willing to aggressively put their representations of safety to the test, we will have a chance for reasonable product safety research and development. The following is an excerpt from the article on Daniel’s site. I recommend that you click on his blog to read the rest.

By Jeffrey Pfeffer, Business 2.0 Magazine columnist
July 9 2007: 6:21 AM EDT
(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- Decades after Tylenol bottles were tampered with and Ford Pintos exploded, you'd think that product-safety panics would be nearing extinction.
No such luck. Consider just the past few months: Pet food laced with poison killed more than a dozen dogs and cats. Toothpaste shipped from China to Latin America turned out to be tainted with a potentially fatal thickening agent. And the FDA issued yet another recall for defective defibrillators, bringing the total number of heart devices that need to be replaced to nearly 200,000.
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