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Product Liability

www.Recalls.gov  (Government sponsored portal site for all product recalls)
Consumer Product Safety Commission Press Releases and Recalls Page  (also contains instructions for subscribing to their email newsletter for recalls)
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - NHTSA - Auto Recalls  (searchable database on automobile recalls)
Consumer Reports Recalls Page
Food and Drug Administration Homepage
Food and Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health  (includes a search engine for medical devices)
Food and Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health - Search Engine for Registered Devices
Fen Phen Litigation (links to the FDA and medical sites giving rise to this latest mass tort litigation)
Rezulin Monitor - Lawyers' Weekly (provides current status of Rezulin litigation across the nation)
Sulzer Defective Hip Implant Claims
Sulzer Information Page (resources on Sulzer hip implant claims by Resch Engineering)
Implants-Medical Devices  (article dealing with legal aspects of medical devices for implantation)
MAUDE, Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience Database  (Searchable database of reports of adverse events involving medical devices. Database consists of all voluntary reports since June, 1993, user facility reports since 1991, distributor reports since 1993, and manufacturer reports since August, 1996)
Consumer Product Safety Commission Homepage
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers (comprehensive listing, with search engine, of manufacturers...handy tool for product liability litigators)
Vermont Safety Information Resources, Inc., SIRI  (Articles and resources, including Material Safety Data Sheets, MSDS, on safety issues)
Mesopages.Com  (information on asbestos, pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma, diagnosis, treatment and mesothelioma legal issues including lawsuits and hiring an attorney)
Minnesota Tobacco Trial Transcript
Tobacco Industry Documents - Center for Disease Control  (massive, searchable archive of documents produced during the tobacco litigation)
Tobacco Documents Released by the U.S. House of Representatives
Tobacco Litigation Update, Law Journal Extra
The Products Liability Case  (this is a .pdf file that will load in your browser if you have the Adobe reader installed as a plug-in)
Vaccine Information and Awareness  (vaccine resources)
National Vaccine Information Center
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, Department of Health and Human Services
Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, Food and Drug Administration
Search VAERS Database, Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
The Vaccine Page - Vaccine News & Database
Neurotoxic Effects of Postnatal Thimerosal - Nature.com  (recent study supporting claims that Thimerosal in childhood vaccines contributes to autism)
Centers for Disease Control, Department of Health and Human Services
NIOSH Alert: Preventing Allergic Reactions to Natural Rubber Latex in the Workplace
OSHA Technical Information Bulletin - Potential for Allergy to Natural Rubber Latex Gloves and Other Natural Rubber Products.
Latex Allergy Links  (portal to large number of latex allergy sites on the Web)
Latex Allergy
The Chemical Industry Archives  (from the Environmental Working Group... 37,0000 searchable pages of internal company documents discovered during litigation)
Trade Secrets - PBS Show on Chemical Industry
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry  (Government Site, includes search engine for HazDat Database)
TSCATS - Toxic Substances Control Act Test Submissions Database  (searchable collection of unpublished technical reports on over 8,000 chemicals submitted by industries to the Environmental Protection Agency since 1985)
Cornell, Material Safety Data Sheets  (database of 250,000 MSDS, derived from US Dept of Defense and Cornell records)
Oxford University - Material Safety Data Sheets, Chemical and Other Safety Information
Vermont Safety Information Resources - MSDS Collection
MSDS Provider - Manufacturer-Direct Material Safety Data Sheets  (search by manufacturer)
Material Safety Data Sheets  (links to databases of msds, chemicals, drugs and pesticides)

ToxNet - Toxicology Data Network - National Library of Medicine  (a cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas)
Extoxnet, The Extension Toxicology Network  (variety of information about pesticides, pesticide informaArticle: Unraveling the Mystery of the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)tion profiles, resources for toxicology information, and technical information)
ToxLaw.Com  (all things related to the law of toxic torts...chatboards, resources, etc.)