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 […]
According to a breaking AP story: Young E. coli victim improves, could leave intensive care A girl hospitalized with an E. coli infection after eating at a restaurant was expected to be transferred out of intensive care by the weekend, a hospital spokeswoman said Friday. The 12-year-old girl was one of 10 people sickened by […]
Authorities say three more cases of E, coli have been identified among customers of an Orange County restaurant, bringing the number of people sickened to ten. The Orange County Health Agency says interviews with all ten people confirmed they ate at a restaurant in Lake Forest on March 23rd or 24th. The agency says officials […]
See post at www.salmonellablog.com According to Associated Press reports: ConAgra spokeswoman Stephanie Childs said the company traced the Salmonella outbreak to three incidents in its Sylvester, Ga., plant last August. The plant’s roof leaked during a rainstorm and the sprinkler system went off twice because of a faulty sprinkler, which was repaired. The moisture from […]
What is Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS)? Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) (see www.about-hus.com) is a severe, life-threatening complication of an E. coli O157:H7 bacterial infection (see www.about-ecoli.com). Although most people recover from an E. coli O157:H7 infection, about 5-10% of infected individuals goes on to develop HUS. Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome was first described in 1955, and […]
Since the news first broke of E. coli illnesses tied to an Orange County buffet-type restaurant, we have received several calls from folks who believe that they have been sickened. We are investigating those claims. When I first heard about an E. coli outbreak tied to a buffet-restaurant, I must admit I was not too […]
The Orange County Register reports that a restaurant and the Orange County Health Department try to pinpoint origin of illness The restaurant, a San Diego-based salad-bar chain, is cooperating with Orange County health officials who are trying to pinpoint the food that caused six children and one adult to get sick after eating at a […]
Susan Salisbury staff writer of the Palm Beach Post wrote an article published on Monday, April 02, 2007 – excerpts below The crusading journalist Upton Sinclair stunned the nation in 1906 with his book The Jungle, which exposed deplorable, dangerous conditions in the slaughterhouses of Chicago. Later that year, Congress acted, and the rules it […]
Peep, chirp, quack! one chick just hatched Th CDC warns the public of the risk of Salmonella being transferred from chicks to humans. Why parents should think twice before giving baby birds for Easter: Easter brings to mind brightly colored eggs, baskets full of candy, and large chocolate bunnies. Traditions associated with the Easter season […]
I spent Tuesday (beginning at 7:00 AM in 40 degree weather) with Dr. Sanjay Gupta and a camera crew from CNN traveling around Salinas and San Juan Bautista investigating the cause of the 2006 Dole Spinach E. coli Outbreak. I found Dr. Gupta very well informed and fair in his questions (probably because his wife […]
Alex Pulaski of the Portland Oregonian had been working on the following piece for the last several weeks: When something goes terribly wrong with peanut butter, lettuce or spinach, Bill Marler starts adding telephone lines to handle calls pouring into his Seattle office. Marler has emerged as the country’s preeminent plaintiff’s lawyer in food-borne-illness cases. […]
Dateline takes a look at problems in food safety. What’s behind last year’s rash of E. coli outbreaks? And is there anything the FDA can do to safeguard our produce? See Video One victim’s story Michelle Matthews of Eagle Creek, Utah, and her 2-year-old daughter Arabella both became seriously ill from spinach in early Sept. […]
E. coli probe fails to solve outbreak – Mission Ranch officially named as source By Dawn Withers, The Salinas Californian Bill Marler, a Seattle-based attorney representing 93 people sickened from the outbreak, said he will decide in the next few weeks whether to add the three other farms to his lawsuits, which already target Mission […]
State and federal health departments have identified a ranch in San Benito County as the likely source of a recent E. coli outbreak in spinach that killed three people and sickened more than 200. Authorities for the first time say the E. coli contamination originated from the Paicines Ranch in San Benito County. The ranch […]
“This industry is only as strong as its weakest link,” said attorney Bill Marler, who is representing 93 of the outbreak victims. “The next time there is an outbreak, the whole industry is going to take a hit, not just the farmer who didn’t sign the agreement.” Garance Burke of the Fresno Associated Press today […]
By Clarissa Kell-Holland, staff writer of Land Line: Defending victims of food-borne illnesses – like E. coli – has been attorney Bill Marler’s focus since 1993, now he has a new perspective on how hauling potentially contaminated loads of produce and the lack of federal regulations affects truckers. How long can the produce industry continue […]