For example, a product recall application allows a person to easily determine if a specific product has been recalled.
Because it requires the seller to have the imagination, creativity, and work rate to, for example, know what a product recall means day-to-day to a pharmaceutical company.
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Almost three months after a hacking incident that compromised sensitive data used in its authentication tokens, security firm RSA has resorted to a last-ditch fix: a product recall.
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Initially, Wegmans called customers only on their landlines for a Class 1 recall for a national product or a store brand with a recall level of Class 1 or 2 (causing temporary illness).
Within days, once it had been established that tainted Tylenol caused the deaths, Burke issued a massive product recall of more than 31 million bottles, and decided not to put the product back on the shelves until new, tamper-resistant packaging could be devised.
So when software breaks it can cost businesses millions of dollars due to news-making catastrophes, regulatory investigations or even a major product update or recall.
And too often, it seems, CPSC has also made the short-sighted choice to completely recall a product, to garner headlines and appease those consumer groups.
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But this is the first time I can recall a major product being reformed for different market segments so soon after launch.
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So you probably remember yesterday's scary report which quoted a Consumer Product Safety Commission spokesperson predicting that Sony's upcoming US battery recall will expand beyond just laptops, and might include portable DVD players and videogame consoles too.
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And earlier this week, the compounder recalled all lots of its sterile, unexpired products due to a lack of sterility assurance and concerns with product quality controls ( here is the recall announcement).
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Of all these incidents the most egregious was the salmonella scare and recall last summer, which involved not just Veggie Booty but a second product, Super Veggie Tings Crunchy Corn Sticks.
Over the past six years, no product caused more injuries than Leap Frog playgrounds, a toy that prior to its 2006 recall left crawling children susceptible to scrapes and bruises.
Check out the galleries above for a closer look in the meantime -- bonus points if you manage to recall the product names after you move on to more of our CES coverage.
These public data resources, made openly available in machine-readable form, include a broad range of useful information from comparison data about different health insurance plans, to product recall data from the Food and Drug Administration, to epidemiological data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to scientific information from the National Institutes of Health, and much more.
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The whey concentrate goes into yogurt to help the bacteria grow, into bread as the magic ingredient to keep the product moist and into sausage as a binder (if you wonder what's going on here, recall that Borden used to make glue from milk).
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