Blades in 8 million Cuisinarts recalled

Blades in 8 million Cuisinarts recalled

The riveted blades in about 8 million Cuisinart food processors are being recalled after customers reported bits of the blade breaking off and getting in their food.

The affected food processors were sold from July 1996 through December 2015.

The blades in question have four rivets, are stainless steel and have a beige plastic center hub. Only food processors with four rivets in the blades are included in the recall. The processors sold for $100 to $350.

Customers should immediately stop using the riveted blade and contact Cuisinart for a free replacement blade. This can be done online at www.cuisinart.com/recall. The model numbers being recalled are CFP-9, CFP-11, DFP-7, DFP-11, DFP-14, DLC-5, DLC-7, DLC-8, DLC-10, DLC-XP, DLC-2007, DLC-2009, DLC-2011, DLC-2014, DLC-3011, DLC-3014, EV-7, EV-10, EV-11, EV-14, KFP-7 and MP-14. The model number is on the bottom of the food processor.

ConAgra to settle case

ALBANY, GA.

A ConAgra subsidiary pleaded guilty Tuesday and agreed to pay $11.2 million – including the largest criminal fine ever imposed for a foodborne illness in the U.S. – to resolve a decade-long criminal investigation into a nationwide salmonella outbreak blamed on tainted peanut butter.

ConAgra admitted to a single misdemeanor count of shipping adulterated food. No individuals at the leading food conglomerate faced any charges in the 2006 outbreak, which sickened at least 625 people in 47 states.

Chief: Department unaware of concerns

oakland, calif.

Complaints mounted about the warehouse converted into an illegal artists’ colony before a deadly blaze ripped through this month, but few – if any – made it to the Oakland Fire Department.

Oakland Fire Chief Teresa Deloach Reed said Tuesday there are no city records showing her department receiving concerns about the building, which former residents, neighbors and others say was the subject of numerous calls to 911.

The deadliest structure fire in the U.S. in more than a decade broke out during a Dec. 2 late-night dance party in the cluttered warehouse. It killed 36 people.

Rebels to evacuate in surrender deal

BEIRUT

Syrian rebels reached a cease-fire deal to evacuate from eastern Aleppo in an effective surrender Tuesday, as Russia declared all military action had stopped and the Syrian government had assumed control of the former rebel enclave.

The dramatic developments, which appeared to restore the remainder of what was once Syria’s largest city to President Bashar Assad’s forces after months of heavy fighting and a crippling siege, followed reports of mass killings by government forces closing in on the final few blocks still held by the rebels.

Damascus confirmed the evacuation deal and the U.N. envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, called for immediate access to the former rebel enclave to confirm the end of military operations and to oversee the safe departure of tens of thousands of civilians and opposition fighters.

Combined dispatches