Bellevue accident highlights need for safer cranes
SEATTLE – Thursday’s fatal crane accident in Bellevue is focusing a lot of attention on the industry, which has done a pretty good job in the area of safety. But went terribly and tragically wrong after the operator told firefighters he
Willie Nelson’s public statement regarding being caught with a bag of
Marijuana: “It’s a good thing I had a bag of Marijuana instead of a bag of
spinach. I’d be dead by now.”
Rep. Sam Farr, D (stands for dumb) – Carmel (although he was right about the outbreak being in part caused by wild pigs), and U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns hosted a special "spinach fest" lunch in Washington, D.C. Thursday in hopes of rebuilding consumer confidence in spinach in time for Thanksgiving. More
Graham Johnson of KIRO 7 Eyewitness News in Seattle did a great overview in the problems on E. coli in our spinach tonight. The full transcript is here.
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Investigators have now traced the source of the outbreak to cow manure on a ranch near Natural Selection foods. They think wild pigs might have carried
A great article was written today by Rong-Gong Lin II, LA Times Staff Writer. Ron, has written extensively on foodborne illnesses.
Official warns pregnant women and those with weakened immunity to avoid certain foods.
Seventeen people in Los Angeles County have contracted the bacterial food-borne illness listeriosis, including two pregnant women who had stillbirths, health
Late this evening, Timco Worldwide Inc. Recalled Cantaloupe Because of Possible Health Risk – Salmonella.
Unfortunately, this is not the first time we have seen cantaloupe recalled because of Salmonella contamination. Over the past several years, we have been involved in at least two outbreaks that were tied to cantaloupe from Mexico – See, Shipley
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The number of confirmed cases of illness attributed to E. coli bacteria is now nine.
The Orange County Health Department received a report of a possible E. coli suspect late Friday. The individual had signs and symptoms consistent with E.coli during the time period under investigation and had McAlister’s restaurant in Chapel Hill — which
When I first saw the headline “Pleasure & Peril,” I thought it was about my last week of travel – Seattle to San Fransisco to Chicago to St. Paul to Seattle to Manhattan —- Kansas. My talk to students at K-State today is entitled: “Examining Cases of Legal Liability – Or, why I always win!”
The Associated Press reports that Governor Schwarzenegger has asked Mexico President-elect Felipe Calderon to put California spinach back on supermarket shelves when he takes office December first. The Mexican government pulled U-S-imported spinach off shelves after three people died in the U-S died from eating spinach infected with the E-coli bacteria.
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Mexican officials are expected
A couple of weeks ago I spoke to Dick Dahl from Lawyers Weekly. His interesting story (if your my mother) can be found on line in an article entitled – “Cornering the Food Litigation Market” A few of the best points follow:
How did the little firm from Puget Sound become THE law firm for
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