So far the CDC reports that 654 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 44 states. The outbreak began September 1, 2008 and has continued through at least February 3, 2009. The ill are less than one to over 98. 23% reported being hospitalized. Infection may have contributed to
February 2009
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I heard a great talk today by my friend, Dave Theno, who is the now retired head of food safety at Jack in the Box. He told the packed audience of meat producers that he still keeps a picture in his briefcase of one of the children who died in the 1993 E. coli O157:H7…
More Talks on Food Safety
I had a TV interview with a local Las Vegas station on the peanut butter mess. I then had a good speech, and then a great round table discussion, about food safety with members of the National Meat Association. They asked me back again to talk in the morning, so I am working on what…
Speech Before the National Meat Association
Thank you NMA for inviting me here to Las Vegas. My guess is inviting a trial lawyer into your convention is a bit of a “gamble.”
Once again another food poisoning outbreak, perhaps slightly more outrageous than the ones before, now with over 650 sickened, 150 hospitalized and nine deaths, but eerily similar to those…
Off to Vegas and Palm Springs for Food Safety Speeches – Rough Duty, but Someone Has to Do It
I have been up to my knees in Poisoned Peanut Butter over the last few weeks. Between Congressional Hearings, Criminal Investigations, Bankruptcies, Lawsuits, a Declaratory Judgment Action, more Lawsuits and suing Mr. Parnell (aka Peanut Tycoon) personally, the speeches I am giving at the National Meat Association in Vegas (Sunday/Monday) and the Grocery Manufacturers/Food Products…
Cysticercosis – Pork Tapeworm
Cysticercosis (SIS-tuh-sir-KO-sis) is a potentially serious disease of humans caused when people ingest the eggs of a tapeworm that lives in the intestines of other humans. This tapeworm, Taenia solium, is sometimes called the “pork tapeworm” because people get this type of tapeworm from eating undercooked pork. If a pig swallows the eggs of the tapeworm (passed in human feces), the pig doesn’t develop a tapeworm in its intestines. Instead, it develops microscopic capsules (called cysts) in its muscles that contain larval tapeworms. These cysts don’t make the pig sick, but people who eat raw or undercooked pork products containing these cysts develop the tapeworm and begin passing eggs in their stools as well.
Taeniasis (TEE-nahy-uh-sis) is the presence of one or more tapeworms in the intestines. People get this tapeworm by eating cysts in undercooked pork. Most people who have the tapeworm in their intestines won’t have any symptoms, but in some cases (especially if they have many tapeworms) they may develop nausea, diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, or constipation. A tapeworm can live in an infected person’s intestines and continue to produce eggs for 25 years! The tapeworms begin shedding eggs five to twelve weeks after the tapeworm cyst was ingested in undercooked pork. People carrying living tapeworms in their intestines will shed tapeworm eggs every day in their stool; each tapeworm can produce 250,000 eggs per day. These eggs can infect other people or pigs as soon as they are shed in the stool. The eggs they shed can survive a few weeks or months in the environment. People carrying tapeworms can be diagnosed by having their stools examined in a laboratory to look for tapeworm eggs. Infected people can be treated with medication to kill the tapeworms. The stools should be examined frequently for several months to be sure all of the tapeworms have been killed.Continue Reading Cysticercosis – Pork Tapeworm
E. coli O157:H7 Impacts Your Friends, Neighbors, the Young and Old
The following five short videos, I hope tell the story of what this nasty bug, E. coli O157:H7, can do and why it needs to be prevented.
Ashlee Mattson: 2006 Spinach E. Coli Outbreak Survivor from Marlerclark on Vimeo.
2007 Ground Beef E. coli Outbreak & Recall Victim: Samantha Safranek from Marlerclark on Vimeo
Stewart Parnell to be added personally to Peanut Butter Salmonella Suits
Parnhell or Parnell? Must be a Typo?
Given the bankruptcy of the Peanut Corporation of America, and the resent disclosures of the knowledge of Stewart Parnell in shipping Salmonella-tainted peanut products, we are in the process of amending our complaints to name Mr. Parnell personally as a defendant. In researching the Georgia Secretary of State site, we found the below entry:
Must…
CDC – New Salmonella Numbers in Peanut Butter Outbreak
642 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 44 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (2), Arizona (13), Arkansas (6), California (76), Colorado (15), Connecticut (10), Florida (1), Georgia (6), Hawaii (4), Idaho (16), Illinois (9), Indiana (9), Iowa (3), Kansas…