InjuryBoard Honolulu Archives

• FDA Declares Pork Safe in Melamine Scare

  Shannon Weidemann | April 30, 2007 10:49 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  In the continuing news about the pet food recall, food fed to pigs at a small number of farms in the country contained melamine. The FDA has announced that they consider any pork from the pigs as safe. 345 pigs that had eaten the contaminated food have entered the human food supply. In the Saturday statement, the FDA and the USDA said the possibility of human illness from eating swine exposed...

• Honolulu Man Dies in Car Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | April 18, 2007 10:10 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A 34-year-old man driving a Jeep on Mauna Kea Access Road in Hilo went off the road, down an embankment and flipped over. The driver was killed. The driver's 31-year-old wife was taken to the Queen's Medical Center to be treated for her injuries. A 33-year-old woman from Japan also died. Police are withholding her name pending positive identification and notification of her next of kin....