As many as 16 implicated with 1 death.
Oregon Public Health officials have identified fresh strawberries from a Newberg farm as the source of a cluster of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections that sickened at least 10 people last month, including one person who died.
The strawberries were produced last month by Jaquith Strawberry Farm located
In the middle of a 35,709,675 pound (and likely too grow) recall of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella Heidelberg tainted turkey meat, and the continued concern for Salmonella Newport, Salmonella Hadar, and Salmonella Typhimurium in our food supply, comes Salmonella Kentucky.
In a recent article in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, abstracted online, the national Salmonella surveillance
Well, Cargill has not yet responded to my offer – “Marler Clark to Cargill: Start Testing and We Won’t Sue You” – but they certainly do not seem adverse to lawsuits.
AP reported Friday that Cargill Meat Solutions filed a lawsuit against Greater Omaha Packing Company over a 2007 E. coli O157:H7 beef recall. Friday’s
Matthew Sigur of the Alexandria Louisiana Towntalk and I spoke a few weeks ago about the article “Louisiana to post results of restaurant inspections,” that goes live Monday, along with online inspections.
William “Bill” Marler, a personal injury lawyer in Seattle, Wash., who specializes in food poisoning cases, has worked on major food-borne illness
Almost four years ago I penned – “Cargill, getting reacquainted with the Enemy” – in response to Cargill recalling nearly 2,000,000 pounds of E. coli O157:H7 tainted hamburger (that is nearly enough to give every New Yorker a quarter pounder) in October and November of 2007.
As I said then it was and is not
Marler Clark, the nation’s only law firm dedicated solely to representing victims of foodborne illness, is making a unique offer to Minneapolis-based Cargill, Inc., the company whose ground turkey has been identified as the source of a national outbreak of an antibiotic-resistant strain of Salmonella called Salmonella Heidelberg. This week, Cargill recalled 36,000,000 pounds
This week the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced a recall of ground beef products due to “possible” Salmonella contamination. According to the press release, “Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation, a Springdale, Ark. establishment, is recalling approximately 36 million pounds of ground turkey products that may be contaminated with a multi-drug resistant strain of
USDA/FSIS defines a Class I Recall as:
This is a health hazard situation where there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death.
No kidding! Here are the dirty half dozen of Class I Recalls since I started tracking them:
CDC has updated the ongoing Salmonella Heidelberg Outbreak linked to Cargill turkey burger:
It is time for the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) to fulfill its public health mission and get antibiotic-resistant Salmonella out of the American meat supply.
In May 2011, as the number of illnesses were mounting without public knowledge in the recent Cargill ground turkey Salmonella Heildelberg outbreak and recall
