The FDA has published the following warning: Consumers worldwide should not use any ByHeart brand infant formula as all ByHeart products are included in this recall. As we know, as of November 26, 2025, a total of 37 infants with suspected or confirmed infant botulism and confirmed exposure to ByHeart Whole Nutrition infant formula (various […]
May 3-6, 2009 I will be in Kananaskis, Alberta giving a speech at the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors (L’Institut canadien des inspecteurs en sante publique). And, well, I just found out that I had a paper accepted at the May 10-13, 2009 7th International Symposium on Shiga Toxin (Verocytotoxin) producing Escherichia coli infections […]
Kudos to The Hartford for doing the right thing for the victims of this Salmonella tragedy and sending me the insurance policies in question for the policy period 2008-2009. Great bedtime reading. Let the analysis begin and the Declaratory Judgment action fade away.
Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius accepted President Obama’s request to become his secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Governor Sebelius will inherit a department of 65,000 employees responsible for public health, food safety, scientific research, and the administration of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, which serve 90 million Americans. The Food Safety side of HHS […]
My mom will be proud – my blog on food safety, foodborne illness, and food policy was honored by PR News as best law blog in the Legal PR awards for 2009 – well OK, so I have the only legitimate one for a lawyer. Anyway, for those that have not spent much time here, […]
The FDA’s Website is useful if you have the time to search for everything that might contain Peanut Corporation of America Salmonella-Tainted Peanuts. My strong suspicion is that the FDA’s "simplified" PCA distribution chart will leave you scratching your head (click below to download PDF). It is a bit hard to grasp how one company […]
Lynne Terry of The Oregonian keeps following the Peanut Butter Trail. Here are excerpts from an article she just posted online: Earlier this month, a Wilsonville boy put a face on the salmonella outbreak that has sickened scores nationwide. Three-year-old Jacob Hurley sat, wearing a big-knotted tie in an angry congressional subcommittee meeting, as his […]
Op-ed – Atlanta Journal Constitution By WILLIAM D. MARLER Sunday, March 01, 2009 After a brief lull a few years ago, we’re seeing a sweeping increase in outbreaks of salmonella, E. coli and other food-borne contaminants. There are many reasons for this ugly trend: businesses more focused on sales than safety, fragmented government agencies, inadequate […]
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According to the Southtown Star Daily, twenty-one children and one adult have contracted E. coli at a Lemont day care in an outbreak that began earlier this month. The Cook County Health Department has mandated all children and adults at the KinderCare Learning Center, 12404 Archer Ave., be tested for the bacteria. Three children associated […]
Finally got wireless access at the GMA Food Claims and Litigation Conference. Peanut Update – Texas health officials confirmed this morning that Salmonella Typhimurium has been found in peanut meal at a Texas plant owned by Peanut Corporation of America (PCA). This plant’s product had been linked to several illnesses in Colorado. PCA’s Georgia plant […]
So far the CDC reports that 654 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 44 states. The outbreak began September 1, 2008 and has continued through at least February 3, 2009. The ill are less than one to over 98. 23% reported being hospitalized. Infection may have contributed to […]
I heard a great talk today by my friend, Dave Theno, who is the now retired head of food safety at Jack in the Box. He told the packed audience of meat producers that he still keeps a picture in his briefcase of one of the children who died in the 1993 E. coli O157:H7 […]
I had a TV interview with a local Las Vegas station on the peanut butter mess. I then had a good speech, and then a great round table discussion, about food safety with members of the National Meat Association. They asked me back again to talk in the morning, so I am working on what […]
Thank you NMA for inviting me here to Las Vegas. My guess is inviting a trial lawyer into your convention is a bit of a “gamble.” Once again another food poisoning outbreak, perhaps slightly more outrageous than the ones before, now with over 650 sickened, 150 hospitalized and nine deaths, but eerily similar to those […]
I have been up to my knees in Poisoned Peanut Butter over the last few weeks. Between Congressional Hearings, Criminal Investigations, Bankruptcies, Lawsuits, a Declaratory Judgment Action, more Lawsuits and suing Mr. Parnell (aka Peanut Tycoon) personally, the speeches I am giving at the National Meat Association in Vegas (Sunday/Monday) and the Grocery Manufacturers/Food Products […]