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February 10, 2021
New York State Attorney General Letitia James wrote a letter on Tuesday to Dr. Janet Woodcock, Acting Commissioner for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding a recent report from the House Oversight and Reform Committee Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy which said there are dangerous levels of heavy and toxic metals in baby foods, specifically arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury. James asked the FDA to implement the recommendations found in the report.
“Right now, parents across the nation are unknowingly feeding their babies dangerous, toxic metals because these companies are not doing their due diligence to protect our children,” said Attorney General James in a press release. “This shouldn’t be controversial, this shouldn’t even be a question, unsafe levels of arsenic and other toxic metals do not belong in baby food.”
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Internet provider RCN has accused anti-piracy company Rightscorp of unfair practices that resulted from partly fraudulent anti-piracy notices. Rightscorp asked the court to dismiss the claims but RCN now says that this would be wrong. While this legal battle is ongoing in a New Jersey federal court, Rightscorp s website has vanished.
Spearheaded by the RIAA, several major music industry companies have filed lawsuits against some of the largest U.S. Internet providers.
The music companies accuse these providers of failing to terminate accounts of the most egregious pirates, thus ignoring millions of copyright infringement notices.
The liability lawsuits are seen as a major threat to the ISP industry, as multiple companies face hundreds of millions of dollars in potential damages. This is not just a hypothetical threat, as the $1 billion verdict against Cox has shown.