Camps Solicitors have been contacted in recent weeks by members of the public complaining of numbness, difficulties with balance and anaemia after using a popular brand of denture glue.  These symptoms are believed to have been caused by a build-up in the body of the metal zinc, an ingredient in the denture glues, which can be harmful when present in large quantities in the body. The Poligrip and Fixodent ranges of… read more

Herbalist given suspended sentence after selling cancer-causing pills A medicinal herbalist has been given a 2 year suspended sentence after selling pills that left one of her customers with kidney failure and cancer.  The supposedly safe pills she had sold were analysed and found to contain the cancer-causing chemical aristolochic acid.  The case has raised concerns about the potential risks of alternative medicines, and their potential to cause severe injuries. This particular… read more

Just imagine the situation, you’re tucking in to a meal, or snacking on a chocolate bar, and you get an agonising pain as your teeth hit something hard that you didn’t expect to be there.  Well a few years ago at Camps Solicitors one of our own employees suffered just this sort of injury when she bit into a jagged piece of plastic that had been embedded into her Nestle… read more

With the credit crunch beginning to bite, this year many people have chosen to take a summer holiday in this country rather than going abroad. Many of us use a holiday as a welcome break from cooking food at home, however every year there are a small number of food poisoning outbreaks in the UK that can be traced back food purchased from hotels, restaurants or cafes. A recent case… read more