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Chinese Toy Exec Commits Suicide After Recall
The head of a Chinese company that made a million of the lead-tainted toys recalled by Mattel last month hanged himself in his warehouse this weekend. Zhang Shuhong's suicide followed the announcement...
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Mattel Recalls 18M More Toys Made in China
Mattel today announced a second, much bigger recall of Chinese-made toys that may be hazardous: 18 million of them worldwide, and 9 million in the US. The recalled items include play sets containing...
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FBI Searches Home of Tylenol Killings Suspect
FBI agents are searching the former residence of a suspect in the deaths of seven people who took cyanide-laced Tylenol in 1982, the Boston Globe reports. The case has never been solved, and agents say...
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Bad Vitamin Killed Polo Horses: Team Captain
A tainted vitamin supplement killed the 21 horses that collapsed before a polo match in Florida last weekend, the captain of the Venezuelan team claims. He notes that five horses not given the drug are...
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75 Schoolkids Hospitalized After Drinking Tainted Water
The water coming out of drinking fountains in the new wing of a Queens, NY, elementary school was pink and tasted good, and now almost 75 kids who drank it have been hospitalized. Dozens of children...
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Families Say Others Have Died at Mexican Resorts
The US State Department is warning travelers to Mexico about "tainted or substandard alcohol" after reports of people blacking out and waking with injuries—or sometimes not waking at all. Since its...
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