From pesticides to consumer products, manufacturers are known to go to great lengths to limit and control what the public knows about the safety of their products. Recent incidents in Europe and the United States underscore some of the ways corporations wield their power at the expense of consumer safety.
A Heavy Corporate Hand Suppressing Product Safety Information
In Europe, EU...
A long-awaited federal ban on products containing asbestos by the U.S. will save countless lives of workers, consumers and their families, while placing the U.S. in line with most other industrial countries that have already banned the material, attorneys at Waters Kraus Paul & Siegel said Tuesday.
The March 18 order by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) marks the first...
As private equity firms increasingly pour investment money into home health, nursing homes, mental health centers, and hospices, federal regulators are taking notice. As a result, these profit-driven organizations are increasingly being held responsible for violating statutes like the False Claims Act, as well as SEC regulations.
About 30% to 50% of home health and hospice transactions...
Regulators and coal mining companies failed to prevent the rise of advanced black lung disease.
An investigation identified 2,000 cases of black lung disease, the biggest cluster of the disease ever reported, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Conducted by NPR and the PBS program Frontline, the study revealed the extent of a grave epidemic...
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