Personal Injury Law

Wright County and Hillandale Eggs Sicken 1,813 with Salmonella Enteritidis

Posted on October 20, 2010
In July 2010, CDC identified a nationwide sustained increase in the number of Salmonella Enteritidis isolates with PFGE pattern JEGX01.0004 uploaded to PulseNet, the national subtyping network made up of state and local public health laboratories and federal food regulatory laboratories that performs molecular surveillance of foodborne infections...

FSIS Forces Recall of Salmonella Pork

Posted on October 20, 2010
The Murphy House, a Louisburg, N.C. establishment, is recalling approximately 4,920 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) pork barbeque products that may be contaminated with Salmonella, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today...

Minnesota and Wisconsin, States seemingly awash in E. coli and Salmonella

Posted on October 18, 2010
I am heading to Wisconsin via Minnesota in the morning and it got me thinking just how much of my law practice (specifically E. coli and Salmonella cases) over the years has centered on these two states in the upper midwest. E. coli AFG / Supervalu E...

FDA Authorizes Hillandale Farms to Begin Shipping Fresh Shell Eggs

Posted on October 18, 2010
And, the guy who took the fifth gets to keep shipping eggs?  The FDA is releasing a letter sent to Hillandale Farms of Hampton, Iowa, dated October 15, 2010. Hillandale Farms is one of two companies that recalled eggs in August 2010. This letter authorizes Hillandale Farms to ship eggs to the table market from three of its egg-producing houses...

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FDA Sends Warning Letter to "Quality Egg"

Posted on October 18, 2010
Quality Egg still does not seem to get it. According to Bloomberg News, Quality Egg LLC, the producer tied to a salmonella recall, may face U.S. enforcement action unless it fixes health violations at its facilities, regulators said. Conditions that may cause salmonella weren't addressed when regulators inspected Galt, Iowa-based Quality Egg's facilities Aug...

Good deeds, but also good marketing

Posted on October 17, 2010
Food Safety News and the Foodborne Illness Outbreak Database turned a year old a few weeks ago. Like most of the things I do in life, both of them began out of an attempt to do good deeds that fortuitously also became good marketing. What do I mean by that? Let me give you a peek into my philosophy of life and work...

Law firm (Marler Clark) in PCA case donates $25,000 for scholarships at Heritage

Posted on October 15, 2010
I spoke with Dave Thompson of the Lynchburg News and Advance about our decision to donate $25,000 to Heritage High for Science Scholarships.  Here is his story: One of the legal firms that filed suit on behalf of victims in the Peanut Corp. of America salmonella case has donated $25,000 for scholarships to Heritage High School...

Marler Clark - The Food Safety Law Firm

Posted on October 15, 2010
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One year later LD Stidham and wife fight Salmonella together

Posted on October 14, 2010
KFVS TV 12 reports that more than a year after being stricken by a Salmonella infection, a Mississippi County man is taking encouraging steps toward his recovery. Stidham spends an hour a day, three to four times a week, trying to regain what a Salmonella infection took away...

Marler's free range (somewhat) chickens

Posted on October 14, 2010
The six chickens (all do have names) have been in the Coop de' Ville (I stopped counting when the capital costs exceeded $5,000) for over a week and they (no roosters) seem to be adjusting well despite being fenced in with wired that goes underground over a foot (coyote and racoon prevention) and with a net covering (discourage eagles)...

Non-E. coli O157:H7 STECS: What You Need To Know?

Posted on October 14, 2010
So, said the headline in my favorite online magazine – Cattlenetworks yesterday. What the American Meat Institute thinks you need to know: On August 18, AMI sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Vilsack outlining a path FSIS should take to address nSTECs prior to making a regulatory decision...

October 17-20, 2010 Food Microbiology Symposium

Posted on October 13, 2010
I usually sneak in and out of towns as I give food safety speeches. Apparently, however, River Falls had a slow news day when they reported on the Symposiun - Current Concepts In ?Foodborne Pathogens and ?Rapid and Automated Methods ?in Food Microbiology...

The History of Salmonella Outbreak Litigation

Posted on October 12, 2010
Salmonella is one of the most common enteric (intestinal) infections in the United States. Salmonellosis (the disease caused by Salmonella) is the second most common foodborne illness after Campylobacter infection. It is estimated that 1.4 million cases of salmonellosis occur each year in the U...

E. coli Outbreak Litigation - $500,000,000 Recovered in 18 Years

Posted on October 12, 2010
E. coli O157:H7 was identified for the first time at the CDC in 1975, but it was not until seven years later, in 1982, that E. coli O157:H7 was conclusively determined to be a cause of enteric disease. Following outbreaks of foodborne illness that involved several cases of bloody diarrhea, E...

It has been one year since we filed the Petition for an Interpretive Rule Declaring enterohemorrhagic Shiga Toxin-producing Serotypes of Escherichia coli, Including Non-O157 Serotypes, to be Adulterants Within the Meaning of 21 U.S.C. § 601(m)(1)

Posted on October 11, 2010
As those who follow my blog (and can stand the too frequent updates) know, the CDC estimates that "non-O157 STECs (like O26, O45, 0103, O111, O121, and O145) cause 36,700 illnesses, 1,100 hospitalizations and 30 deaths in America each year.' And, with the outbreak of E...

The Ohio State - No. 1 in Football and Raw Milk?

Posted on October 11, 2010
Or, is this a way to get me more clients? The researchers in the Ag Department at The Ohio State University posted a press release last week – 'Volunteers Needed for Milk Study in Columbus, Wooster.' Apparently, the researchers believe that '[m]ore people are choosing to drink raw milk these days, and Ohio State University researchers are hoping to find out why...

What is Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)?

Posted on October 11, 2010
We have been working over the last several months updating and expanding our about websites. Here is the content for our most recent work What is Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)? Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is one of a spectrum of common functional gastrointestinal disorders...

Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome After an Escherichia coli O111 Outbreak

Posted on October 11, 2010
If anyone had a doubt at how deadly and dangerous certain non-E. coli O157:H7's can be, read on: Emily W. Piercefield, MD, DVM, MS, MPH; Kristy K. Bradley, DVM, MPH; Rebecca L. Coffman, RN, MPH; Sue M. Mallonee, RN, MPH Arch Intern Med. 2010;170(18):1656-1663...

Hinderwadel's Grove Mahogany clams - after poisoning 300 with Campylobacter, perhaps it is time to stop serving (and eating) them raw?

Posted on October 10, 2010
In September 2008 236 people who ate raw Mahogany clams at Hinderwadel's Grove between September 4 and September 16 developed a gastrointestinal illness. Lab results from the Onondaga County Health Department provided "overwhelming evidence" the clams caused the illnesses...

"Pain is fear leaving the body"

Posted on October 10, 2010
I am not sure who coined the phrase originally, but a friend of mine says it is on a sign that hangs over the entrance of the pool where his daughter swam during high school. I thought of it again while I was visiting Linda and Richard Rivera in San Francisco, where Linda remains in rehab...

Foodborne Illness Outbreak Database turns One-year Old

Posted on October 10, 2010
Although we may not have every foodborne or food poisoning outbreak that has happened listed, we do have those (since 1984) that produced a report or press release from a local, state or federal health department. We continue to ask for things we missed or comments of any kind.

"La Nuestra" brand frozen Mamey Ice Cream recalled due to Salmonella Typhi

Posted on October 09, 2010
Montalvan's Sales, Inc. of Ontario, CA has voluntarily recalled "La Nuestra" brand frozen Mamey Ice Cream due to a potential health risk from Salmonella Typhi. Typhoid fever is a life-threatening illness caused by the bacterium Salmonella Typhi. Salmonella Typhi lives only in humans...

Listeria monocytogenes Recall - Haifa Smoked Fish

Posted on October 09, 2010
D & M Smoked Fish, Inc., which does business as Haifa Smoked Fish, announced this week that the company was recalling specific lots of its Haifa Smoked Fish brand products due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. The recalled products, which were sold in vacuum-packed plastic packaging, were sold between Aug...

Hinerwadel's Grove sickens sixty with Campylobacter Clams

Posted on October 08, 2010
The Onondaga County Health Department says 60 people have become ill by Campylobacter because of raw clams served at an event at Hinerwadel's Grove in North Syracuse. The Health Department says so far, all of the illnesses have been linked to a clambake September 15th for the CNY Builders Exchange...

Raw Milk Satirized on Colbert Nation

Posted on October 08, 2010
Several weeks ago when the producer of the Colbert Show was searching for information on raw milk, he stumbled on to several of my blog posts and www.realrawmilkfacts.com.  I urged that he take a hard look at some of the videos and to contact David Gumpert at the Complete Patient as well as a few others, including David Acheson...

Ground Beef, Ham and Turkey Recalled Due to E. coli O157:H7 Risk in New York

Posted on October 08, 2010
New York State Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker 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, in-store sliced deli turkey and in-store sliced deli ham sold on September 29, 2010, due to the presence of E...

Raw Milk Satirized on Colbert Nation

Posted on October 07, 2010
Several weeks ago when the producer of the Colbert Show was searching for information on raw milk, he stumbled on to several of my blog posts and www.realrawmilkfacts.com.  I urged that he take a hard look at some of the videos and to contact David Gumpert at the Complete Patient as well as a few others, including David Acheson...

Wired seems to be paying attention to all sorts of "bugs"

Posted on October 06, 2010
After my stint as the "Toxic Avenger" in this month's Wired Magazine, I thought the techies were done with me - apparently, they have a lot of interested in all types of bugs - Re: C diff: What's really interesting, though, is that microbiologists aren't the only ones noticing this accumulation of evidence...

Casa de Chicken Coop Completed

Posted on October 06, 2010
Well the coop got painted yesterday afternoon.  Frankly, after $5,000 in cost I am going to stop counting.  The eggs I am sure will be the best.  Friday I will be meeting with the lab who will start testing my chickens for Salmonella and Campylobacter...

Wedding from Hell in Roseville California - 7 hospitalized and 23 sickened

Posted on October 05, 2010
Lien Hoang of the Roseville Press Tribune got to cover the wedding from hell. Seven people were hospitalized last Saturday night after food served at a wedding poisoned at least 30 guests, according to the Roseville Fire Department. Firefighters responded around 8:45 p...

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