The CDC reports: Shigellosis is a nationally notifiable diarrheal illness caused by gram-negative bacteria. Shigella infection is spread through fecal-oral transmission and sexual contact. Although most infections are self-limited, antibiotics are indicated for severe illness or to reduce transmission in settings with high risk for spread. Since 2015, a growing proportion of cases has been caused by […]
Barbara Kowalcyk (former client and friend), the former president of Safe Tables Our Priority (S.T.O.P.), a national grassroots organization dedicated to preventing foodborne illness, was interviewed by the Daily Record. She recently co-founded a new nonprofit, the Center for Foodborne Illness Research and Prevention (CFI). Kowalcyk and her husband, Michael, came to S.T.O.P. in late […]
Keith Roysdon of the Muncie, Indiana Star Press and I talked candidly about food safety last week. Here is part of the story: Companies, government must do more to increase food safety, expert says Attorney and food safety activist William Marler [of Marler Clark in Seattle Washington] uses an alarming comparison when urging people not […]
According to a Kansas newspaper – May is “Beef Month.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 73,000 cases of E. coli O157:H7 occur annually in the United States. Every year, 2,100 Americans are hospitalized, and 61 people die as a direct result of E. coli O157:H7 infections and its complications. A […]
From 1993 to 2002, most of the E. coli cases we did were from tainted hamburger. Since 2002, most of the E. coli case have bee linked to spinach and lettuce. Hopefully, the below reports are not a trend back in the wrong direction. Kalamazoo company recalls 129,000 pounds of beef – two sickened Davis […]
The meat company linked to an E. coli outbreak in the Twin Cities Minnesota is recalling 117,500 pounds of beef shipped to eight states, including Michigan, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. Health officials have said it appears that tainted ground beef from Lunds or Byerly’s stores sickened seven people, including three who had to […]
On May 31st, I have the opportunity to host Senator Durbin in Seattle – here is why I would – Great editorial from the pages of the Chicago Tribune: Durbin and the ‘food czar’ Used to be that the word “czar” conjured up images of dashing Russian royals and their glamorous trappings — Faberge eggs […]
Three people in the Kalamazoo area have become sickened with symptoms related to E. coli. Two of those cases came from the same genetic type of bacteria. According to Dr. Richard Tooker, the medical director of the Kalamazoo County Health Department, these cases are a different source of contamination, compared to a recall announced Friday. […]
Production was continuing at the PM Beef plant linked to seven E. coli illnesses, the company said on Thursday. PM Beef spokeswoman Lisa Hernandez said the plant is working with federal and state authorities on the matter, but in the meantime, the plant has not shut down. State health officials said seven people were sickened […]
New Pizza Outbreak Update – General Mills Totinos Pizza General Mills is the “sixth largest food company in the world” with revenues for 2007 estimated to be nearly $12,500,000,000. General Mills announced today that since July 1 of this year, it had distributed more than 120 million Totino’s and Jeno’s pizzas nationwide. Surprisingly, in light […]
We have the honor of representing several of the folks and families sickened in this needless E. coli outbreak from last summer. Below is the write-up of our investigation: In late July and early August 2006, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) received three E. coli O157:H7 stool isolates from residents of, and visitors to, […]
From a Press Release from the Minnesota State Department of Health: E. coli O157:H7 cases linked to ground beef purchased at Lunds or Byerly’s stores since mid-April – Product removed from store shelves; customers asked to return or destroy it State health and agriculture officials are investigating seven cases of E. coli O157:H7 infection in […]
Several children hospitalized following possible E. coli outbreak The Health Department is investigating what may be an E. coli outbreak that has hospitalized several children, mostly from the same Bakersfield school. Health Director Dr. B.A. Jinadu declined to name the school and said it’s not even certain the illnesses are E. coli. But six kindergarteners […]
Natalie Hoffman, of the Register wrote this moring that: Following reports early last month of E. coli infection in three Napa Valley children — who got sick from hamburger patties sold at a St. Helena Little League snack shack — Little League baseball spectators in St. Helena will no longer be able to buy a […]
Cats, dogs, pigs and now chickens Our government on Friday placed a hold on 20 million chickens raised for market in several states because their feed was mixed with pet food containing an industrial chemical. Three government agencies — the Agriculture Department, the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency — are overseeing […]
I spoke with Paul Dailing of the Chronicle yesterday about the status of the Class Action (Full Story Here). The defendants had moved to dismiss the case, claiming that my clients were not injured as a result of the restaurant allowing a Hepatitis A infected employee to work, thereby exposing some 4,000 customers to Hepatitis […]