Sylvester, Georgia – Thousands of people worldwide were sickened by Sylvester produced Peter Pan and Great Value Peanut Butter and are suing ConAgra Foods. Ten attorneys were allowed inside the plant Monday to see for themselves how salmonella bacteria ended up inside peanut butter jars.
Lawyers, photographers, and engineers walked the roof of ConAgra Foods,
The Associated Press out of Atlanta broke our visit to the ConAgra Peanut Butter plant in Sylvester, Georgia
ConAgra’s Leaking Roof
Lawyers and investigators visit south Ga. peanut butter plant
An army of plaintiffs’ lawyers and investigators is inspecting the south Georgia peanut butter plant linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than
Two new cases of E. coli bacteria infection among people who ate at a Lake Forest restaurant were confirmed Saturday and health officials said the restaurant would be closed until further notice.
The other latest case involves an employee who tested positive for E. coli despite not reporting any early symptoms.Restaurant officials voluntarily closed
According to a breaking AP story:
Young E. coli victim improves, could leave intensive care
A girl hospitalized with an E. coli infection after eating at a restaurant was expected to be transferred out of intensive care by the weekend, a hospital spokeswoman said Friday. The 12-year-old girl was one of 10 people sickened by
Authorities say three more cases of E, coli have been identified among customers of an Orange County restaurant, bringing the number of people sickened to ten. The Orange County Health Agency says interviews with all ten people confirmed they ate at a restaurant in Lake Forest on March 23rd or 24th. The agency says officials
See post at www.salmonellablog.com
According to Associated Press reports:
ConAgra spokeswoman Stephanie Childs said the company traced the Salmonella outbreak to three incidents in its Sylvester, Ga., plant last August. The plant’s roof leaked during a rainstorm and the sprinkler system went off twice because of a faulty sprinkler, which was repaired. The moisture from
What is Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS)?
Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) (see www.about-hus.com) is a severe, life-threatening complication of an E. coli O157:H7 bacterial infection (see www.about-ecoli.com). Although most people recover from an E. coli O157:H7 infection, about 5-10% of infected individuals goes on to develop HUS.
Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome was first described in 1955,
Since the news first broke of E. coli illnesses tied to an Orange County buffet-type restaurant, we have received several calls from folks who believe that they have been sickened. We are investigating those claims.
When I first heard about an E. coli outbreak tied to a buffet-restaurant, I must admit I was not too
The Orange County Register reports that a restaurant and the Orange County Health Department try to pinpoint origin of illness
The restaurant, a San Diego-based salad-bar chain, is cooperating with Orange County health officials who are trying to pinpoint the food that caused six children and one adult to get sick after eating at a
The crusading journalist Upton Sinclair stunned the nation in 1906 with his book The Jungle, which exposed deplorable, dangerous conditions in the slaughterhouses of Chicago. Later that year, Congress acted, and the rules it
