In July 2010, CDC identified a nationwide sustained increase in the number of Salmonella Enteritidis isolates with PFGE pattern JEGX01.0004 uploaded to PulseNet, the national subtyping network made up of state and local public health laboratories and federal food regulatory laboratories that performs molecular surveillance of foodborne infections. This increase began in May 2010 and
FDA Authorizes Hillandale Farms to Begin Shipping Fresh Shell Eggs
And, the guy who took the fifth gets to keep shipping eggs? The FDA is releasing a letter sent to Hillandale Farms of Hampton, Iowa, dated October 15, 2010. Hillandale Farms is one of two companies that recalled eggs in August 2010. This letter authorizes Hillandale Farms to ship eggs to the table market from
FDA Sends Warning Letter to “Quality Egg”
Quality Egg still does not seem to get it. According to Bloomberg News, Quality Egg LLC, the producer tied to a salmonella recall, may face U.S. enforcement action unless it fixes health violations at its facilities, regulators said. Conditions that may cause salmonella weren’t addressed when regulators inspected Galt, Iowa-based Quality Egg’s facilities Aug. 12
Minnesota and Wisconsin, States seemingly awash in E. coli and Salmonella
I am heading to Wisconsin via Minnesota in the morning and it got me thinking just how much of my law practice (specifically E. coli and Salmonella cases) over the years has centered on these two states in the upper midwest.
Good deeds, but also good marketing
Food Safety News and the Foodborne Illness Outbreak Database turned a year old a few weeks ago.
Like most of the things I do in life, both of them began out of an attempt to do good deeds that fortuitously also became good marketing. What do I mean by that?
Let me give you a
Law firm (Marler Clark) in PCA case donates $25,000 for scholarships at Heritage
I spoke with Dave Thompson of the Lynchburg News and Advance about our decision to donate $25,000 to Heritage High for Science Scholarships. Here is his story:
One of the legal firms that filed suit on behalf of victims in the Peanut Corp. of America salmonella case has donated $25,000 for scholarships to Heritage High
Marler Clark – The Food Safety Law Firm
What do you think of the new logo?
Non-E. coli O157:H7 STECS: What You Need To Know?
So, said the headline in my favorite online magazine – Cattlenetworks yesterday.
What the American Meat Institute thinks you need to know:
On August 18, AMI sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Vilsack outlining a path FSIS should take to address nSTECs prior to making a regulatory decision.
1. FSIS should have a transparent public
Marler’s free range (somewhat) chickens
The six chickens (all do have names) have been in the Coop de Ville (I stopped counting when the capital costs exceeded $5,000) for over a week and they (no roosters) seem to be adjusting well despite being fenced in with wired that goes underground over a foot (coyote and racoon prevention) and with a
One year later LD Stidham and wife fight Salmonella together
KFVS TV 12 reports that more than a year after being stricken by a Salmonella infection, a Mississippi County man is taking encouraging steps toward his recovery. Stidham spends an hour a day, three to four times a week, trying to regain what a Salmonella infection took away. He communicates with a nod or