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News developments that we’ll be watching at Sokolove Law:

Grocery chain Albertson’s LLC agreed to pay $8.9 million to settle discrimination lawsuits filed by 168 black and Hispanic workers who claimed they faced racial taunts and graffiti while working in the company’s Denver warehouse distribution center, according to an Associated Press report. The three suits were initially filed on behalf of the workers by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The AP said that Albertson’s maintains that the incidents occurred before it took over the distribution center in June 2006.

Cover Your Ears: Time writes that a unpublished report by German researchers has found that exposure to jet noise increases a person’s  increased risk of stroke, high blood pressure, and heart disease. The study, due to publish in January, reports that women exposed to jet noise have a 93% higher rate of hospitalization for cardiovascular problems (69% for men). Women also are 172% more likely to have a stroke due to jet noise exposure, says the magazine.

San Francisco may become the first US city to require cellphone radiation labels, writes the Associated Press. AP says that San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is pushing legislation requiring cell phone retailers to post radiation levels next each phone in type as large as that advertising the price.

Recall: Atlas Operations, Inc. and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have notified consumers of a nationwide recall of the company’s dietary supplements for sexual enhancement. These products are currently being sold as dietary supplements throughout the United States. The FDA said its lab analyses found that some of the products tested contain Sulfoaildenafil, an analogue of Sildenafil, an FDA-approved drug used as treatment for male Erectile Dysfunction (ED), making these products unapproved drugs. The active drug ingredient is not listed on the product labels. The undeclared ingredient may pose a consumer health threat because its interaction with some prescription drugs (such as nitroglycerin) may lower blood pressure to dangerous levels.

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