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 […]
It is good to see Dania Akkad (a.k.a “lettuce lady”) back on the E. coli beat. She covered the recent grand jury pronouncements (see full article here) More county money and effort should be spent to detect and prevent potentially fatal strains of E. coli from contaminating local produce, the 2006 Monterey County grand jury […]
Fred Minnick of QSR wrote today in his 2006 “In Review” about banning trans-fats and E. coli litigation – both of which I enjoy, but trans-fats not in as many locations. This was one year that operators didn’t necessarily have control over their own fate. Politicians debated banning trans-fats, spinach was contaminated with E. coli, […]
Linda Johnson, AP writer for New Jersey wrote over the weekend: “Industry, Government Join E. coli Fight” “In light of food poisoning outbreaks involving spinach and lettuce, the government and the produce industry are scrambling to make leafy greens safer before the spring planting season.” In fact, during the last four months of 2006, U.S. […]
Officials say Taco Bell wrapper had human blood Alex Davis of the Louisville Courier-Journal wrote “A small amount of human blood was found on the outside of a food wrapper on a woman’s order from a Taco Bell restaurant on S. Third Street, according to an investigation by the Louisville Metro Health Department.” One must […]
Interestingly I made the Puget Sound Business Journal (PSBJ) as a 2006 “fighter.” The article then made it as a post on the Bremerton Sun’s blog this morning. Making the List Also on the newsmaker list is William Marler, a Bainbridge Island resident and lawyer who has made a name for himself fighting companies over […]
I just saw this headline and excerpt from a Business Wire Press Release: Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell and Taco Bell President Greg Creed Meet for Lunch and Tour of Philadelphia Taco Bell (Business Wire)-December 27, 2006 As a further demonstration that its food is completely safe to eat, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell will visit a […]
According to a Press Release from Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. (TSX: BNC), a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, the company last week received authorization from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to distribute its E. coli O157:H7 cattle vaccine to Canadian veterinarians under a Permit to Release Veterinary Biologics as specified in the Canadian Health […]
The FDA has no specific criteria for preventing outbreaks, and experts say it doesn’t have the resources to draft such regulations. A well done article by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, LA Times Staff Writer – important excerpts: Recurring outbreaks of food-borne illness from contaminated produce are “unacceptable” in today’s society, the government says. But when it comes […]
A story that Mr. McLaughlin and Mr. Bailey have been working on over the past months on the DOLE spinach outbreak of last September. The report is the most comprehensive look at the outbreak from farm to fork – then to hospital and courtroom. They do a great job of highlightening, not only the process […]
Here are some tips for preparing traditional holiday foods safely from our friends at the Dupage County Health Department: Raw lamb or beef should be used within three to five days of purchase. Lamb and beef roasts should be cooked to an internal temperature of at 145°F to be medium rare, and 170°F for well […]
You have to love the creativity of counsel for Dole and Natural Selection Foods (NSF) in answering the complaint of a little boy frm Utah poisoned (one of at least 204 in twenty-six states – there were four deaths) by spinach NSF produced for Dole. I have picked out some of the more absurd defenses […]
Taco John’s – we have filed two suits in Federal Court in Iowa against Taco John’s. We have been contacted by 10 other Minnesota and Iowa residents and we are investigating those claims. Interestingly, at first Taco John’s seemed to deny that its restaurant in Waterloo, Iowa was implicated, but Fred Minnick’s article today seems […]
With E. coli contaminating lettuce at Taco Bell and Taco John’s sickening 150 in the last few weeks and Dole spinach poisoning over 200 with 4 deaths in September, one would tend to forget the Wendy’s E. coli outbreak in June. Here is the story: In early August 2006, public health officials in Weber County, […]
Asjylyn Loder of the St. Petersburgh Time reported today in her story “String of area E. coli cases stirs concern” about our clients’ the Lapis and the family’s struggle to fid the source of their twins E. coli-related illness. When Kim Lapi’s 9-year-old twins were hospitalized with E. coli in early November, state health officials […]