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FDA Food Safety Modernization Act - What about USDA?

Posted on August 14, 2008
I was encouraged to see this mornings Statement of CSPI Food Safety Director Caroline Smith DeWaal  regarding: The bipartisan FDA Food Safety Modernization Act would help refocus the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on preventing, rather than just reacting to, food-borne disease outbreaks...

Nebraska Beef Recalls More E. coli Contaminated Beef Product

Posted on August 14, 2008
I am sure glad FSIS made this clear: Clarification: This recall affects only certain products produced at the Nebraska Beef Ltd. company, located in Omaha. It does not relate, implicate, or otherwise affect beef in the State of Nebraska. Please note this important distinction...

More Companies Joining the 2007-2008 E. coli Recall Club

Posted on August 13, 2008
I'm having trouble keeping up with all the companies, mostly retailers, recalling E. coli-contaminated beef, mostly from Nebraska Beef.  Say, who is still buying from them?  The most recent list is: Whole Foods City Markets King Soopers Fred Meyer Renna's Meat Cub Foods Bigg's Markets Stater Brothers So, to recap, since Spring of 2007, over 44,000,000 pounds of E...

Topps Meat and Nebraska Beef - What's in Common?

Posted on August 11, 2008
OK, Topps Meat recalled 21,000,000 pounds of meat and sickened 40; Nebraska Beef has recalled only 6,500,000 pounds and sickened nearly 80.  Topps was only a grinding operation (received primals from slaughter houses from all over the world).  Nebraska Beef was a slaughter house that shipped primals and other intact cuts of meats to various further processors and grocery stores - organic and not...

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Whole Foods, Fred Meyer, City Market, King Soopers and Dorothy Lane Markets have one thing in common - Nebraska Beef and/or Coleman Natural Meats E. coli

Posted on August 11, 2008
We now know that Nebraska Beef E. coli-tainted meet found its way into Coleman Natural Meats and then to Whole Foods and Dorothy Lanes Markets.  Kroger and its subsidiaries, Fred Meyer, City Market and King Soopers seems to have taken their E. coli strait from Nebraska Beef...

E. coli Cases Linked to Nebraska Beef in cases now linked to Georgia, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Indiana, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Canada

Posted on August 11, 2008
Here we go again - Blog Release Lawsuits Build Against Nebraska Beef as New Recall is Announced A second Georgia lawsuit arising from E. coli tainted meat sourced from Nebraska Beef Ltd. was filed Friday, just as the beef processing company recalled another 1...

Marler Clark Calls on S&S Foods to Pay E. Coli Boy Scouts' Medical Bills and Parents' Lost Wages

Posted on August 10, 2008
Bill Marler, food safety advocate and E. coli attorney, whose Seattle law firm, Marler Clark, has been contacted by victims of the E. coli outbreak traced to the S&S’s hamburger recall and outbreak that has sickened at least 80 Boy Scouts, called today on S&S to pay the medical bills and lost wages of all individuals who became ill with E...

Nebraska Beef E. coli now linked to illnesses in Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Utah, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Canada - It is time from Dorothy Lane, Kroger, Whole Foods and Coleman Natural Meats make better decisions.

Posted on August 10, 2008
If I poisoned 85 people, my guess is that I would be facing serious jail time (I can see the Raw Milk and Big Beef folks dancing now).  However, if you’re a company, like Nebraska Beef, that slaughters about 2,000 head of cattle a day, employs about 800 people in Omaha and has successfully sued the USDA, rules just do not seem to apply...

Nebraska Beef, Ltd. is recalling 1,200,000 million pounds of primal cuts, subprimal cuts and boxed beef contaminated with E. coli O157:H7

Posted on August 09, 2008
USDA – FSIS Recall Release FSIS-RC-029-2008 CLASS I RECALLHEALTH RISK: HIGH WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, 2008 – Nebraska Beef, Ltd., an Omaha, Neb., establishment is recalling approximately 1.2 million pounds of primal cuts, subprimal cuts and boxed beef that may be contaminated with E...

E. coli Linked from Cow to Victims and Simsbury Town Farm Dairy

Posted on August 09, 2008
The Courant reported this morning that the Connecticut State Department of Agriculture said Friday that the E. coli outbreak that seriously sickened five people who drank raw milk from the Town Farm Dairy most likely came from one cow. The agency conducted numerous tests of the farm's cows, property and equipment and found the infection in the fecal matter of one of the cows...

Campylobacter Infection Strikes Consumers of Raw Milk in California

Posted on August 08, 2008
We have recently learned of individuals in Northern California who have become seriously ill after consuming raw cow’s milk tainted with the bacteria campylobacter.  At least one person remains hospitalized after consuming the milk and developing Guillain-Barré (ghee-yan bah-ray) syndrome (GBS)...

Whole Foods E. coli cases Traced to Nebraska Beef Ltd., Meat?

Posted on August 08, 2008
Whole Foods, paragon of the natural food marketplace, linked to an E. coli outbreak tied to Nebraska Beef Ltd.?  Goodness!  According to the Boston Globe this morning, Massachusetts health authorities are warning consumers not to eat ground beef bought from Whole Foods Markets over the last two months after seven E...

E. coli Poisoned Boy Scouts Tops 80 - Hamburger linked to Sodexo and S&S Foods - Illnesses in Virginia and Maryland

Posted on August 08, 2008
Lisa Crutchfield of the Times-Dispatch reported this morning that about 84 people who attended the camp at the reservation between July 20 and Aug. 2 have shown symptoms of the E. coli O157:H7 infection.  Twenty-five children in Northern Virginia have been lab-confirmed with the E...

UPDATE - Campylobacter Infection Strikes Consumers of Raw Milk in California

Posted on August 08, 2008
We have recently learned of individuals in Northern California who have become seriously ill after consuming raw cow’s milk tainted with the bacteria campylobacter.  At least one person remains hospitalized after consuming the milk and developing Guillain-Barré (ghee-yan bah-ray) syndrome (GBS)...

UPDATE and Confirmation - Campylobacter Infection Strikes Consumers of Raw Milk in California

Posted on August 08, 2008
We have recently learned of individuals in Northern California who have become seriously ill after consuming raw cow’s milk tainted with the bacteria campylobacter.  At least one person remains hospitalized after consuming the milk and developing Guillain-Barré (ghee-yan bah-ray) syndrome (GBS)...

E. coli-tainted Hamburger Supplied by Sodexo Tests Positive and Matches Ill Boy Scouts

Posted on August 07, 2008
The Washington Post reports this evening that “E. coli [O157:H7] found in ground beef at a Boy Scout camp in Goshen, Va., matches bacteria found in [stool] samples taken from some sick campers, lab tests have confirmed, and a state health official called beef the "prime suspect" in the outbreak that shut down the camp this week...

I call on Congress, the CDC, FSIS, Local and State Departments of Health, the Beef Industry, Retailers, Consumer Groups and University Experts to Summit on this E. coli Crisis

Posted on August 07, 2008
Since the spring of 2007, the following E. coli O157:H7, Class I Recalls have been announced - amounting to over 39,000,000 pounds – 19,500 tons - of E. coli-tainted meat being recalled. Hundreds have been sickened, many seriously.  The latest recall by S&S Meats of 153,630 pounds has been linked to as many as 70 Boy Scouts’ illnesses...

S&S Foods LLC of California Linked to Boy Scout E. coli O157:H7 Cases

Posted on August 07, 2008
I went to bed late last night waiting to confirm this recall, but it still had not shown up on the FSIS recall site - even as of this morning.  But, here it is from several reliable sources: CLASS I RECALL HEALTH RISK: HIGH S&S Foods LLC., an Azusa, Calif...

Since the Spring of 2007 39,361,718 pounds of E. coli O157:H7 Contaminated Hamburger Recalled

Posted on August 06, 2008
The wheels have come off the hamburger industry.  Since the Spring of 2007 it has sickened hundreds - the young, the old - grandma's and boy scouts.  Here are the recalls: Natural State Meat Company 1/29/07 4,240 FSIS Recall - E coliTyson Fresh Meats 3/2/07 16,743 FSIS Recall - E coliRichwood Meat Company 4/20/07 107,943 FSIS Recall - E coliHFX, Inc 4/20/07 259,230 FSIS Recall - E coliPM Beef Holdings 5/10/07 117,500 FSIS Recall - E coliDavis Creek Meats 5/11/07 129,000 FSIS Recall - E coliTyson Fresh Meats 6/8/07 40,440 FSIS Recall - E coliUnited Food Group 6/3-6/9/07 5,700,000 FSIS Recall - E coliWashington Beef 7/15/07 82,286 FSIS recall - insanitary conditionsAbbott's Meat Inc 7/21/07 26,669 FSIS Recall - E coliCustom Pack 7/25/07 5,920 FSIS Recall - E coliInterstate Meat 8/30/07 41,305 FSIS Public Health Alert - E...

American Food Safety System a "Train Wreck"

Posted on August 06, 2008
In just a year and a half, the American meat industry has experienced a whiplash of beef recalls. 40 million pounds of meat tainted with highly toxic E. coli O157:H7 has been publicly recalled, up by a staggering factor of two hundred from the 2006 amount of only 181,900 pounds...

Massachusetts, Quebec and Other States E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak - Beef Products Suspected - Again

Posted on August 04, 2008
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is investigating six cases of E. coli O157:H7 in Massachusetts residents that appear to be caused by the same strain of the bacteria found in patients from several other states. A source of contamination has not been identified; however the cluster of illnesses may be linked to the consumption of beef products...

E. coli O157:H7 Tainted Hamburger Linked to Boy Scout Illnesses in Virginia

Posted on August 04, 2008
One would think that it is a really bad idea to poison boy scouts a few hours outside of Washington DC with E. coli-tainted hamburger, but apparently not. According to press reports, Virginia Health officials confirmed today that beef taken from the Boy Scout camp in Goshen tested positive for the E...

E. coli O157:H7 Tainted Hamburger Linked to Boy Scout Illnesses in Virginia and Maryland

Posted on August 04, 2008
I love this quote: "Herndon resident Michael Monaco said his 14-year-old son, who started experiencing symptoms Friday, has had his case of E. coli confirmed by a hospital. "It's very unfortunate, and I'd like to know how the beef got contaminated," Monaco said...

As Many as 78 Goshen Reservation Scouts Sickened - 10 Hospitalized - Possibly Due to E. coli Contaminated Beef and Vegetables

Posted on August 03, 2008
I must admit I was a Boy Scout – many years ago.  I too went to scout camp, but never became ill – certainly not with E. coli O157:H7.  Now at least 18 people have fallen ill with E. coli O157:H7 infections after visiting a Scout camp in Virginia...

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

Posted on August 02, 2008
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...

Virginia Boy Scouts Sickened by E. coli O157:H7

Posted on August 02, 2008
Virginia Department of Health officials are continuing to investigate an E. coli outbreak at a popular Boy Scouts camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains that has affected 17 people so far. The officials began receiving reports of sick children Sunday, when boys from about 70 troops and some adults returned home after a week at the Goshen Scout Reservation near Lexington, VA...

Raw Goat Milk E. coli Lawsuit Filed After Infant Nearly Dies

Posted on August 01, 2008
We are proud that our client, Angela Pedersen, spoke out on local TV about her son's life-threatening illness. The Pedersen family is suing Soni Copeland and The Herb Depot and Organic Market in Monett. "It was a living hell. I wouldn't wish that upon anyone," says Pedersen...

Surprise, Surprise - E. coli in Cow Shit Cause of Simsbury Town Farm Dairy's Raw Milk Problem

Posted on August 01, 2008
Press reports today announced the obvious - Cow Shit (a.k.a fecal matter) from one cow at Town Farm Dairy farm caused five people (at least a few children) to get sick with E. coli (E. coli O157:H7), according to the state Department of Agriculture.  Department representatives said fecal matter (a...

More Sour News For Connecticut Raw Milk E. coli Dairy

Posted on August 01, 2008
The Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) and Connecticut Department of Agriculture (DOA) are investigating an outbreak of Escherichia coli O157 associated with consumption of unpasteurized milk produced at a dairy farm in Simsbury, CT.  A total of four cases have been identified; one is laboratory-confirmed as E...

PR Industry Insight: Leading food-borne illness plaintiffs' litigator Bill Marler, of Marler Clark Tells All

Posted on August 01, 2008
My phone rings – I pick it up. I had a nice chat with the folks at Levick about the PR nightmare that companies get themselves into during a foodborne illness outbreak: Attorney Bill Marler, of the Seattle-based firm Marler Clark, LLP, PS, is an accomplished personal injury lawyer and a major force affecting food safety policy in the United States and abroad...

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