The warning on a bottle from Asda, a large U.K. grocery chain, is “indicative of a policy by supermarkets and food manufacturers to liberally stamp warnings on products to avoid legal complications.” [Daily Mail]
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From the monthly archives:
February 2009
“An insurance company with a potential $25 million liability from a fatal 2007 Houston office fire announced [Jan. 21] that it will drop its legal argument” that it shouldn’t have to pay for smoke inhalation deaths because they supposedly resulted from “pollution”, a risk excluded under the policy, as opposed to the actual flames. [Houston Chronicle; earlier].
I was a guest this week on the 93rd podcast in Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood’s CraftSanity series, talking about the Consumer Product Improvement Safety Act. As readers know, the CPSC issued a one-year stay of enforcement of some of the law’s provisions on Friday; the interview was recorded two days before that, on Wednesday, so inevitably some of the issues we discuss are of less immediate urgency now (though kicking them down the road is not the same thing as solving them).
Also recorded on Wednesday, I did a (shorter) prerecorded interview on CPSIA as a guest on the National Association of Manufacturers’ weekly audio show “America’s Business”, hosted by Mike Hambrick. Same caveats apply.
