Personal Injury Law

Companies Recalling Peanut Products Tell Bankruptcy Court They Are Victims Too!

Posted on June 16, 2009
To list all the peanut products they've recalled takes a couple pages each for Kellogg Co. and Clif Bar Inc.   For Kellogg's, it includes products like Famous Amos Peanut Butter Cookies and Keebler Soft Batch Homestyle Peanut Butter Cookies...

Bar Date Extended to October 31, 2009 for Filing of Salmonella Personal Injury Claims Against Peanut Corporation of America

Posted on June 14, 2009

Salmonella Was The Big Bacteria On The Block In 2006

Posted on June 13, 2009
Perhaps the most interesting statistic about salmonella is that only 6.1 percent of all the thousands of illnesses it was responsible for in 2006 could be attributed to the recognized outbreaks that are laid out in this week's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)...

"Team D" Profiled On Blog at Consumer Reports: Credited For Role In Finding Salmonella In Peanut Butter

Posted on June 09, 2009
The Consumer Reports Blog has a nice profile up on "Team D," the environmental science students at the University of Minnesota who've been at the center of tracking down recent outbreaks of food-borne illness, including salmonella.  Here's how CR begins the story: "Graduate students in the University of Minnesota School of Public Health vie to get on an elite team, even if they have to put up with its icky nickname—Team D...

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Usually All Is Well In Lee's Summit, MO; But Not Today--Salmonella Sends Two Little Ones To The Hospital

Posted on June 03, 2009
Richardson Elementary School students in Lee's Summit, MO were sent home with warning letters yesterday after two kindergartners were hospitalized with salmonella. A boy, listed in fair condition, and a girl, whose condition was not being released, were enrolled in Richardson's Kids Country during the school year...

Tested Positive For Salmonella Last September, Union International Just Gets Around To Recalling White Peppers With Red Labels

Posted on June 02, 2009
Somebody must have hit the "re-send" button overnight at the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) as we received a number of recall notices from earlier May that we've already written about. One that is somewhat new, however, is from last Friday when Union International Food Company recalled Lian How Brand White Peppers with red labels because of possible Salmonella contamination...

Setton Pistachio Claims It "Never Knowingly" Shipped Tainted Product

Posted on May 27, 2009
After the recall since March of a couple million pounds of pistachios in over 660 separate products, Setton Pistachio sent its Chief Operating Officer (COO) out to deny the California company continued to ship its seeds after discovering they were contaminated with salmonella...

Raw Milk Used To Make Mexican-Style Cheese Blamed In Utah Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on May 26, 2009
 Homemade queso fresco , a Mexican-style soft cheese made with raw milk, is being blamed by health officials for a salmonella outbreak in Utah's Salt Lake Valley. The Salt Lake Tribune reported last week on seven salmonella cases that were being linked to someone in Kearns, Utah who was making queso fresco using raw milk from a cow on a nearby farm...

Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Makes Its 483 Inspection Report of Setton Pistachio Public

Posted on May 23, 2009
  In a 483 Inspection Report released today, FDA inspectors identified multiple food-safety shortcomings at the Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella California that was linked to a Salmonella outbreak earlier this year: 1. The company detected the bacteria in roasted pistachios in October but did not change its processing procedures until March 2...

WAL*MART Cantaloupes In Carolinas Recalled After Testing Positive For Salmonella

Posted on May 17, 2009
 How big is "a lot?" Raleigh, NC-based L&M Companies, Inc. has recalled "one lot of whole cantaloupes because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. One lot must be a lot because there were enough cantaloupes to fulfill the needs of Walmart Supercenter Stores in North Carolina and South Carolina, and in the Walmart Supercenter Store located at 315 Furr Street in South Hill, Virginia...

WAL*MART Cantaloupes In Carolinas And South Hill, Virginia Recalled After Testing Positive For Salmonella

Posted on May 17, 2009
 How big is "a lot?" Raleigh, NC-based L&M Companies, Inc. has recalled "one lot of whole cantaloupes because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. One lot must be a lot because there were enough cantaloupes to fulfill the needs of Walmart Supercenter Stores in North Carolina and South Carolina, and in the Walmart Supercenter Store located at 315 Furr Street in South Hill, Virginia...

Peanuts & Pistachios Will Mark The History Of Change At Food & Drug Administration

Posted on May 14, 2009
Few would have predicted that when history is written on the first term of the Obama Administration that peanuts and pistachios would play such prominent roles.   Those unlikely products, however, will be used by historians to demonstrate the bad old ways versus the new U...

FDA Updates Its Alfalfa Sprout Investigation And Continues To Ban Their Consumption; Tells About The Seeds of Destruction

Posted on May 12, 2009
 Here are the highlights of an update just posted from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the sprout-caused Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak that has impacted at least 14 states:  A preliminary report of the investigation is available from CDC's, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, MMWR  [PDF - 114 KB]...

De Jong Bros. Farms Recalls Spinach That May Be Contaminated With Salmonella

Posted on May 02, 2009
And in news from Illinois Agriculture this morning we learn of a spinach recall due to possible Salmonella contamination.     De  Jong Bros . Farms, Incorporated of Lansing, Illinois, has recalled its curly leaf spinach packages sold in 2...

FDA Alerts Sprout Growers and Retailers About Specific Lots of Alfalfa Seed Potentially Contaminated with Salmonella

Posted on May 02, 2009
 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may be getting to the bottom of the problem of contaminated sprouts.   And, the very bottom appears to be the seeds.   FDA issued this statement late yesterday: Preliminary epidemiology regarding the ongoing outbreak of illness from Salmonella Saintpaul in people who had eaten alfalfa sprouts was shared with the supplier of the seeds associated with illness...

Why Not Recall The Seeds In the Sprout-Caused Salmonella Saintpaul Outbreak?

Posted on May 01, 2009
 The CDC reports that since mid-March, 35 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Saintpaul have been reported from 7 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Michigan (17), Minnesota (4), Ohio (3), Pennsylvania (6), South Dakota (2), Utah (1), and West Virginia (2)...

Field Trippers Take A Little Piece of Environment Home With Them--The Salmonella Bacteria!

Posted on April 30, 2009
This time of year, you see school kids on all sorts of field trips.   Seems teachers can only stand to be locked up with the little buggers for so long.   What could be better than taking them out to something called "Stone Environmental" camp on a rented piece of the "Purity Springs Resort" in Madison, N...

Nevada Woman, Shirley Shultz, Hospitalized Due to Salmonella Spices from Union International Food Company and CJ United Corporation

Posted on April 26, 2009
A 77-year-old Dayton woman is recovering after being hospitalized for salmonella poisoning from pepper.  Shirley Shultz's infection coincides with recalls of white and black pepper by California-based companies Union International Food Co. and CJ United Corp...

Federal Government's Top Food Safety Agencies Say "Do Not Eat Raw Sprouts!"

Posted on April 26, 2009
The Obama Administration is far from having its own people in place to run the food safety machinery of the federal government. However, we are starting to see some of the changes that were promised in last year's campaign. One of these changes is to issue warnings to the public not to eat something once its apparent there is a problem...

Experts For The Victims Get Inside The Peanut Corporation of America's Plants in Texas and Georgia

Posted on April 24, 2009
Experts for lawyers representing the victims of the Salmonella Typhimurium inspected both the Peanut Corporation of America's Plainview, TX and Blakely, GA plants this week.  With nine deaths and hundreds of illnesses linked to the Salmonella contamination found inside the PCA facilities, media attention on this week's first inspections by outside experts was high...

Sprouts and Spice All Adding Up To Salmonella From Michigan To California

Posted on April 22, 2009
 We were chatting earlier today with one of the nation's experts on food borne illnesses. He was making the point that people in good health, in the prime of their life, can be cut down by food-borne illnesses like Salmonella. And Salmonella seems to be everywhere this spring...

Spice Recall Expanded; All Listed Here May Be Contaminated With Salmonella

Posted on April 16, 2009
 FDA announced that Union International Food Co. is expanding a spice recall to include all Lian How brand and Uncle Chen brand sauces, oil and oil blends in various size packages because the products may be contaminated with salmonella, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections, especially in young children, the elderly and those with weakened immune systems...

Iowa Health Officials Kept Focus For Salmonella St. Paul Outbreak On SunSprout Enterprises

Posted on April 15, 2009
The recall of sprouts by SunSprout Enterprises Inc. of Omaha, Neb did not come quick enough for 34 Iowans including 3 living clear across the state on the banks of the Mississippi River in Scott County. The 34 Iowans are suffering from Salmonella St. Paul, the very bacteria found in the recalled sprouts...

A Rainy Night In Georgia Is Followed By Spiked Salmonella Levels The Next Morning!

Posted on April 13, 2009
A rainy night in Georgia A rainy night in Georgia I believe that it's raining all over the world I feel that it's raining all over the world Scientific American is out with a report today that says when you add that famous rain to Georgia you end up with lot's of Salmonella...

Bangladeshi Freshwater Fish Recalled Because Of Salmonella Contamination

Posted on April 09, 2009
Asia Cash & Carry Inc. in Maspeth, New York, is recalling 34 cases of CROWN FARMS brand 'KESKI' Frozen Fish (Bangladeshi Freshwater Fish) in 300gm packages with production code JULY 2008 because the product has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella...

Send In The Clowns? No, Send In The U.S. Marshals!

Posted on April 08, 2009
 For the last few weeks the FDA and Westco Fruit and Nuts Inc. (Westco/Westcott), have been "negotiating" on whether a recall would be issued of Westco/Westcott peanut products.  Today the FDA dropped the hammer down.  From the FDA Website: At the request of the U...

Get Your Wdgets! - Salmonella Peanuts and Pistachios

Posted on April 08, 2009
FDA Product Recall List FDA pistachio product Recall Widget. Flash Player 9 is required. Visit http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/pistachiorecall/index.cfm to search for pistachio product recalls for more information.     FDA Product Recall List FDA Peanut Product Recall Widget...

Get Your Widgets! - Salmonella Peanuts and Pistachios

Posted on April 08, 2009
FDA Product Recall List FDA pistachio product Recall Widget. Flash Player 9 is required. Visit http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/pistachiorecall/index.cfm to search for pistachio product recalls for more information.     FDA Product Recall List FDA Peanut Product Recall Widget...

Feds Find Salmonella At Setton's Plant; Company Expands Pistachio Recall

Posted on April 07, 2009
There are a couple of developments today in the pistachio front.  First the feds have found traces of salmonella in the Terra Bella, California processing facility.   That was probably why Setton Pistachio earlier today expanded its recall of pistachios to include all roasted shell pistachios and in-shell pistachios "due to possible salmonella contamination...

FDA Alerts the Public to Uncle Chen and Lian How Brand Dry Spice Product Recall Due to Salmonella Illnesses

Posted on April 07, 2009
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting the public to a voluntary recall by Union International Food Company (Union City, Calif.) of the company's dry spice products. The recall is based on an investigation of an ongoing foodborne illness outbreak of Salmonella Rissen...

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