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Food Poison Blog

Surveillance and analysis on food poison news and outbreaks.
By Marler Clark

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 12:57:03

Cheese E. coli outbreak: current status

Posted on December 08, 2010
The CDC has not updated its case summary since November 24, 2010, but it is likely that the final outbreak summary will include more than 38 confirmed cases. What we know so far: 38 ill in five states, including 19 in Arizona, 3 in California, 3 in New Mexico, 2 in Nevada, and 11 confirmed cases in Boulder, Douglas, and Arapahoe counties Colorado...

Atlas Walnut Company Recalls Walnuts for Salmonella Risk

Posted on December 07, 2010
Atlas Walnut Co. of California announced a voluntary recall of walnut halves and pieces due to the risk of Salmonella contamination. The recall was made after Azar Nut Company, which receives product from Atlas, asked U.S. Foodservice to recall the products after a shipment tested positive for Salmonella...

Scientific American on Pending Food Safety Bill

Posted on December 07, 2010
As the Food Safety Modernization Act founders in procedural hell, Katherine Harmon, has a helpful and optimistic piece on the bill in the Scientific American. Harmon provides optimistic views both on the proposed bill's chances for eventual passage, and the predicted impact of the legislation...

Harmful Bacteria In Produce Cannot Hide From New Irradiation Technology

Posted on December 06, 2010
Researchers at AgriLife Research appear to have devised a new irradiation technique that effectively kills 99.9% of harmful bacteria, such as Salmonella and E. coli, while requiring only half the usual amount of irradiation, according to an article in today's Science Daily...

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History of Hepatitis A Lawsuits

Posted on December 06, 2010
Hepatitis A is one of five human hepatitis viruses (hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E) that primarily infect the liver and cause illness. An estimated 80,000 cases occur each year in the U.S., although much higher estimates have been proposed based on mathematical modeling of the past incidence of infection...

Hepatitis A clusters in western West Virginia and eastern Kentucky

Posted on December 05, 2010
The Cabell-Huntington Health Department is currently investigating a cluster of hepatitis A cases. To date, there are (4) confirmed cases in Cabell County and health officials are doing a thorough investigation on these cases, which the health department are calling sporadic at this point...

6th case of hepatitis A in Ashland-Boyd County Kentucky

Posted on December 05, 2010
The Ashland-Boyd County Health Department has confirmed a sixth case of Hepatitis A. The fiver previous cases reported in Ashland-Boyd County included an employee of the Burger King restaurant on Winchester Avenue in Ashland. None of the cases are apparently linked to consumption of food at the restaurant, but the Ashland-Boyd County Health Department will be hosting a vaccination clinic nonetheless for people who ate products from the Burger King drive thru the week of Nov...

27 days - Mr. President, House and Senate, it is not too late to do Food Safety

Posted on December 04, 2010
Well, you only have 27 more days to fix that unconstitutional glitch in S. 510, get past Senator Coburn's filibuster, get past the Republican Senators vow to not do a thing until tax cuts for the wealthy are passed, get past either a Conference with the House over differences between S...

Why a Food Safety Bill is needed - Over 700 sickened and 9 deaths

Posted on December 04, 2010
And that was just one Salmonella Outbreak:

Thanksgiving update on cheese E. coli outbreak from CDC

Posted on November 25, 2010
Today the CDC updated its investigation summary on the Bravo Farms Gouda cheese E. coli O157:H7 outbreak. The outbreak involves a rare strain of E. coli O157:H7 that has never been seen before in the PulseNet database. Now the CDC counts 38 confirmed cases in the outbreak, all having the distinguishing strain of E...

Colorado reports 11th case in Bravo Farms cheese E. coli outbreak

Posted on November 25, 2010
The CDC reported yesterday that the case count in the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to Bravo Farms gouda cheese has increased by 1 to 38. A resident of Colorado (certainly no stranger to E. coli litigation) was the additional case, bringing the total in the state to 11 sickened by Bravo Farms cheese...

New York grocery recalls ground beef due to E. coli contamination

Posted on November 24, 2010
New York State Agriculture Commissioner today alerted consumers that Hamilton Corner Meat Market Inc., located at 1 Hamilton Place, New York, New York, is recalling all packages of in-store "ground beef" sold on November 15, 2010, due to the presence of E...

Marler Clark, The Nation's Food Safety Law Firm

Posted on November 24, 2010
Marler Clark's attorneys have the most extensive experience representing victims of food poisoning of any law firm in the United States. Our food poisoning lawyers have successfully represented thousands of victims of the largest food poisoning outbreaks across the country since 1993...

Rotolini recalled due to listeria contamination

Posted on November 23, 2010
Calabro Cheese, a East Haven, Connecticut company is recalling approximately 57 pounds of Rotolini, meat and cheese roll appetizer products, that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today...

Contamination problems at Bravo Farms force expanded recall

Posted on November 23, 2010
Listeria, this time (and E. coli O157:H7), is forcing Bravo Farms to recall cheese. Today, the company announced that it is recalling all of its cheeses. Bravo Farms sells a variety of cheeses at retail stores throughout the US, mainly on the west coast, including Gouda, Pepper Jack, Tulare Cannonball, and several different styles and flavors of Cheddar cheese...

More Jack DeCoster

Posted on November 22, 2010
This morning, Myron Levin at fairwarning.com authored one of the more insightful biographical sketches of Jack DeCoster, the Egg King whose Iowa farms have been the source of recalls of just under 1 BILLION eggs since August 2010. It's no shock, at this point, to hear about Jack's problems; harassment suits, wage and hour violations, and environmental violations seem to have been the norm at DeCoster facilities dating back to the 1990s...

Marler Clark Gives $10,000 Food Safety Scholarship to West Broward High School in Florida

Posted on November 22, 2010
West Broward High School students interested in science have new incentive to pursue higher education today. Marler Clark, the Seattle-based food safety law firm, announced a donation of $10,000 to the newly established Marler Clark – Samantha Safranek Scholarship Fund...

What's up with cheese: outbreaks and recalls in 2010

Posted on November 20, 2010
Lately, cheese has usurped the role traditionally played by fresh produce and ground beef as public enemy number 1 in the food safety battle. Maybe the level of contamination in both raw and pasteurized milk-based cheeses hasn't changed at all recently over historic levels, and the only difference is the high-profile nature of some of the recent cheese contamination events...

Walkerton study on continuing hypertension and other cardiovascular risks

Posted on November 19, 2010
Data from the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in Walkerton Canada has been mined time and again by researchers studying the long-term effects of E. coli infection, including its tendency to cause or exacerbate motility problems in the gastrointestinal tract like IBS...

More cheese recalled

Posted on November 18, 2010
With no link to the cheese E. coli outbreak, Del Bueno cheese company of Grandview, Washington is recalling all 1 and 3 pound packages of Queso Fresco Fresh Cheese, Queso Panela Fresh Cheese, Requeson Mexican Style Ricotta Cheese and Queso Enchilado Dry Cheese...

Food Safety Legislation Advances

Posted on November 18, 2010
Maybe the Republicans realized they need to eat food too? Well, at least a dozen of them did. Yesterday, the long languishing Food Safety Modernization Act was advanced by a vote of 74-25, including all of the Democratic senators. A final vote could come soon...

On foodborne Illiness, Food Poisoning and Food Safety - A Video

Posted on November 17, 2010

19 Sickened in Arizona and 10 in Colorado with E. coli-tainted Bravo Cheese

Posted on November 17, 2010
The CDC reports that thirty-seven persons infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7 have been reported from five states. The number of ill persons identified in each state with this strain is as follows: AZ (19), CA (3), CO (10), NM (3) and NV (2)...

Cheese E. coli outbreak: a study in good epidemiology

Posted on November 17, 2010
It may be only a rarity that a widely contaminated food product distributed to a major grocery chain all over an entire region of the country does not cause many severe illnesses. Even though there are at least 37 confirmed illnesses in the cheese E. coli outbreak, many people probably escaped severe illness under some relatively difficult epidemiological circumstances...

Arizona E. coli outbreak litigation

Posted on November 16, 2010
It seems like we're in Arizona a lot litigating E. coli outbreak cases. Currently, we represent numerous people from several states in the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to Costco and Bravo Farms gouda cheese, including 3 Arizona residents on whose behalf we've sued the cheesemaker...

E. coli Found in Bravo Farms Gouda Cheese Sold at Costco

Posted on November 16, 2010
The link between Bravo Farms's Dutch Style Raw Milk Gouda Cheese and an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 among at least 37 Southwest residents became even stronger today. The New Mexico Department of Health has confirmed that an intact sample of the raw milk Gouda cheese sampled and sold at numerous Costco stores has cultured positive for the outbreak strain of E...

Recent cheese recalls, outbreaks, and lawsuits

Posted on November 15, 2010
In the last several months, there have been at least four separate recalls involving cheeses produced nationally. Several, but not all of the following, involved raw milk-based cheeses; and several have resulted in lawsuits against the cheesemaker, either by the government or sick consumers...

Video - KCTS 9 Series April 16, 2010 Lead Story - How Safe is your Burger? A History of E. coli O157:H7

Posted on November 15, 2010
Here is a bit(e) of History of E. coli O157:H7 and hamburger - Jack in the Box to the present. &amp;amp;lt;br&amp;amp;gt;

Food Safety Lawyer Bill Marler on the Safety of our Food Supply - Video

Posted on November 15, 2010
Bill Marler is a national expert on foodborne illness. He has been deeply involved in issues related to food companies whose contaminated products have caused serious injury and death. His advocacy for better food regulation and his work as a lawyer has led to invitations to address local, national, and international gatherings on food safety, including recent testimony to the U...

Foods to Avoid While Pregnant

Posted on November 15, 2010
Good nutrition is of utmost importance during pregnancy. We all know that we're supposed to avoid alcohol and cigarettes while pregnant, but what about food? Here are ten foods to avoid during pregnancy. This is not an exhaustive list of all foods to be concerned about, but they are ten of the most important...

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