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Recalls

Dangerous toy
Watch out for dangerous toy with smoking, igniting
Sanrio recalls defect Halo Kitty Christmas tree (2004/11/29)

Red three-diamond brand
What comes next to track bus and apartment house?
Mitsubishi Electric announced defect of damaging plate of automatic ice manufacture machine (2004/11/25)

Recalls
Mitsubishi Fuso exported vehicles that had been decided recalling in Japan to about 70 countries
Defect information from foreign countries reached 15 (2004/11/19)

Steam iron of DBK checked, improved free of charge
Japan General Appliance said commodity falls easily (2004/11/19)

Recalls
Defect turned out brake fitting made of National Bicycle
Fear of injury by fall (2004/11/18)

JC-Press Perspective
Concealment of defect, accident happens frequently
Enterprises give priority to profits more than payment of voluntary recall cost (2004/11/11)

Safety Alerts
Bicycle brake doesn't work
Shimano voluntarily recalled defective brake cable (2004/11/10)

Aftereffect of Mitsubishi Motors ?
Car "Recall investigator room" started
Affiliated association of Transport Ministry verifies defect by analyzing car accident (2004/11/05)

Product Recall
Danger of ignition is exposed in popular kitchen garbage processor
Hitachi home and life solution company voluntarily recalls about 20,000 (2004/11/05)


Health, Environment
Health
Antidepressant drug is rather dangerous without effect
Medwatcher Japan put it in question (2004/11/24)

Health
Fluorine mouth rinsing spreading to children is dangerous
Teachers, people related to hygiene raised an opposite voice (2004/11/24)

Safety Alerts
No approval similar medicine element in Viagra detected from personal import tablet "Levitra@Generic"
Health Ministry roused watching out to consumers (2004/11/08)

Foods Safety, Environmental Pollution
93 percent of dioxin intake route is foods
"Food Safety Citizens' Watch" is scheduled to hold symposium to warn of the danger on November 13 (2004/11/04)

Safety Alerts
Antibiotic detected from China royal jelly
Health Ministry issued administrative inspection instruction to importers (2004/11/04)

Food Safety

Foods Safety
It is necessary to heat pork liver enough
Health Ministry is calling for E type hepatitis prevention (2004/11/30)

BSE
Health, Agriculture Ministries were criticized to change arbitrary decision attitude of BSE problem
Consumer group demands from Food Safety Commission concerning negotiations to resume U.S. beef imports (2004/11/27)

Food Safety
Meeting of Carcinogen included in potato chips and french fries be held
Ministry of Agriculture recruits citizens, consumer groups to take part in (2004/11/27)

Food Safety
Antibacterial agents this time detected from cultivation fish from South Korea
Health Ministry executed inspection instruction (2004/11/22)

BSE
Japan imported beef from US prohibited importing by BSE infection
It mixes with container that loads pork (2004/11/19)

Food Safety
Residual pesticide detected from vegetable from South Korea again
It is Chlorpyrifos this time (2004/11/17)

Safety Alerts, Recalls
Viagra similar element detected from soft drink
Osaka Prefecture ordered sales stopping, compulsory market withdrawall (2004/11/10)

BSE
BSE death cow's anomalous prion detected from peripheral nerve tissue, suprarenal gland
First time from non-Specified Risk Material, or SRM (2004/11/09)

Food false labeling
Liar display in tradition food "Sanuki noodle"
Wheat from Australia is used while expressing Kagawa Prefecture special production (2004/11/09)

Food Safety
Residual pesticide exceeding standard from shallot from South Korea detected
Health Ministry executed inspection instruction (2004/11/08)


Watch Out !
Watch Out!
Tokyo verifies safety of bicycle
It raises accident information from consumer (2004/11/25)

Safety Alerts
One person per ten user of contact lens suffer from ophthalmopathy
Fear of blindness when you are leaving it (2004/11/17)

Warning 21: Interstice of safety and danger (No.367)
Disposable body warmer for shoes
A consumer excises right foot ahead in low temperature burn: Watching out for getting a high temperature if you use it by purposes other than shoes (2004/11/17)

Voice of Consumer
Malignant enterprise preying on tax
Tokyo prepares indictment of Mitsui & Co., Ltd.
False data case of exhaust gas removal device (2004/11/30)

Malignant enterprise preying on tax
Same as crime of Snow Brand Food
Consumer group criticizes about counterfeit of exhaust gas purifier data by Mitsui & Co (2004/11/29)

Consumers' Voices
Nationwide consumer general meeting in which 450 people participated from various places started
The meeting decides action policy to prevent consumer damage (2004/11/19)

Desire for environment friendly energy-saving products purchase be strong in consumers
Consumer questionnaire by Kawasaki City (2004/11/11)

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