Joint Press Release
Stephanie Smith and Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation announce jointly that they have settled the lawsuit filed by Ms. Smith in December 2009. Ms. Smith, a twenty-two year old former dance instructor from Cold Spring, Minnesota, sued for the severe injuries she suffered as a result of an E. coli O157:H7 infection in
In what seems like a near daily article on raw milk, I gave Georgina Gustin of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (my dad was a paper boy for them during the depression) a few choice words:
Bill Marler, an attorney who specializes in food-borne illness cases, recently represented two Missouri residents who were sickened by raw
From a USDA /FSIS press release:
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced new performance standards to reduce Salmonella and Campylobacter in young chickens (broilers) and turkeys, fulfilling another key recommendation of the President’s Food Safety Working Group. USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) also released a compliance guide to help the poultry industry address
Suzanne Jacobs of the Michigan Daily wrote in her front page story this a.m., “E. coli outbreak at ‘U’ caused by non-USDA regulated strain,” about the failure of most labs, business and health departments to test for pathogenic E. coli other than E. coli O157:H7. I had a long talk with AP on why I
A table of 34 previous outbreaks involving E. coli and Salmonella and leafy greens, like lettuce and spinach, courtesy of our friends at Barf Blog:
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E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks associated with lettuce or spinach, specifically the "pre-washed" and "ready-to-eat" varieties sold under various brand and trade names, are clearly by no means a new phenomenon.
It must be the heat – will be over 100 today.
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I was reading the Town Talk of Pineville and Alexandria (I visited there once and used to have some friends there), Louisiana this evening and read that State officials are suspecting food poisoning as the cause of the deaths of three patients at Central State Hospital. A total of 40 patients of the behavioral
In my work there are cases that haunt you. Some are the cases you work on for years, but cannot figure out the legal source of the poison that killed someone’s child. Then there are other cases, like the senseless death of Abby nearly a year ago, and her grandfather’s death just last Saturday, that
BJ’s Wholesale Club agreed to pay $11 million
Jane Lerner – White Plains Journal – April 17, 2004
BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc. and a meat supplier last week agreed to pay $11 million to the family of a New York girl who became ill with E. coli O157:H7 after eating contaminated hamburgers.
Attorneys for K.
I was reading the Saratogian and the Poughkeepsie Journal this morning and was struck by the fact that once again consumers of food – this time kids – inform us by getting sick of yet another foodborne illness outbreak – this time E. coli O145 tainted romaine lettuce – Again, AFTER they get .jpg)
sick. Great
