Woman died in E. coli outbreak
Marler Clark has filed a lawsuit in Sarpy County District Court on behalf of a Bellevue woman who died from complications of E. coli.
Attorney Bill Marler says 81-year-old Ruby Trautz died of acute kidney failure in late August. Trautz’s death has since been linked to the national E.
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Salmonella bacteria can grow on tomato skin surfaces and infiltrate core tissues during tomato harvest, packing, and transportation. Dicing and pooling of contaminated tomatoes may play a role in further amplifying the amount of contaminated product. Contamination of internal tissue from the outer skin and stem scar can also occur during cutting and slicing. Finally, many Salmonella strains grow rapidly in cut tomatoes held at room temperature, enhancing the risk if tomatoes are maintained at room temperature for extended periods.
Salmonella outbreaks have previously been associated with raw tomatoes, which accordingly should have been recognized as a potential source of contamination. In 1990, a reported 174 Salmonella javiana illnesses, as part of a four state outbreak, were linked to raw tomatoes. In 1993, 84 reported cases of Salmonella Montevideo were part of a three state outbreak that was linked to raw tomatoes.
Continue Reading Prior Salmonella Outbreaks Associated with Tomatoes
In what may become the tag-line for last month’s E. coli/spinach outbreak and this month’s Salmonella/Tomato outbreak, Dr. Doug Powell of Kansas said it best – DON’T EAT
Dr. Powell was interviewed by Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY for this morning’s article:
Food-borne bacteria evolving, becoming more dangerous
The first rule of public health is
The Atlanta Associated Press reports that the salmonella outbreak potentially linked to produce has sickened at least 172 people in 18 states, health officials said Monday. Marler Clark represented over 150 people sickened in a salmonella outbreak linked to tainted tomatoes in 2003. Perhaps this outbreak will take the heat off of the California
I get asked frequently about how we decide which cases to go forward with. Frankly, how we evaluate cases is quite similair to how Health Departments decide which cases to investigate or not – please see my publication – Separating the Chaff from the Wheat : How to determine the strength of a foodborne illness
As reported last Friday by Larry Parsons – Monterey Herald Staff Writer – in “Taking on the spinach stigma – Officials gather to discuss how to restore vegetable’s image after deadly E. coli outbreak,” a group of 60 people lunched Friday on fresh spinach, Congressman Sam Farr said with pride, which according to
Over the last several weeks I have been asked dozens of times about the origin of E. coli O157:H7 and the impacts upon people. I remembered an article written on January 6, 1998 By Gina Kolata of the New York Times entitled: Detective Work and Science Reveal a New Lethal Bacteria
I have taken the
Interesting article that I hope has no applicability of the source of E. coli O157:H7
4NI Northern Ireland News reports that defense scientists secretly tested E. coli bacteria as a possible biological weapon in the 1960s, according to a Ministry of Defense report. According to the 1966 MoD report on the Porton Down laboratory in
The FDA has found nine positive E. coli O157:H7 samples from one of the four ranches implicated previously – several hundred environmental samples have been taken. The samples have been found in cattle feces, a water sample and in the intestinal lining of a feral pig (YES, they killed the pig). The positive samples from
When I was in Milwaukee Monday I had the chance to talk to the Rotary and to WTMJ News – here is part of the report on the station’s Spinach test for E. coli O157:H7 in bags of spinach off store shelves:
E. coli killed three people and made 200 others sick. The culprit: bagged
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