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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

The year started bad, but . . .

Posted on August 24, 2010
Wright County Egg's August 13 and 18 recall, and Hillandale Farms' August 20 recall, of over half a billion eggs combined, and the Salmonella outbreak that has occurred in the collective recalls' wake, have dominated the food safety news lately...

E. coli Illnesses Linked to Northwest Michigan Fair

Posted on August 24, 2010
Officials with Grand Traverse County Health Department have reported three probable cases of Shigatoxin-producing E.coli in the past week. Information was not provided on the specific strain, but the most common pathogenic strain of the bacteria is E...

17 Years of Salmonella Outbreak Litigation

Posted on August 24, 2010
During this Egg Salmonella Outbreak, I have been asked more than once about our experience handling Salmonella Lawsuits. We have compiled quite a list over at Marler Clark. Salmonella is one of the most common enteric (intestinal) infections in the United States...

Salmonella Vaccine: Might It Prevent Future Egg Outbreaks?

Posted on August 24, 2010
While details on the full magnitude of the nationwide Wright County Egg recall and related Salmonella enteritidis outbreak continue to unfold, the conversation on prevention has begun. One such preventative measure being discussed involves vaccinations...

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Potential Hepatitis A Exposure Reported at NY State Deli

Posted on August 23, 2010
Health officials in Westchester County, New York, have issued public warnings about possible Hepatitis A exposures at the J and D Deli in Ossining, New York. The potential exposures reportedly occurred between July 26 and August 9...

Zemco Industries recalls deli meats for Listeria contamination

Posted on August 23, 2010
Zemco Industries, a Buffalo, N.Y., establishment, is recalling approximately 380,000 pounds of deli meat products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today...

Danielson Family of Minnesota Link to Hillandale Egg Salmonella Recall

Posted on August 22, 2010
550,000,000 eggs and 1,300 ill and KARE TV Minneapolis reports on this impact on one family – the Danielsons. Todd Danielson, said, "Everybody had diarrhea. That was kind of the first thing, and then headaches and then throwing up and then it was body aches...

Hillandale and Wright County Egg: The Connection Grows

Posted on August 22, 2010
The link between Hillandale and Wright County Egg was made clearer this morning by Mary Clare Jalonick of the Associated Press who reported that both businesses "share suppliers of chickens and feed as well as ties to an Iowa business routinely cited for violating state and federal law...

Salmonella Egg Outbreak: the facts so far

Posted on August 22, 2010
Over 500,000,000 eggs have been recalled due to potential contamination by Salmonella enteritidis. The recalls have been initiated by two apparently distinct corporations, Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms, although reports certainly suggest that the two companies have close ties, including part of their egg production operations...

Nuts and sprouts recalled due to salmonella risk

Posted on August 21, 2010
Eggs have garnered the lion's share of attention recently, but with 2010 being such a salmonella dominated year in terms of food safety events, not surprising that two other common culprits have again been recalled due to salmonella contamination...

Wright County Egg Owner Has Long History of Violations

Posted on August 21, 2010
Against a backdrop of a recall of 380 million eggs and thousands of Salmonella illnesses nationwide, numerous commentators have been pointing out the long history of violations amassed by Wright County Egg owner Jack DeCoster. Yesterday ABC news reported on DeCoster's past...

Nation's largest egg producer adds 9.6 million eggs to recall

Posted on August 21, 2010
In what may be part of the rolling recall in the wake of the half billion egg recall by Hillandale Farms and Wright County Egg company, the nation's largest egg seller, Cal-Maine Foods Inc., has recalled 9.6 million eggs (800,000 dozen) due to potential Salmonella enteritidis contamination...

Do you know where your eggs come from?

Posted on August 21, 2010
The half billion egg recall is fast turning into one of those situations that's almost to incredible to believe. Alec MacGillis at the Washington Post profiled the DeCoster family, founders of Wright County Egg, today in his article titled "Before salmonella outbreak, egg firm had long record of violations...

William Marler Oped - If I were a CEO of the Salmonella Egg producer, what would I do?

Posted on August 21, 2010
Imagine that the phone call comes or an email pops into your inbox--"Sir, we have been contacted by (you pick: CDC, FDA, USDA, or a state or local health department), and they say your product (lettuce, raw milk, a frozen dinner or now eggs) has been linked to illnesses...

So, in the middle of a 380,000,000 Salmonella Egg Recall, what is the government thinking

Posted on August 20, 2010
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Utah Quiznos hepatitis A update

Posted on August 20, 2010
A suspected hepatitis A outbreak at a Salt Lake City, Utah Quizno's location has prompted a warning by the Salt Lake Valley Health Department to customers exposed at the restaurant to get an injection of immune globulin (IG) or hepatitis A vaccine as soon as possible...

Hepatitis A exposures at Salt Lake City Quiznos restaurants

Posted on August 20, 2010
The Salt Lake Valley Health Department is issuing a Hepatitis A health alert for people who ate at a Salt Lake City Quizno's restaurant on August 6 or 7. Patrons of the Quizno's at 30 East Broadway (300 South) on August 6 or 7 are urged to get an injection of immune globulin (IG) or hepatitis A vaccine as soon as possible...

1,953 more reasons to pass food safety legislation

Posted on August 20, 2010
Though careful to point out the possibility that not all have been confirmed as part of the egg outbreak, the CDC now counts 1,953 people who have been confirmed for the same strain of Salmonella enteritidis as the one involved in the Salmonella egg outbreak since May of this year--though the real number of victims may be in the tens of thousands...

Salmonella: one victim's story

Posted on August 20, 2010
In the midst of a massive Salmonella outbreak and egg recall, CNN reporter Elizabeth Landau's thoughts turned to the human toll that Salmonella infection can have. Ms. Landau spoke with our client, Barb Pruitt, who, at age 41, had several feet of her small intestine surgically removed as a result of a severe salmonella infection...

Minnesote Updates - Shell Eggs and Salmonella Enteritidis

Posted on August 20, 2010
August 20, 2010 update on Salmonella outbreak and multi-state egg recall. Illnesses in at least seven additional people in Minnesota have been connected with an expanded multi-state recall of eggs from an Iowa producer due to contamination with Salmonella...

Another Iowa Egg Recall due to Salmonella

Posted on August 20, 2010
From an FDA Press release today: Hillandale Farms of Iowa is voluntarily recalling shell eggs because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. Salmonella is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems...

April North Carolina Salmonella Illnesses Tied to Wright County Egg

Posted on August 20, 2010
Nearly 80 reported cases of Salmonella in Durham, North Carolina this past April are ultimately related to the nationwide outbreak due to contaminated eggs sold by Wright County Egg, of Iowa. In a report dated July 9, 2010, the state Health Department concluded that the illnesses resulted from a contaminated commercial pasteurized egg white product used in meringue on desserts...

What's the public temperature on final kill steps in food?

Posted on August 20, 2010
Today, the monolithic recall of eggs due to salmonella contamination grew even bigger. Hillandale Farms, of Iowa (like Wright County Egg Co.), voluntarily recalled 170 million eggs that it sent to 14 states, stating that 'laboratory-confirmed illnesses' had been associated with the eggs...

So, why is Denmark better than the USA - with Chickens and Eggs and Salmonella?

Posted on August 19, 2010
Denmark has been successful in the control of Salmonella Enteriditis in broiler chickens, layer hens, and pigs through careful surveillance, culling, farm sanitation, pasteurization, and sanitary slaughter. Denmark has now has the safest eggs in the world...

Umpqua Dairy Salmonella Outbreak - Oregon

Posted on August 19, 2010
They just keep coming. Today is the announcement by Oregon health officials of 23 Salmonella infections linked to dairy products from the Umpqua Dairy in Oregon. Two of those ill have been hospitalized, according to this report...

FDA: Urgent Nationwide Egg Recall - Eggs in Their Shells May Put Consumers at Risk for Salmonella

Posted on August 19, 2010
FDA NEWS RELEASE Fast Facts: The current recall of eggs in their shells, or 'shell eggs,' is part of an ongoing and intensive investigation by local, state, and federal officials into the cause of recent cases of Salmonella Enteritidis. This recall affects shell eggs produced by Wright County Egg of Galt, Iowa...

Egg Outbreak Update: growing numbers and consumer information

Posted on August 19, 2010
The CDC released a graphic today that is a striking illustration of both the size of the egg outbreak, as well as the increase in Salmonella enteritidis illnesses nationally over the baseline level in the last five years: What's really scary is that, as recently as late July, the green bars were still about 3/4 as high as they were during the peak times of late June and early July, with many illnesses surveilled in the month of August certainly yet to be reported...

President Obama does "recess appointment" of Elisabeth Hagen for Under Secretary for Food Safety, Department of Agriculture

Posted on August 19, 2010
Dr. Elisabeth Hagen is currently the USDA's Chief Medical Officer, serving as an advisor to USDA mission areas on a wide range of human health issues. Prior to her current post, she was a senior executive in the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), where she played a key role in developing and executing the agency's scientific and public health agendas...

Salmonella Enteritidis Outbreak in Eggs linked to llnesses in California, Colorado, Minnesota, Arizona, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, North Carolina, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Texas

Posted on August 18, 2010
228,000,000 Eggs Recalled Thousands Likely Sickened First Lawsuit Filed FDA is collaborating with Federal and state partners to investigate a nationwide increase of Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) infections. Partners include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U...

Eggs and Salmonella: a long-standing public health problem

Posted on August 18, 2010
Salmonella Enteritidis and Shell Eggs: Salmonella contamination of eggs is an important public health problem in the United States. Salmonella contamination of eggs by serotype enteritidis--the strain involved in the massive Salmonella outbreak and recall associated with eggs from Wright County Egg--more specifically, was formerly a problem that occurred most frequently in the northeastern United States, but now illness caused by S...

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