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 […]
Cysticercosis (SIS-tuh-sir-KO-sis) is a potentially serious disease of humans caused when people ingest the eggs of a tapeworm that lives in the intestines of other humans. This tapeworm, Taenia solium, is sometimes called the “pork tapeworm” because people get this type of tapeworm from eating undercooked pork. If a pig swallows the eggs of the […]
The following five short videos, I hope tell the story of what this nasty bug, E. coli O157:H7, can do and why it needs to be prevented. Ashlee Mattson: 2006 Spinach E. Coli Outbreak Survivor from Marlerclark on Vimeo. 2007 Ground Beef E. coli Outbreak & Recall Victim: Samantha Safranek from Marlerclark on Vimeo.
It is clear given the revelations (and emails) form last weeks Congressional Hearings, that Mr. Parnell needs to be personally involved in this litigation. The below amended complaint will be filed this afternoon:
Given the bankruptcy of the Peanut Corporation of America, and the resent disclosures of the knowledge of Stewart Parnell in shipping Salmonella-tainted peanut products, we are in the process of amending our complaints to name Mr. Parnell personally as a defendant. In researching the Georgia Secretary of State site, we found the below entry: Must […]
642 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 44 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (2), Arizona (13), Arkansas (6), California (76), Colorado (15), Connecticut (10), Florida (1), Georgia (6), Hawaii (4), Idaho (16), Illinois (9), Indiana (9), Iowa (3), Kansas […]
I am loving this Web Archive Site. I received an email from one of my subscribers asking, “Bill, the CDC and FDA have linked nearly 650 illnesses and nine deaths to PCA’s facility in Blakely, Georgia and the Colorado Department of Health may have linked some of the illnesses to the Plainview, Texas Plant. In […]
In a good example of whatever you put on the internet or in emails may come back to haunt you (hey, note that this stuff was "organic certified"), I found this choice quote by Stewart Parnell, President (a.k.a. “I’ll take the fifth Parnell") on this web archive site link: At Peanut Corporation of America, we’ve […]
I do not pretend to fully understand the secret codes of the bankruptcy lawyers and the Court. However, I have hired the same firm that helped me and my clients manage both the Chi-Chi and Topps Bankruptcies. The bottom line is that the victims must be protected from PCA’s and Mr. Parnell’s criminal acts, other […]
Last week, I was hired by the one case in Florida, so Florida is now on the map. So, why no cases in Alaska, Montana, Delaware, Louisiana, New Mexico or South Carolina? They eat no peanut butter? Someone should call the states’ health departments. The CDC numbers as of last Wednesday are 636 persons infected […]
Lynne Terry (aka “peanut girl”) of the Oregonian continued to break the story yesterday that Colorado Health Officials have traced six Salmonella illnesses to the now closed Peanut Corporation of America’s (PCA’s) Plainview, Texas plant of Peanut Corporation of America. Efoodalert posted on her blog on the 10th that at least three folks from Colorado […]
Not really unexpected. Hartford Insurance, however, has $12,000,000 per policy period – perhaps as much $40,000,000 total to cover claims of victims of this tragedy. Also, manufacturers like Kellogg and King Nut are morally and legally responsible for the products they manufactured and sold.
We provided this video clip to the Congressional Subcommittee investigating this Salmonella outbreak that has sickened over 640, hospitalized 150 and killed nine. Clifford’s son, Lou, offered his testimony to the Subcommittee as well. Clifford was a hero, who should not have died from eating King Nut peanut butter.
I was asked the other day by the Editors of the NYT to join in a discussion at “Room For Debate,” about a single food safety agency and to post a 300-400 word position. After whacking away at it, I finally got it down to size. Here was my original submission: Perhaps it was Nicholas […]
In the ongoing political (and legal, and historical, and economic) arguments about the regulation of social and economic activity by governments and government agencies, one of the dominant theoretical controversies has been over the answer to this question: Do regulations “interfere” with the market-place by creating unnecessary inefficiencies and higher costs, or are regulations a […]
I was honored to be in Washington DC to hear victims testify before the House subcommittee for Oversight and Investigations about the illness and death caused by tainted peanut butter. Lou Tousignant spoke about his father, who survived the Korean War with three purple hearts, only to be killed by peanut butter. Peter Hurley spoke […]