I asked our AI friends – What are the pros and cons of replacing FDA Commissioner Makary with me – here is the response? This is a very timely question — Makary resigned as FDA Commissioner today, May 12, 2026, amid reports of internal tensions and policy clashes, with the vaping dispute reportedly being a […]
FDA Update on Salmonella Outbreak Linked to All Peter Pan Peanut Butter and Certain Lot Numbers of Great Value Brand Peanut Butter Product testing by several states has now confirmed that Peter Pan peanut butter and certain Great Value brand peanut butter are the sources of the foodborne illness outbreak of Salmonella that began in […]
Salmonella Confirmed In Georgia Peanut Butter According to AP reports a few moments ago: A week after ConAgra Foods Inc. recalled peanut butter from its Georgia plant after a salmonella outbreak, the Center for Disease Control confirmed the presence of the dangerous germ. Opened jars from people who were sickened in New York, Oklahoma and […]
Over the last week we have responded to nearly 3,500 emails and phone calls. from people who believe that they have been sickened by contaminated peanut butter. Jason, our tech guy, built the site above – www.peanutbutterclassaction.com – to help our clients and lawyers referring cases to us (nearly 50). I hope the public finds […]
By Paula Schaap from Verditsearch Bill Marler, a litigator who specializes in representing plaintiffs who were sickened by food-borne pathogens, said he is in the enviable position of not having to prove fault. But when he explains that to food growers, packagers and distributors during settlement discussions, he often has a problem getting his adversaries […]
Since last Thursday we are in the process of responding to over 3,000 emails or phone calls for people from nearly every State and several foregin countries about salmonella-contaminated peanut butter. Our great staff and attorneys are working hard to respond to everyone as quickly as possible. We have asked people to respond to my […]
Carol M. Ostrom, Seattle Times staff reporter, spent a few hours in our office today. Below is her report: A Kent woman and a Bellingham man have filed a class-action lawsuit against a Nebraska-based food manufacturer on behalf of people sickened by Salmonella infections after eating peanut butter later recalled for contamination. James Winston Daniels […]
According to CNN Money: Warehouse club operator pulls items from shelves after routine testing BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc. said Tuesday it was recalling packages of fresh mushrooms after it a routine inspection revealed the possible presence of the deadly bacteria E. coli. The warehouse club operator said the products affected were Wellsley Farms brand fresh […]
Angela Hatcher of WSLS NewsChannel 10 reported: Area Girl Scouts are having trouble selling some of their most popular cookies because of worries over peanut butter. Danville troop leader Nancy Beasley has 17 full cases of peanut butter cookies in her living room along with 9 boxes customers have returned. The bakers that make Girl […]
Susanna Cox used to feed her two boys Wal-Mart’s Great Value store-brand peanut butter three times a week. Then they started getting sick: stomach aches, diarrhea and fevers. The kids were suffering from the classic symptoms of salmonella poisoning. “I watched them get sicker and sicker,” Cox said. “It was horrible. I laid there and […]
RECENT UPDATE FROM FDA: As of February 16, the FDA advised consumers not to eat any Peter Pan peanut butter purchased since May 2006 and not to eat Great Value peanut butter with a product code beginning with “2111” purchased since May 2006 because of risk of contamination with Salmonella Tennessee. Salmonella is a bacterium […]
The last 48 hours at Marler Clark have been interesting – we have responded to nearly 1,000 emails or phone calls (thanks to a very hardworking staff) from every part of the United States (and two foreign countries) – people do eat a lot of peanut butter – some of it was surely contaminated with […]
Dole is recalling more than six-thousand cartons of imported cantaloupes. They were distributed to wholesalers in the eastern U-S and Quebec between February fifth and February eighth. Dole says there have been no reports of illness due to the contaminated cantaloupes which were grown in Costa Rica.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KANSAS CITY MISOURI Seattle lawyer William Marler has filed a lawsuit in Kansas City for a Missouri family that became sick after eating peanut butter. William Marler says the lawsuit filed today in federal court is the first in the salmonella outbreak that has sickened nearly 300 people in 39 states. Brian […]
SPRINGFIELD, MO – A Salmonella lawsuit was filed Friday in United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri against ConAgra, the Omaha, Nebraska-based food company whose Georgia peanut butter plant has been traced as the source of a Salmonella outbreak that sickened hundreds. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Buchannan County, Missouri, […]
We received nearly 350 calls and emails today from people sickened by the above product. We are filing suit against Con Agra in the morning. In my spare time I penned the following Op-ed with my friend Paul Nunes: Produce processors need to clean up their act By PAUL V. NUNES and WILLIAM MARLER 2/15/2007 […]