This is simply unacceptable. This botulism outbreak, frankly any outbreak that sickens babies, should never have happened. We can do more to protect the most vulnerable. The stork in “operation stork speed” clearly flew into a brick wall and crash landed. This child’s parents bought ByHeart Infant Formula at a Walmart. ByHeart utilized powdered organic […]
Over the last several years we have seen multiple instances where Clostridium difficile and foodborne illness have been related. However, the Clostridium difficile infection has generally been associated with the foodborne illness after treatment for the infection by antibiotics, not as a result of actual ingestion of the Clostridium difficile bacteria. However, in the recent […]
Severe illness – Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) – caused by E. coli O157:H7, impacts kids the hardest. Here is another family’s story of when feeding your kids something healthy goes very wrong. Chloe Palmer Spinach E. coli and HUS from Marlerclark on Vimeo.
Click on below to watch video. E. coli Victim: June Dunning from Marlerclark on Vimeo.
FDA announced that Union International Food Co. is expanding a spice recall to include all Lian How brand and Uncle Chen brand sauces, oil and oil blends in various size packages because the products may be contaminated with salmonella, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections, especially in young children, the elderly […]
Had a great chance to speak with Miriam Wolf of Culinate. Here is the interview: In 1993, as a Seattle trial lawyer, he was hired to litigate against the fast-food restaurant chain Jack in the Box, whose E. coli-contaminated hamburgers had killed four children. Since then, he’s worked on nearly every major case of food-borne […]
In late October 2003, Beaver County ER doctors reported an alarming number of Hepatitis A cases. Investigators from the Pennsylvania Department of Health initiated an investigation immediately and discovered that many, if not all, cases had eaten at Chi Chi’s restaurant in Monaca, Pennsylvania’s Beaver Valley Mall. Along with the health department, the federal Centers […]
I have the great honor to once again speak before the Royal Society for Public Health in London next month. It will be great to share the stage again with Hugh Pennington. Professor Pennington just finished an extensive investigation into an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak that sickened many and killed a child. I also look […]
The FDA announced additional and expanded items that are being recalled. The following recalls have been announced because the products may be contaminated with salmonella, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections, especially in young children, the elderly and those with weakened immune systems:
Donna Roy was part of the 2006 Dole Spinach E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak. She developed Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS), which is a severe, life-threatening complication of an E. coli O157:H7 bacterial infection. It is now recognized as the most common cause of acute kidney failure in childhood in the United States. E. coli O157:H7 is […]
Two people died while four others are in critical condition in Cebu after eating a fried sea cucumber delicacy on Saturday, a report said. The sea cucumber, a herbivore, is not known for being poisonous but it secretes blue ink from its skin which is potentially lethal to any predators. According to one official – […]
I spent part of the day working on the sad case of a Crescent City, California woman, Mrs. Tardiff, who contracted Campylobacter jejuni from consuming raw milk purchased at Alexandre Family EcoDairy Farms. The farms stopped the sale of raw milk. The Del Norte County Department of Public Health eventually linked at least 16 people […]
So, between reading my emails, I read the 1984 JAMA Article by G. A. Merrill, S. B. Werner, R. G. Bryant, D. Fredson and K. Kelly Staphylococcal food poisoning associated with an Easter egg hunt Staphylococcal contamination of intact, hard-boiled eggs resulted in the food poisoning of an estimated 300 children out of 850 who […]
So, I get home from visiting my parents for Easter and I get this email from hugh.parnell@yahoo.com. The email came from Lynchburg Virginia – home of Falwell Ministries, Liberty University, Stewart Parnell and the Peanut Corporation of America: You have got to be a money crazy son of a bitch, with a big mouth. People […]