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June Dunning, E. coli O146:H21, 2006, Death
Right up until the time of her death, Ms. Dunning remained an active, self-aware and outgoing woman. Her health had always been good too. For the last seven years of her life, June lived in Hagerstown, Maryland with her daughter, and her son-in-law. On August 28, 2006, June
When we hear that there has been a recall of hamburger tainted with Salmonella Newport, how many of us would know which company slaughtered the cow and ground the meat? Would we know that the meat came from Beef Packers Inc. (a.k.a. Cargill), or would we only know the store we bought the meat from?
Personally, as I said to the Los Angeles Times a few days ago, “I think that anything that can poison or kill a person should be listed as an adulterant” [in food].
According to the CDC, E. coli O157:H7 is the source of an estimated 73,000 illnesses, 2,000 hospitalizations, and 60 deaths in the United
So, the dairy industry pumps the cows full of antibiotics and then when done with them sends them to slaughter to be fed to us.
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Use of antibiotic susceptibility patterns and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis to compare historic and contemporary isolates of multi-drug-resistant Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Newport, Appl Environ Microbiol. 2004 Jan;70(1):318-23, Berge AC
I missed Ms. Cole’s presentaion at the AVMA Conference a few weeks ago and just received a copy of her PowerPoint. I really liked the pictures of the cows from the Dee Creek Farm that was linked to an E. coli O157:H7 Raw Milk Outbreak in 2005. Click below to see her presenation:
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I have always been a bit amazed at the meat industry and the USDA. In the nearly 17 years of litigating E. coli O157:H7 cases – mostly on behalf of children – I am tired (and a bit disgusted) by the constant din of blaming the consumer. Sometimes the industry goes so far as to
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My kids have been telling me it for years, but I have always been a bit suspect. However, this morning I was informed that I had been selected by my peers for inclusion in the 2010 edition of "The Best Lawyers in America®" in the specialty of Personal Injury Litigation.
According to the website
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Click on above image to see final bill passed from the House, or see my post below.
It is clear that most of the people chattering across the Internet on either side have never read the bill (arguably, many who voted on did not either). Below is a summary as I read the bill. In order to effectively read it, you have the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, Chapter IV open to
Click to read full test of S. 510.
Now that the House passed H.R. 2949 it will run into S. 510 – "A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the safety of the food supply." Chief Sponsor: Sen Durbin, Richard. It has 10 co-sponsors. Last March it was "Read twice
