The State Department of Health is recommending that all state residents should check their shelves for any three of the products that were involved in a national food recall because three of the products are known to have been sold in the State of Washington.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned this week that people should immediately throw away more than 90 different products, from chili sauce to corned beef hash to dog food, produced at a Castleberry’s Food plant linked to a botulism outbreak. The plant, in Georgia, has been temporarily closed.

If you or a family member has been injured in the state of Washington, please contact the Product Liability Lawyers at Phillips and Webster, PLLC. With easy accessible offices in the Seattle, Washington; Bellevue, Washington and Woodinville, Washington areas.

Last week the Congressional investigators were to tell a House subcommittee about the Food & Drug Administration’s ability to make sure that safety of the U.S. food supply is “minimal” and the agency plans to renovate its inspection regime could make a bad situation worse.

FDA officials, under fire for the recent string of high-profile food scares involving both domestic and imported foods, have been asked to appear before a House Energy and Commerce investigations subcommittee hearing to discuss the agency’s food inspections.

Committee staff reviewed the system extensively and found that a shrinking inspection staff examines less than 1% of all imported food. A typical inspector in the FDA’s San Francisco office examines nearly 1,000 food entries a day — roughly one every 30 seconds, the committee report found. The agency, it says, allows importers to take possession of their high-risk goods and arrange for testing by a private laboratory. Before melamine-contaminated pet food killed and sickened thousands of pets, the FDA had never inspected those ingredients from China.

If you or a family member has been injured in the state of Washington, please contact the Product Liability Lawyers at Phillips and Webster, PLLC. With easy accessible offices in the Seattle, Washington; Bellevue, Washington and Woodinville, Washington areas.

James Flynn a resident of Gwinnett County, GA. had bought a spray can of grout sealer from a Home Depot that was located in his neighborhood, in July of 2005, the last think that he could imagine is that this purchase would land him in the hospital and cost him the use of a lung.

Flynn is now one of more than 160 people across the country who have brought 31 product liability suits against The Home Depot and five companies tied to the manufacture and distribution of Stand ‘N Seal, claiming that using the product permanently damaged their health.

If you or a family member has been injured in the state of Washington, please contact the Product Liability Lawyers at Phillips and Webster, PLLC. With easy accessible offices in the Seattle, Washington; Bellevue, Washington and Woodinville, Washington areas.

The U.S. House of Representatives has voted in favor of giving the health officials more resources to do their job after the recent drug-safety scandals which includes the 2004 Vioxx withdrawal.

The Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration an additional $400 million in fees collected from the drug industry. The money is earmarked for drug safety oversight over the next five years, including increased “postmarketing” surveillance of drugs already on the market.

If you or a family member has been injured in the state of Washington, please contact the Product Liability Lawyers at Phillips and Webster, PLLC. With easy accessible offices in the Seattle, Washington; Bellevue, Washington and Woodinville, Washington areas.

On Monday the government has warned that there are 90 different products from chili sauce to corned beef hash to dog food that were produced at a plant that is linked to a botulism outbreak, they are warning that everyone should immediatly throw away any of these manufactured goods.

Castleberry’s Food temporarily closed the plant.

“You’re talking tens of millions of cans that may have been involved,” said Robert Brackett, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.

The company has hired an outside firm to visit more than 8,500 retailers around the country in an effort to quickly get recalled products off store shelves.

If you or a family member has been injured in the state of Washington, please contact the Product Liability Lawyers at Phillips and Webster, PLLC. With easy accessable offices in the Seattle, Washington; Bellevue, Washington and Woodinville, Washington areas.