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 […]
Chicago Sun Times reported this morning that City Health Department officials ordered a restaurant to stop serving hummus Friday as the number of people reporting getting ill from the eatery’s food tripled to 378. The complaints are from people who say they ate at a Pars Cove booth at Taste of Chicago, which ended Sunday.Officials […]
The CDC yesterday announced that the number of ill has risen to 60. At last count, 31 children have retained us. Last week Minnesota State Health Department released that a sample of Veggie Booty tested positive for Salmonella Wandsworth by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. Also in a press release from Roberts American Gourmet, the […]
India, Mexico Ahead Of China On Food Products Rejected By U.S. Official records show that India and Mexico top the list of countries whose defective food products are rejected by the United States. Surprisingly, China, which is being hammered for defective food exports to the United States, comes only third in the list available from […]
Ordeal leaves family wary – Local couple troubled about food safety after kids’ illness from snack Cathleen Crowley, of the Albany Times Union, met with our clients, the Scheel family yesterday to see how consumers feel about being poisoned by food that is supposed to be healthy, The Scheels buy the best groceries for their […]
Outbreak reaches 19; lawyer [Bill Marler] predicts ground beef most likely source Steve Doyle of the Huntsville Times and I spoke for over an hour on Wednesday about E. coli O157:H7 as a foodborne bacteria generally and specifically on the impacts on a community like Huntsville when the bacteria strikes. Although lettuce served at Little […]
Andrew Bridges of AP Washington again breaks more on the Veggie Booty Salmonella Wandsworth case: A New Jersey spice importer supplied the salmonella-contaminated seasoning used on snack food that has sickened 60 people, most of them infants and toddlers, the company recalling the snacks said Thursday. Robert’s American Gourmet Inc. purchased the seasoning from Atlantic […]
To date we have been retained by 29 families of 32 ill children. Hopefully, we are seeing the end of the increasing number of ill people. We have filed one lawsuit thus far in Federal Court in New York. Public health officials in OutbreakNet (the network of epidemiologists and other public health officials, facilitated by […]
Officials: Lettuce likely caused E. coli outbreak in north Alabama Health officials say shredded lettuce served at a Huntsville restaurant was probably the source of an E. coli bacteria outbreak that has sickened 18 people in the past week. All signs point to lettuce served by Little Rosie’s Taqueria as the probable culprit. Three remain […]
According to the Hunstville Times, three people who have eaten bacteria-tainted lettuce at a popular Huntsville restaurant (Little Rosie’s) are suffering kidney failure, a top Madison County health official said today. Five-year-old Samuel Coggin of Meridianville was scheduled to start dialysis Tuesday evening at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Two female victims also remain hospitalized with […]
Steve Doyle of the Huntsville Times has been taking a crash course on E. coli O157:H7. It also appears that many of the Little Rosie’s customers have become extremely ill – several developing HUS. His story this morning points to the difficulty at times in pinpointing the actual source of a bacterial illness. The headline […]
China today executed the former head of its food and drug watchdog agency, who had become a symbol of the country’s wide-ranging problems on product safety. Zheng Xiaoyu’s execution was confirmed by State Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman Yan Jianyang at a news conference held to highlight efforts to improve China’s track record on food […]
The Huntsville Times reported on the expanding outbreak linked to Little Rosie’s Taqueria. Eight more people have tested positive for the potentially deadly foodborne illness, bringing the total to 15. Most of the victims are children or young adults. Five people remain hospitalized: two each at Huntsville Hospital and Crestwood Medical Center; and one at […]
Sitting in airports (in Dallas on my way to visit a client) gives you time to read. Ya’ll (tip to the South) should all pick up this week’s Newsweek. At least 300 million Chinese citizens—roughly the same number as the entire U.S. population—suffer from food-borne diseases annually, according to a recent report by the Asian […]
Since resolving the tragic cases of three wrongful deaths related to the Dole Spinach outbreak of 2006 in late March 2007, we have settled an additional twenty-six cases involving non-HUS victims over the last few weeks. Lawyers and insurance carriers for Dole, Natural Selection Foods and Mission Organic have participated in a series of meetings […]
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Canada Safeway are warning the public not to consume the fresh and frozen ground beef products listed below because the products may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 bacteria. The following products are affected by this alert: Safeway Fresh ground beef (lean, regular, extra lean and market trim). […]