Today, our global food supply is a long one. The lengthening of the supply chain allows more opportunities for problems to occur.
Chris Fronzak, my client and lead singer for the heavy metal band Attila, consumed a spicy tuna roll containing Nakaochi Scrape at a Metairie, Louisiana restaurant while his band was on tour –
This is another it what will be a long – too long – series of outbreak investigations where we have represented consumers in what I hope will be a cautionary tale, and a learning experience, for manufacturers of food.
It was not that outbreaks linked to leafy greens had not happened before – 2006 was
In the summer of 2002 I received a phone call one morning from a fellow who had been up all night with diarrhea and vomiting. He had learned too that several others who had attended a wedding the prior weekend were sick as well. Thus started our investigation into the Brook-Lea Country Club Salmonella outbreak.
This is another it what will be a long – too long – series of outbreak investigations where we have represented consumers in what I hope will be a cautionary tale, and a learning experience, for manufacturers of food.
I have told restaurant and grocery store associations many, many times that they are only as
Mine anyway.
Let’s be honest: as an attorney who makes a substantial portion of his living by filing lawsuits against restaurants, it’s not in my financial interest to have the National Restaurant Association (NRA) change its position on mandatory hepatitis-A vaccinations for food-handlers. That being said, I think the NRA’s position is largely indefensible, especially
This is another it what will be a long – too long – series of outbreak investigations where we have represented consumers in what I hope will be a cautionary tale, and a learning experience, for manufacturers of food.
Nebraska Beef and its meat-processing plant had a long history of safety and health violations, and
In April and May of 1998, public health officials in eleven states received an unusually high number of reports that patients receiving health care services for gastrointestinal illness had been diagnosed with Salmonella serotype Agona infections. The number of illnesses represented an eightfold increase over the median number of Salmonella Agona cases reported in those
I had the opportunity to meet a number of the best and the brightest in the produce industry today, and learned much about what they are now doing to make produce safer. I am hopeful for consumers and the growers, shippers and retailers. Not surprisingly, cantaloupe came up more that a few times due to
Strike 1.
On September 7, 2005, the Albany County Health Department (ACHD) was notified that a child was hospitalized with a diagnosis of hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). Preliminary laboratory testing of the child’s stool had been conducted at St. Peter’s Hospital, and tests were originally negative for the presence of E. coli O157:H7.
This is another it what will be a long – too long – series of outbreak investigations where we have represented consumers in what I hope will be a cautionary tale, and a learning experience, for manufacturers of food.
On July 7, 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”)[1] learned that two
