Brandon Smith
Partner at Childers, Schlueter & Smith, LLC
I’m M. Brandon Smith, a partner at Childers, Schlueter & Smith in Atlanta, Georgia, helping injured people nationwide with pharmaceutical litigation, mass torts, product liability, and serious personal injury cases.
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J&J Rushed Test Results for Asbestos in its Baby Powder
Recently, I blogged about Johnson & Johnson’s Oct. 18 recall of nearly 33,000 bottles of its baby powder, which came alongside a disclosure that a government-funded test detected traces of cancer-causing asbestos particles in a sample of the powder. The contaminated sample came from Baby…
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More Ranitidine (Zantac) Recalls Issued Over Possible Carcinogen NDMA
On Nov. 4, I blogged about the Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) public statement announcing the detection of N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) in preliminary tests of the heartburn medication ranitidine, which is most often sold under the brand name Zantac. NDMA is a chemical agent categorized as…
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FDA Ordered Testing Finds Asbestos in Johnson & Johnson Talcum Baby Powder
On Oct. 19, the FDA announced J&J’s recall of nearly 33,000 bottles of its 22-oz Baby Powder. This came alongside a Johnson & Johnson (J&J) disclosure that a government test detected traces of cancer-causing asbestos particles in a sample of J&J Baby Powder. The recall…
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Zantac Heartburn Medication Recalled After Detection of Cancer-causing Chemical NDMA
On Sep. 13, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued a public statement announcing that low levels of N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) were detected in preliminary tests of the popular heartburn medication ranitidine, which is most often sold under the brand name Zantac. NDMA is a chemical…
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U.S. Teens Likely to Face Long-term Consequences of Vaping Addiction
Recently, I have been covering ongoing updates regarding the outbreak of e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury, or EVALI, as an alarming number of U.S. vape users fall ill. While the illness case count confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was just…
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EVALI: The Name CDC Clinicians Gave to Deadly Vaping-Related Lung Disease
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) ongoing investigation of vaping-related lung disease is expanding by the day, with the number of reported cases and deaths rapidly rising in the U.S. In fact, there have now been 1,299 confirmed vaping-related lung disease cases and…
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CDC Confirms 8th Vaping-Related Death as 530 Probable Illness Cases are Investigated
On Sep. 19, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced the eighth U.S. death linked to vaping-related lung disease as a Missouri man in his forties. This came just four days after California’s Tulare County Health and Human Services Agency announced the seventh death on…
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Federal Government Moves to Ban Flavored E-Cigarettes Shortly after FDA Issues Warning Letter to JUUL
On Sep. 9, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning letter to JUUL Labs Inc., which dominates the U.S. e-cigarette market with their vaping products. According to the letter, JUUL has been engaging in illegal and deceitful marketing tactics by making unproven…
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Health, Environmental, and Farmer Groups Call for EPA to Remove Glyphosate Products from U.S. Market
On Sep. 3, 2019 Sixteen (16) health, environmental, farmer, and farmworker organizations released a joint statement calling for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to remove glyphosate from the U.S. marketplace due to an abundance of evidence linking it to a type of cancer called non-Hodgkin’s
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New Appeals Court Filing: Lawyers Call for Jury-awarded Punitive Damages to be Upheld in Roundup Cancer Verdict
On Aug. 10, 2018, a California state jury unanimously found that Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused plaintiff Dewayne “Lee” Johnson to develop a type of cancer called non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). The jury also found that Monsanto failed to appropriately warn Roundup users of thi
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