Ford Recalls Mustang Mach-E for Windshield and Glass Roof Dangers

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Ford continues to face struggles with its first mass-produced electric vehicle, the Mustang Mach-E. After Ford recalled dozens of the first Mach-Es earlier this year for loose subframe bolts, now it’s saying the windshield and glass panoramic roof may become loose, leak, or even fly off while you’re driving. And that’s not good.

Unfortunately, nearly all 18,000 models of the Mustang Mach-E are at risk and are being recalled in the US. Ford also states that only around 13,000 of them run the increased risk of the windshield or roof becoming completely detached. According to Electrek, last week, the company issued a similar recall on the SUV for 5,000 models in Canada.

To make matters worse, Ford confirmed the problem to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) earlier this month but has yet to pinpoint the problem in production.

That said, even though they don’t know the cause of the problem, Ford will start providing owners with recall instructions in late October. That should give them enough time to sort through the issue, find a fix, and replace defective windshields and glass sunroofs across the entire Mustang Mach-E line.

Most likely, owners will be able to take vehicles in for an inspection, and if necessary, have the items reinstalled with more automotive-grade adhesive or new glass panels. We’ll keep an eye on the situation and report back if we learn more.

via The Verge

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Johnson & Johnson recalling Neutrogena, Aveeno sunscreens due to benzene traces

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Nearly 8.5 million pounds of Tyson chicken recalled due to Listeria concerns

The possibly contaminated chicken products were distributed across the United States to both retailers and facilities like hospitals, nursing homes, and schools, the USDA said in the press release.

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Backyard Scientist makes toys dangerous

Toys today are super boring. We have spoken on this point before. Backyard Scientist decided to make some toys fun.

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Biden’s FDA looks to tackle heavy metals in baby food

The Biden administration said Friday it plans to clamp down on toxic heavy metals commonly found in baby food.

The move comes after a House Oversight subcommittee last month released a report finding that major baby food companies sold products that their own internal testing showed contained arsenic, lead and cadmium at levels far higher than what most health experts consider safe for infants. The findings panicked parents already under considerable stress during the pandemic.

What’s new: The Food and Drug Administration plans to soon begin the lengthy process of setting more standards for heavy metals in baby foods.

In the interim, the agency told baby food makers they are expected to actively reduce heavy metal levels in their products as part of their internal food safety controls. The maneuver leverages a sweeping Obama-era food safety law that’s been on the books since 2011.

“It’s a positive but limited step,” said Tom Neltner, chemicals policy director at the Environmental Defense Fund, lamenting the agency didn’t set any deadlines for taking action.

How we got here: The FDA has been criticized for being extremely slow to act on reducing heavy metals exposure for infants and young children. The agency launched a working group to look into toxic elements across the food supply in 2017 after an EPA study found that food was a surprisingly significant source of lead exposure in children, as POLITICO reported this week.

It had taken the agency several years to set voluntary standards for how much inorganic arsenic could be in infant rice cereal — standards that public health advocates argue are largely unenforced and far too lax. Another voluntary standard for inorganic arsenic in apple juice also took years to develop, and that draft guidance released in 2013 still hasn’t been finalized.

The U.S. does not otherwise have any heavy metals standards for baby food.

A ‘sea change’: The House Oversight subcommittee’s report last month put major pressure on FDA to take action.

“We presented evidence of a pervasive problem of toxic heavy metals in baby foods, and when we asked the Biden administration’s FDA for help in addressing it, they were very concerned and responsive,” said Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, chair of the House Oversight subcommittee that released the landmark report last month.

“This represents a sea change at FDA,” the Illinois Democrat added.

The agency said Friday working on this issue is now a high priority.

“Research has shown that reducing exposure to toxic elements is important to minimizing any potential long-term effects on the developing brains of infants and children,” FDA said in a statement. “As such, this issue is among FDA’s highest priorities and we are actively working to make progress on identifying and implementing impactful solutions to make foods commonly consumed by infants and young children safer.”

In the “near term,” FDA said it would look at developing new standards, ramp up enforcement efforts, and issue guidance to help food companies lower their levels. The agency also plans to host a meeting on the issue.

Health advocates were hoping the agency would commit to action within a more specific timeframe.

“I’m disappointed that there is no timeline for action,” said Netlner, of EDF. “Like all of us, deadlines help ensure decisions are made in a timely manner.”

What should the limits be: Krishnamoorthi, who took office in 2017, had recently shared a bill with FDA that aimed to set strict limits for heavy metals. The effort has the backing of Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) as well as Rep. Tony Cárdenas (D-Calif.).

The standards in discussion by lawmakers were 10 parts per billion for inorganic arsenic, 5 parts per billion for cadmium and lead and 2 parts per billion for mercury across baby food products, according to a source familiar with the discussions.

A significant share of baby food on the market today would not meet these proposed standards. It is not uncommon for rice puff snacks, for example, to contain well above 100 parts per billion of inorganic arsenic.

It would be unusual for Congress to set such specific food safety standards in statute. Health advocates have historically preferred letting public health agencies set their own limits. But lawmakers appear ready to act if the agency doesn’t move on this.

Advice to parents: FDA said it continues to recommend parents and caregivers feed children a varied diet, in consultation with their pediatrician.

“The FDA does not advise parents and caregivers to throw out their supply of packaged baby foods or to stop feeding their babies and children certain foods altogether,” the agency said.

FDA does not recommend eliminating food groups over concerns about heavy metal exposure.

Other health groups continue to recommend avoiding or limiting rice products fed to infants and young children, including snacks like rice puffs. Parents can also cut back on juice, which can contain arsenic and lead. Serving a variety of vegetables is recommended, because some root vegetables like sweet potatoes and carrots can contain higher levels of lead and cadmium.

The agency also strongly warned parents against making their own infant formula “as this is extremely unlikely to reduce exposure to toxic elements and has resulted in infants suffering life-threatening consequences, including severe nutritional deficiencies and microbial foodborne illness.”

What’s next: It’s not clear what standards FDA will ultimately set. In the meantime, companies are expected to get to work reducing contaminants in their ingredients.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/05/biden-fda-baby-food-metal-473883
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Vehicle recalls cluster because OEMs wait for rivals to move first

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Many of us are familiar with the concept of the Friday night news dump, the term given to those occasions when, for example, an embattled politician announces a policy they know will be unpopular. Invariably, it happens late on a Friday afternoon, maximizing the chances that the news gets lost in the churn and forgotten by Monday. As it turns out, there’s a similar phenomenon in the auto industry: recall clustering.

For example, in August 2017, Ford issued a recall for leaky fuel tank valves, which was quickly followed by a fuel tank recall from Honda and an oil hose recall issued by Chrysler.

It’s not a new thing, either, according to new research published in Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. The researchers looked at 48 years of data, from 1966 to 2013, during which time they identified 3,117 vehicle recalls.

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84% of Mexican hand sanitizers toxic or flawed; FDA issues drastic alert

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The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday issued a first-of-its-kind alert to try to block the import of toxic hand sanitizers from Mexico, which have been flooding the market amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Last June, the regulatory agency began issuing alerts and warnings for consumers about dangerous and counterfeit hand sanitizers, many of which were made in Mexico. Since then, the FDA has issued alerts on 226 products. An FDA survey conducted between April and December found that 84 percent of products tested from Mexico were not in compliance with FDA regulations.

Many of the concerning products are labeled as containing safe alcohols but actually contained methanol, an extremely poisonous form of alcohol associated with incorrectly distilled liquors that can cause blindness and even death. The FDA discovered some other products containing another toxic ingredient, 1-propanol, while others simply contained insufficient amounts of safe alcohols for sanitation. (Safe alcohols for hand sanitizers include ethanol, aka ethyl alcohol, at concentrations above 60 percent or isopropyl alcohol at concentrations above 70 percent).

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Over 760,000 pounds of Hot Pockets recalled

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Tesla’s touchscreen trouble: NHTSA asks for recall of Models S and X

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In November, we learned that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration had opened an engineering analysis into a potential defect with Tesla’s popular Models S and X battery electric vehicles. On Wednesday, the other shoe dropped, when NHTSA informed the American automaker that it has to recall 158,000 vehicles to fix defective touchscreens.

The problem concerns a component in the vehicles’ infotainment systems, called the Media Control Unit. Buried within the MCU is an 8GB eMMC NAND flash memory chip, which can only be written to a finite number of times. Once this number of read/write cycles is reached—something that takes between three and four years depending on how much the car is driven—the touchscreen dies. And unfortunately, that’s a real problem in a car where the touchscreen is the way almost all the controls are accessed.

Not being able to browse the Internet in your car or stream a podcast is obviously an inconvenience, especially in an high-end vehicle. But NHTSA is more concerned about the fact that if the touchscreen dies, functions like the backup camera and window defogging are lost, too, as are audible alerts for other onboard safety systems.

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