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Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday that it would recall nearly 417,000 high-end passenger cars and SUVs in the United States and Canada to fix steering problems.
The recalls of Toyota Avalon sedans and Lexus LX470 sport-utility vehicles pushes the number of vehicles Toyota has recalled over the past year globally to nearly 11 million, marring its reputation for quality. Get the full story »
2010 Nissan Cube
Nissan Motor Co. is recalling 51,100 Cube compacts in North America after U.S. safety regulators said a fuel leak could cause fire after a crash, the regulator and the automaker said Monday.
The chance that 2009 and 2010 Cubes could leak fuel if struck from the rear at 50 miles per hour led to the recall, documents from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration show. Get the full story »
The death of a 4-month-old girl has prompted the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Baby Matters LLC on Monday to issue a voluntary recall of approximately 30,000 Nap Nanny baby recliners. The CPSC is investigating a report that the infant, from Royal Oak, Mich., died in a Nap Nanny being used in a crib.
Toyota Motor Corp. has been subpoenaed by a U.S. federal grand jury for documents related to steering problems in its vehicles, the automaker said Tuesday. Toyota and its subsidiaries plan to cooperate with the investigation and are preparing a response, company spokesman Etienne Plas said Tuesday in an e-mailed statement. Get the full story »
From Bloomberg News | Toyota has come up with the repair for some 600,000 Sienna minivans recalled three months ago because the spare tire cable could corrode.
Models from 1998-2010 are included.
Apple Inc has called a surprise press conference for Friday to talk about the iPhone 4, as the company continues to deal with fallout from reported reception problems on its popular smartphone.
Apple spokesman Steve Dowling declined to provide further details, or to say whether the event will address the signal-strength problems that some people have reported having with the iPhone 4 when the device is held in a certain way. Get the full story »
The government said Wednesday it had not reached any conclusions about whether Toyota drivers may be to blame for their vehicles suddenly accelerating, a problem that has led to millions of recalled cars and trucks since last year.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a statement that its engineers were continuing to investigate the possible causes of sudden acceleration in Toyotas along with scientists and researchers with the National Academy of Scientists and NASA. Get the full story »
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled 82,000 Pottery barn cribs on the same day it has made strides to ban drop-side cribs.
The Department of Transportation has analyzed dozens of black boxes in Toyota vehicles involved in accidents blamed on unintended acceleration, finding the throttles were open and the brakes were not engaged, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
That suggests that drivers of the speeding cars were stepping on the accelerator rather than the brakes. The vehicles investigated came from a sample in which the drivers said they were braking but failed to stop the car before crashing, the newspaper said, citing unnamed sources familiar with the findings. Get the full story »
One of 19 styles of children's jewelry recalled. (CPSC)
Tween Brands Inc., owned by Dress Barn Inc., recalled some Chinese-made children’s metal jewelry on Tuesday, due to high levels of cadmium in them.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said the company decided to pull out about 137,000 metal necklaces, bracelets and earrings priced between $7 and $16 and sold at Justice, Limited Too and an online store.
Cadmium is toxic if ingested by children.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today said Baxter International Inc. needs to take several steps designed to follow through on a recall of its Colleague infusion pumps including providing customers with a “a refund, a replacement pump, or lease termination.” Get the full story »
The sweeping legislation that grew out of Toyota Motor Corp.’s sudden-acceleration crisis — heralded as the most important auto safety bill in a decade — has been scaled back significantly in the face of auto industry opposition.
The bill originally gave federal officials the power to levy unlimited fines against automakers for safety violations, which regulators said could have resulted in multibillion-dollar penalties. But the House version now caps fines at $200 million.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. says it is recalling eight production lots of its anti-clotting drug Coumadin because the amount of the active ingredient in the drug could change. Get the full story »
From the Wall Street Journal | Chrysler is recalling 22,118 2010 Dodge Nitro, Dodge Ram, Jeep Liberty and Jeep Wrangler trucks and SUVs over a potential brake defect.
And Ford is recalling 33,728 2010 Transit Connect vans to replace pushpins holding up the cabin headliners.
Johnson & Johnson is expanding a recall of over-the-counter drugs including Tylenol and Motrin IB because of a musty or moldy smell.
The McNeil Consumer Healthcare business says it is recalling 21 lots of over-the-counter drugs sold in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Fiji, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica. Get the full story »
