Candy and Candy-like Tablet Recalled | DC Metro Area Medical Malpractice Law Blog

Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding member and senior attorney

With Halloween approaching, it is appropriate to consider which candies children should and should not eat.  CQ HealthBeat (10/26) reports, “The Food and Drug Administration on Monday put out a warning that Hyland’s Teething Tablets may pose a risk to children and the company has agreed to a voluntary recall. The agency also passed along recall information about two candy products in this week before Halloween.” Notably, the “teething relief product, manufactured by the Standard Homeopathic Company, contains a small amount of belladonna, a substance that can cause serious harm at larger doses.”

In addition, “Nestlé USA’s Confections & Snacks Division has voluntarily recalled its Raisinets Fun Size Bags, which the company says may contain peanuts even though there is nothing on the label to indicate that” peanuts are included in the snacks.  Also, “Colombina, S.A., which manufacturers Mega Pops brand lollipops, is recalling specific lots of the candy” since “certain packages may contain ‘traces of foreign particles.’”

Enjoy Halloween, but please put safety first.

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Mr. Zambri is a Board-Certified Civil Trial Attorney and Past-President of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. He has been acknowledged by Washingtonian magazine as a “Big Gun” and among the “top 1%” of all of the more than 80,000 lawyers in the Washington metropolitan area. The magazine also acknowledged him as “one of Washington’s best–most honest and effective lawyers” who specializes in medical malpractice matters, product liability claims, and serious automobile accident claims. Mr. Zambri was recently (2011 edition) acknowledged as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” by Best Lawyers and has also been repeatedly named a “Super Lawyer” by Law and Politics magazine (2010)–national publications that honor the top lawyers in the country.

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