But there have been plenty of safety warnings before - which critics say were largely ignored.
That death and the illnesses of several others exposed to carbon monoxide set off a flurry of safety warnings from public officials.
The FDA advisors could recommend additional harsh safety warnings for the drugs, or even conclude that they need to be removed from the market.
On Tuesday, the jury heard evidence from an Imco maintenance manager who claimed that his managing director constantly ignored health and safety warnings about the tower.
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Union general secretary Manuel Cortes accused the company and the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) of ignoring safety warnings 14 months before Lindsey was killed in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Other studies have shown no effect on injuries from rollover warnings in Ford Broncos, safety warnings on bunk beds or the warnings to pregnant women on alcohol containers.
When asked by BBC London why the firm and those linked to it appeared to have a history of safety warnings and previous fires, the company declined to comment.
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Mensing that failure-to-warn claims against generic drug companies are preempted by federal law, primarily because generic companies have no authority to make unilateral changes to their product labels even if they come to believe that stronger safety warnings are warranted.
But rather than condemn their litigation--which just might be making stepladders and lawn mowers slightly safer--I would criticize lawyers for something else entirely, and that is their writing ability. (It's a fair assumption that lawyers are drafting those encyclopedic hazard warnings.) I propose that consumer product companies fire the lawyers who write safety warnings.
David Graham, a researcher at the FDA's office of drug safety who had raised persistent warnings about Vioxx's safety, gave an idea of what an FDA that is even more conscious of safety might be like.
With the aid of visual and aural warnings, these safety enhancements use software, cockpit displays and related devices already installed on aircraft to alert pilots about potential mistakes.
Beside beefing up the rules to detect explosive methane or coal dust, the proposed law would make it a felony to avert safety standards and to give advance warnings that inspectors were on the premises.
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But Republican Gov. Mary Fallin, a conservative elected in the GOP landslide of 2010 on a promise to cut spending, reversed course last year after grim warnings about the effect on public safety, and after several teen suicides in Oklahoma City.
First, the FDA should add warnings proactively, and make drug companies do safety studies to get rid of them.
Available safety technologies include blind-spot and lane-departure warnings.
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