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    By Linda Doell

    | 5:30PM 7/29/2011
    Keeping track of the latest product and food recalls can be a challenge for any consumer, so Consumer Ally has collected them all in one place for you to check each week. Here is this week's roundup: Fisher-Price recalls 210,800 Little People Builders' Load 'n Go Wagons in the United States...

    By Linda Doell

    | 4:00PM 7/25/2011
    Walmart recently warned its shoppers about papayas sold in its stores after the fresh fruit was possibly linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened 97 people in 23 states and is currently under investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Walmart posted the recall from...

    By Linda Doell

    | 11:30AM 7/22/2011
    Keeping track of the latest product and food recalls can be a challenge for any consumer, so Consumer Ally has collected them all in one place for you to check each week. Here is this week's roundup: Homelite Consumer Products Inc. recalled 41,200 pressure washer attachments sold exclusively...

    By Sheryl Nance-Nash

    | 9:00AM 7/16/2011
    Do you want your new prescription drugs to be made under last century's oversight? Like it or not, that's likely what you're getting -- or worse -- because increasingly, Americans' medicines are made overseas in place where the oversight isn't up to U.S. standards.

    By Linda Doell

    | 10:45AM 7/15/2011
    Keeping track of the latest product and food recalls can be a challenge for any consumer, so Consumer Ally has collected them all in one place for you to check each week. Here is this week's roundup: Posh Bakery recalled all of its Butter Mini Croissants and Chocolate Mini-Croissants sold...

    By Regina Lewis

    | 1:00PM 7/13/2011
    Last year, grocery sales were up a modest 1.8%, yet sales of organic items more than doubled that growth rate, up 4.4%. Clearly, we're shopping differently. But are we even sure what an "organic" or "all natural" label means? It's more complicated than you might think.

    By Linda Doell

    | 7:00AM 7/06/2011
    Evergreen Fresh Sprouts, which has been linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened 21 people in five states, recalled certain packages of its alfalfa sprouts and spicy sprouts on Friday because of the possibility the sprouts could be contaminated with salmonella. In a recall announced...

    By Linda Doell

    | 4:30PM 7/01/2011
    Keeping track of the latest product and food recalls can be a challenge for any consumer, so Consumer Ally has collected them all in one place for you to check each week. Here is this week's roundup: Hamilton Beach recalled 300,000 toasters because the heating elements can remain energized...

    By Linda Doell

    | 11:00AM 6/30/2011
    Consumer complaints of a foul, moldy odor has prompted McNeil Consumer Healthcare to recall almost 61,000 bottles of Tylenol Extra Strength Caplets in 225-count bottles, the company said. The musty smell has been linked to trace amounts of 2,4,6-tribromoanisole -- also known as TBA -- which is a...

    By Linda Doell

    | 12:00PM 6/29/2011
    State and federal authorities have linked a salmonella outbreak that has sickened 21 people in five states to alfalfa sprouts and spicy sprouts, said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As of Monday, the 21 people sickened with salmonella enteritidis included three that had to be...