From the Saint Cloud Times – Stephanie Smith of Cold Spring was a 20-year-old dance instructor when she contracted E. coli after eating a hamburger at a family barbecue in 2007. She also developed HUS and spent nine months in the hospital, including two months in a medically induced coma to prevent seizures.
Smith returned
In reading Justice Alito’s dissent in Wyeth v. Levine, the recent Supreme Court opinion holding that FDA-approval does not provide a complete defense to state law failure-to-warn claim, I was reminded of the horrifying torture scene in the 1976 thriller, Marathon Man. In this scene, Laurence Olivier, playing a Nazi war criminal, who also happens
Manufacturers, such as Kellogg, can also be held accountable under the law, Marler said.
"One thing that’s great about the American justice system is that it’s a great way of focusing a company’s attention on the problem it created," Marler said.
See full article, "Washington man files suit vs. Kellogg, claiming salmonella poisoning."
CDC now reports 683 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 46 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (2), Arizona (13), Arkansas (6), California (76), Colorado (17), Connecticut (11), Florida (1), Georgia (6), Hawaii (6), Idaho (17), Illinois (11), Indiana (10)
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About 50 cases from Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and South Dakota have been linked to the outbreak, according to a recent press release from the South Dakota Department of Health. Nebraska has identified 15 ill. South Dakota has identified five cases from five of its southeastern counties and that more cases were pending. Iowa’s Department
Well, according to my friends in Louisiana, it is at your local Target.
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When it comes to inspecting the thousands of food manufacturing facilities in our increasingly complex and intertwined food supply, some argue that we need more actual governmental audits while others argue that private, third-party audits are the way to go. In the Peanut Corporation of America, Kellogg and King Nut Salmonella Outbreak, audits – government
Some 400 people have fallen ill after eating at world-renowned restaurant The Fat Duck, which was temporarily closed last month due to a food poisoning scare, officials said on Friday. The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said the number of cases reported at top chef Heston Blumenthal’s eatery had grown after media coverage of the outbreak.
According to the Spokane Newspaper, Washington State health investigators are still attempting to solve several cases of food-borne infections that have caused several pregnant women to lose their babies since January. They suspect the women in Yakima, Klickitat and King counties ate unpasteurized cheese that was contaminated with listeria bacteria. Listeria is often found in
