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Covers news, issues and developments in food safety law.
By Pritzker, Ruohonen & Associates

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Last Entry: November 15, 2009 at 09:12:07

Ohio Kale Listeria Warning Issued After Positive Test

Posted on November 15, 2009
Kale from a farm in Oxnard, California, tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes when examined by the Ohio Department of Agriculture, prompting the state to issue a health advisory for consumers to avoid a certain batch of the leafy greens. The potentially contaminated Kale in question comes in 10-ounce bags of branded "Cut n'Clean Greens" from San Miguel Produce Inc...

Research on Long-Term Effects of E. coli HUS

Posted on November 14, 2009
When a person is victimized by E. coli HUS food poisoning, the acute phase of disease is normally highlighted by about seven days of extremely painful diarrhea, which turns bloody in 80 percent of cases. This symptom is severe enough in many cases to require hospitalization, with patients often treated for dehydration...

Ground Beef E coli Outbreak from California to Maine

Posted on November 03, 2009
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that a total of 28 people in 12 states have been sickened by the same strains of E. coli O157:H7 in a ground beef outbreak associated with hamburger meat from Fairbank Farms in Ashville, N...

New England Ground Beef E coli Outbreak and Recall

Posted on October 31, 2009
A cluster of E. coli O157:H7 illnesses in Massachusetts, Maine and Connecticut have been associated with fresh ground beef made in New York and sold in meat cases at Trader Joes, Price Chopper, Shaw's, BJ's, Ford Brothers and Giant stores...

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E. coli Probed at Sponsel's MN Harvest Petting Zoo

Posted on October 30, 2009
In petting zoo E. coli outbreaks, the primary mode of transmission is from feces of an animal to the mouth of the person by unconscious hand-to-mouth contact. That's because animal fur, skin, saliva and living areas can become contaminated with fecal germs...

Supplier Of E. coli Ground Beef Announces Recall

Posted on October 27, 2009
The Centers for Disease Control has associated the Lincoln Middle School E. coli outbreak in Rhode Island with contaminated ground beef served at Camp Bournedale during a school trip. The camp and meat supplier, South Shore Meats Inc., are both located in Massachusetts...

Petting Zoo Ecoli HUS Strikes Minnesota Boy, Age 3

Posted on October 24, 2009
A 3-year-old boy who was sickened by an E. coli O157:H7 infection after visiting an apple orchard and petting zoo in the greater area of Minneapolis-St. Paul has been released from the hospital after being treated for a life-threatening complication known as hemolytic uremic syndrome, or HUS...

Hamburger Caused Lincoln School E coli Outbreak

Posted on October 24, 2009
The Lincoln Middle School E. coli outbreak at Camp Bournedale in Plymouth, Massachusetts, was caused by contaminated ground beef that was not cooked properly for a meal of hamburgers. That's what camp owner and director Arnie Gerson told news reporter Rich Harbert after state and federal health officials finished their investigation of what food sickened a group of sixth graders who were on a three-day visit from Lincoln, Rhode Island, earlier this month...

Texas E. coli beef recall by Culebra Meat Market

Posted on October 22, 2009
A commercial meat market in San Antonio, Texas, is recalling 4,000 pound of beef cuts that could be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The recalled meat from Culebra Meat Market was distributed earlier this month to restaurants around San Antonio and to at least one of the company's retail stores...

Lincoln Middle School E coli Outbreak Rhode Island

Posted on October 22, 2009
The USDA, CDC and Massachusetts Department of Public Health are investigating what food may have caused the Lincoln Middle School E. coli outbreak during a school trip to Camp Bournedale in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Fifteen students who attended the camp October 13-16 reported getting diarrhea -- a prime symptom of E...

Botulism Fears Prompt Baby Food Recall

Posted on October 21, 2009
Plum Organics, a California maker of baby food, is recalling a batch of Apple & Carrot Portable Pouch products because there is a risk of contamination from the bacteria clostridium botulinum, which can cause botulism. The recall covers 4.22-ounce containers of the food, which were sold nationally at Toys-R-Us and Babies-R-Us retail stores...

Cargill Is Second Meatpacker to Recall Beef Tongues

Posted on October 18, 2009
Cargill Corp. is the second meatpacking company in a week to recall beef tongues that may not have had tonsils completely removed. The recall announcement by USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service is Class II, meaning it's a health hazard situation where there's only a remote possibility of adverse health consequences...

Vatrans Sausage Recalled Sold Without Inspection

Posted on October 17, 2009
A food company from Tracy, California, sold 11,500 pounds of various sausage combinations without ever having the meat inspected. Now the USDA has announced a recall of the meat, some of which was sold last spring. The sausage from Vatran's Fine Foods Inc...

Meatpacker Recalls 16 Tons of Beef Tongues

Posted on October 16, 2009
Omaha meatpacker J.F. O'Neill Packing Co. is recalling 33,000 pounds of beef tongues packed between July 1 and October 8. The tongues may not have had tonsils completely removed, which is not compliant with USDA regulations that require their removal...

Listeria Sandwich Maker Fisher Rex May Have Closed

Posted on October 15, 2009
A family owned sandwich maker from Raleigh, North Carolina, has stopped production and may have shut down -- at least temporarily -- in the wake of a Listeria monocytogenes finding by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Fisher Rex Sandwich Co...

New York Senator Calls for 'E. coli Eradication Act'

Posted on October 14, 2009
You can add U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York to the list of federally elected officials who are gung-ho about reforming America's faltering food safety system -- a system that we here at Pritzker Olsen Attorneys have been decrying for years as we represent victim after victim of food poisoning...

Company Recalls Michigan Salmonella Sprouts

Posted on October 14, 2009
A food company based in Ionia, Michigan, has pulled its sprouts from the market in response to the state's investigation of a sprouts Salmonella outbreak that has sickened at least twelve people. Lansing television station WLNS is reporting that Living Foods Inc...

Listeria Prompts Recall of Baking Classics Nuts

Posted on October 12, 2009
The Elgin, Illinois, company that makes Baking Classics brand nuts is recalling two products over concerns they could possibly be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. In a news release, John B. Sanfilippo & Son Inc. said no illnesses have been reported in connection with the recalls of 2-ounce bags of Baking Classics brand Mr...

MI Sprouts Salmonella Outbreak Hits in 7 Counties

Posted on October 10, 2009
Two Michigan residents have been hospitalized and 10 others sickened in a MI Salmonella Sprouts outbreak that has prompted a public health warning. State and local health and agriculture officials are working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to determine the precise source of the sprouts Salmonellosis outbreak...

WI Raw Milk Outbreak Could Lead to Criminal Charges

Posted on September 30, 2009
State and county officials in Wisconsin are considering whether criminal charges should be filed against a family farm in Elkhorn that sold raw milk associated with a Wisconsin raw milk Campylobacter outbreak. Walworth County Assistant District Attorney Zeke Wiedenfeld told the Janesville Gazette newspaper that it's a crime in Wisconsin to sell raw milk...

Research Discovers How Listeria Travels Cell to Cell

Posted on September 28, 2009
Researchers from Canada, the United States and Germany have learned howListeria monocytogenes spreads inside a person's body -- a discovery they hope will inform new approaches to keep the foodborne pathogen in check. According to Exchangemagazine.com, University of Toronto professor Scott Gray-Owen led a team of scientists from his own university, the University of Central Florida and the University of Wurzburg, Germany...

Family Acted Quickly in Memphis BBQ Salmonella

Posted on September 26, 2009
When an outbreak of Salmonella hit the Harston Family Reunion this summer in Memphis, Tennessee, organizers Toby and Shandalin Taylor called Fred Pritzker, founder and president of national food safety law firm PritzkerOlsen attorneys...

Food Poisoning Lawyer Shares Expert Opinions

Posted on September 23, 2009
Top executives from U.S. produce companies gathered at separate conventions this summer in Monterey, California, and Austin, Texas, to hear PritzkerOlsen principal Elliot Olsen tell them how an outbreak of foodborne illness can put a company out of business in 24 hours...

Report: School Lunch Food Poison Recalls Ineffective

Posted on September 22, 2009
After 40 years of administering the nation's school lunch program, you would think the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service would have a streamlined, fail-proof, highly technological and effective system for recalling potentially contaminated food items it provides for 31 million school children across the country...

35 Sick in WI Raw Milk Campylobacter Outbreak

Posted on September 16, 2009
A Wisconsin Campylobacter raw milk outbreak that hospitalized one person and sickened 34 others was caused by contaminated raw milk sold under a cow share program by Zinniker Family Farm of Elkhorn, Wisconsin. That's what the Food Safety Division of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection reported today in a news release...

Shredded Lettuce Salmonella Outbreak Suspected

Posted on September 14, 2009
A Salmonella outbreak that may have been caused by shredded lettuce sickened at least 124 people nationwide, but the outbreak has subsided and investigators may never pinpoint the cause. That is the report out of Oregon today in a story produced by reporter Lynne Terry of The Oregonian...

Alas, Another Peanut Product Salmonella Recall

Posted on September 12, 2009
Just when you thought the world was safe from contaminated peanuts, a Michigan candy maker has thrown another log on the peanut product Salmonella recall and outbreak fire that started almost one year ago with the first traces of matching illnesses later linked to Peanut Corporation of America...

Burrito Listeria Recall in Butcher Boy brand

Posted on September 12, 2009
A ton of individually wrapped burritos -- none of which have individual package coding -- are under Listeria recall by a California food company after the product was shipped to a Minnesota warehouse for further distribution. The burrito recall, announced Friday, was spurred by the company's own finding of Listeria monocytogenes -- a potentially deadly bacterium in a batch of "Butcher Boy Red Chile Beef and Been Burritos'' made August 3 at the Riverside, California, plant of Windsor Foods...

Two Tri Cities Child E. coli Cases Investigated

Posted on September 11, 2009
Health officials in the Tri Cities area of northeast Tennessee are investigating the cause of two life-threatening child E. coli cases in the past month. Both children are being treated at Johnson City Medical Center, where one is in pediatric intensive care and another was scheduled late this week to receive a blood transfusion...

Canned Soup Recalled for Underprocessing

Posted on September 09, 2009
Bay Valley Foods LLC of Pittsburgh is recalling 6,490 pounds of Stater Bros. brand "Chunky Grilled Steak with Vegetables" soup after the company discovered it was possibly underprocessed when made last November. The soup recall, announced by the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), is categorized as carrying a high health risk...

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