Author: Melinda Manato

ConAgra Foods (NYSE:CAG) expanded its voluntary recall of P.F. Chang’s Home Menu Brand products due to potential foreign matter contamination. The company initially recalled 3,806 pounds of frozen meals on July 7. If you recently bought P.F. Chang’s frozen chicken and beef entrée items, double-check if it is included in the expanded recall. ConAgra is now recalling 195,000 pounds of frozen meals, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). ConAgra initially discovered the food safety problem when an employee observed metal fragments while dispensing…

More than 500,000 units of self-balancing scooters popularly known as hoverboards have been recalled due to fire hazard, according to the Consumer Product safety Commission (CPSC). According to the CPSC, ten companies including Digital Gadgets LLC, Hoverboard LLC, Hype Wireless, Keenford, PTX Performance Products USA, Swagway LLC, Yuka Clothing, Boscov’s and Overstock.com are recalling certain brands of hoverboards. After months of excellent, round-the-clock work by our engineers, investigators and compliance officers, CPSC has secured the recall of more than a half million hoverboards by 10 different companies. This is a…

General Mills expanded its flour recall under the brands Gold Medal, Wondra, and Signature Kitchens to include those produced in earlier in the fall as more people reported illness linked to E. coli. According to the company, “a newly-reported illness appears to have stemmed from the consumption of dough or batter linked to flour produced last fall.” The latest report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicated four more people have been infected with Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC O121) in four states including Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma and…