LACERATION/CUTTING HAZARD CAN SLICE AND DICE AND INJURE CONSUMERS

From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx; Bronx Injury Attorney)

Dated: January 21, 2010

The United States Consumer Products Safety Commission announced today that Lifetime Brands Inc. of Garden City, New York has recalled its Pedrini brand fruit and vegetable chopper.

About 6000 units have been sold. The chopper's metal blades can break and fall into food being prepared in the chopper - which presents risk of serious injury if swallowed. Not an accident that anyone wants to have.

This product, manufactured in China, cost about $25.00 and was sold at Sam's Clubs late last year (2009).

Comment: The Pedrini brand was started in Italy in 1942, and sells a wide range of table and kitchen tools. New York-based Lifetime Brands states on its website that its goal is (in part) to

develop innovative products. It seems that the company looks for inventors to work with.