Personal Injury Law

Marler Clark Client Sues Wal-Mart Over Salmonella Saintpaul Tainted Peppers

By Bill Marler, Esq.

It is time for retailers – the “Big Boxes” – to step up and make sure their products are not the cheapest or the most profitable - that they have not squeezed the last penny out of the farmers and middlemen -  but the safest. As I said today:

"Hopefully, this lawsuit will send Wal-Mart a bit of a message that they are just as responsible as the farmer in Mexico for providing healthful food," attorney William Marler said.

Our client, Brian Grubbs' wife purchased the peppers at a Wal-Mart store in Cortez, Colo., on June 26, according to the lawsuit. Grubbs eats them raw on sandwiches and said in the suit that within a few days he began experiencing diarrhea, vomiting and nausea, among other symptoms. He also claimed that he was severely dehydrated and could not walk without assistance. The same strain of salmonella has infected more than 1,300 people over the past three months. Tests of his stool and the peppers were positive for Salmonella saintpaul, according to the lawsuit. Federal health officials on Wednesday identified jalapeño and serrano peppers from a Mexican farm as the source of the outbreak, which initially was linked to tomatoes.

Full post as published by Marler Blog on August 02, 2008 (boomark / email).