CAFFEINE HEADLINES some alarming

​DO YOU RECALL
Monday . December 13, 2021
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yesterday . 1900-2000
It took years of advocacy and outrage, along with Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, an exposé of conditions in the Chicago stockyards to spur Congress into passing the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 – leading to the eventual creation of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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The first major national food recall occurred in 1920, when improperly canned olives compelled the government to pull the product due to an outbreak of botulism.

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Thanksgiving 1959. The FDA issued an advisory and seized cranberries laced with a potentially cancer-causing weed killer ruining many a housewife's holiday as well as Ocean Spray's.

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Fall 1982. Seven people in the greater Chicago area died after consuming cyanide-laced Extra-Strength Tylenol. Parent company Johnson & Johnson spent upwards of $100 million recalling 31 million bottles of the painkiller and relaunching the Tylenol brand putting customer safety above profit--wait for it (pause)... keep reading.

today . 2000-2021
Outbreaks in 2020 included a diversity of products ranging from deli meats to onions and peaches. Forty percent of the outbreaks were E. coli related, thirty percent were Salmonella related and twenty percent were Listeria related.

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September 2004
A study on the arthritis drug Vioxx found low doses increased the risk of heart disease by about 50% and higher doses by 358%. The study, blocked in the US but published in England, soon forced the pharmaceutical company Merck to withdrew Vioxx from the market even though the FDA never requested a recall. Later Senate testimony by Dr. David Graham, associate director for science and medicine in the FDA's Office of Drug Safety, stated as many as 55,000 patients may have died as a result of taking Vioxx.

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January 2020
Particulate matter discovered in multiple lots of oxycodone hydrochloride oral solution prompted Genus Lifesciences Inc. to voluntarily recall more than two dozen lots of the pain medication. Side Note: Purdue Pharma aka the Sacklers, who made billions from OxyContin won immunity from Opioid lawsuits by filing bankruptcy.

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October 2021
Wait for it (pause)... Johnson & Johnson remains one of the wealthiest corporations in the world, with more than $25 billion in cash reserves after using a fluke Texas state law to spin off a new company called LTL. J&J dumped all of its asbestos-related liabilities into the new firm – including roughly 38,000 lawsuits claiming that its talc baby powder was contaminated with cancer-causing asbestos.

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2020-2021
Lest we forget – political recalls.

tomorrow . January 2022 
Recall Predictions include –
• Consumer Products: ecommerce, imports, infant products, magnets and button batteries
• Motor Vehicles: automation features in electric vehicles
• Boats: manufacturer installed equipment and boating safety issues
• Food: with the new Smarter Food Safety Blueprint, recalls are currently down. However, as workforce challenges continue the Blueprint Culture will make it critical for companies to embrace new technologies and evolve as the industry innovates.
•Medicine: the medical device industry will need to enhance their own internal processes as recalls are a hot topic. Pharmaceutical companies will need to ensure the safety of its products, especially if there's a recall months after an inspection that identified violations (see September 2004).
• Cosmetics: more familiar brand issues likely as Johnson & Johnson also pulled Neutrogena and Aveeno sunscreens off the shelf this year.
• Environmental Products: emphasis on more protective risk assessment assumptions (think pesticide drift) especially on vulnerable subpopulations (think babies, kids and pregnant moms).

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Data: Britannica. Aon. recalls.gov. LEXOLOGY.