Personal Injury Law

UK Says Some Herbs Carry Salmonella--Warning Issued To Consumers

Posted on January 09, 2009
<p> The United Kingdom is warning its consumers about salmonella in ready-to-eat herbs.  According to the <strong>Mail Online:</strong></p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1...

Multistate Outbreak of Salmonella Infections Associated with Frozen Pot Pies --- United States, 2007

Posted on January 09, 2009
<p><strong>SOURCE: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Nov. 28, 2008<br /> Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<br /> 1600 Clifton Rd, MailStop E-90, Atlanta, GA 30333, U.S.A</strong></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>On June 6, 2007, a cluster of four human <i>Salmonella</i> serotype I 4,5,12:i:-* infections sharing a pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) pattern was identified by the <img width="200" height="196" vspace="5" hspace="5" align="left" alt="" src="http://walmartwatch...

Pew's Produce Safety Project Weighs In On Salmonella Saintpaul Outbreak

Posted on January 09, 2009
<p> One item in the consumer news wrap-up published by the <strong>Salt Lake Tribune</strong> yesterday caught our eye. It was this:</p> <p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 18px; text-indent: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; ">"A failure by government agencies to coordinate their investigation into a U...

California's Next Big Housing Boom Will Be For The Calves, Pigs and Chickens--Will There Be Less Salmonella?

Posted on January 09, 2009
<p>We decided not to comment on this one before now because it seemed to be a battle of the experts and we did not have the resources to sort it out. <strong>California voters have now spoken and by a 63-36 percent margin, they've said the calves, pigs and chickens will get new housing by 2015...

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Salmonella Contaminated Hershey Candy Found Back On Store Shelves

Posted on January 09, 2009
<p>A couple of years ago, <strong>Hershey Canada Inc.</strong> recalled some of its candy due to possible salmonella contamination.  Now some of that same candy is showing up on store shelves in the Toronto area.</p> <p>That prompted this action over the weekend: <strong>The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)</strong> and <strong>Hershey Canada</strong> warned the public that certain Hershey chocolate products previously recalled on November 12, 2006, have been found for sale in a small number of independent retail outlets in the Etobicoke, North York, Niagara Falls, and Oshawa areas in Ontario...

Volunteers of America Kitchen In Los Angeles Linked To Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on January 09, 2009
<p><font id="Zoom"><img width="220" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="115" align="left" alt="" src="http://www.voala.org/images/top_left.jpg" />A single kitchen that supplies food to 29 preschools operated by the <strong>Volunteers of America of Greater Los Angeles </strong>has put up to 900 people at risk of exposure to salmonella...

Canada's Raw Milk Poster Boy Compares Himself With Gandhi and King--Dilutional or Dilirious?

Posted on January 09, 2009
<p><img width="100" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="119" align="left" alt="" src="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/michaelschmidt.jpg" />Let's see.   You cook up a scheme to evade the law.   You get caught...

Wisconsin Updates Public On Multi-State Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on January 09, 2009
<p><img width="200" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="200" align="left" src="http://images.civicheraldry.com/119/wisconsin_seal_n4199.gif" alt="" />Well, it's been a week since we learned that consumers were being blamed for a multi-state salmonella outbreak involving under-cooked chicken...

Federal Government Blames Salmonella Outbreak On Consumers

Posted on January 09, 2009
<p><strong>Bad, bad, bad consumers!  </strong>Don't you fools know that if you pick up the wrong box in the grocery store coolers with thousands of products that can be microwaved that some smaller percentage must be oven-baked?  Can't you read the small print on the boxes?  What's the matter with you?</p> <p>That's what the <strong>U...

State Forces Alamosa To Accept Chlorinating & Testing Of Water

Posted on January 09, 2009
<p><img width="287" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="300" align="left" alt="" src="http://media.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/content/img/photos/2008/03/26/326ALAMOSA__t220.jpg" />Eight months after the town's public water supply was found to be responsible for a salmonella outbreak that made <strong>more 400 people sick and contributed to one person's death,</strong> Alamosa, Colorado has reached an agreement with the state Department of Health and Environment for regular testing...

If You Get "Poona," The Good News Is You Will Probably Get Over It

Posted on January 09, 2009
<p>If you come down with something with the word <strong>"Poona" </strong>in it, somehow it seems a whole lot more serious.  However, at least one Canadian health expert is saying you get <strong>Salmonella Poona</strong> and you get over it...

20 Salmonella Cases Linked to Amarillo Texas IHOP

Posted on January 09, 2009
<p><img width="200" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="150" align="right" src="http://www.salmonellablog.com/uploads/image/IHOP(1).jpg" alt="" />According the the Texas Department of Health, as of noon, Wednesday afternoon, the number of salmonella cases reported to the Health Department linked to the IHOP restaurant at I-40 and Western Street has grown to twenty...

Amarillo IHOP Linked To Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on January 09, 2009
<p><img width="200" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="150" align="left" src="http://kfda.images.worldnow.com/images/8515985_BG1.jpg" alt="" />For the third time in three months, the International House of Pancakes (IHOP) in Amarillo, Texas is closed<span style="font-weight: bold;">--this time  at  least  seven  confirmed cases of salmonella are linked to  the restaurant...

Salmonella Outbreak In Pacific Northwest Due To Sprouts, Says Bill Marler

Posted on January 09, 2009
<p>Thirteen people -- nine in Washington and four in Oregon -- have been <u>infected with Salmonella</u> Typhimurium from eating alfalfa sprouts. </p> <p><img width="200" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="179" align="left" src="http://weblogs...

The CDC's List of States with Salmonella Peanut Butter Cases

Posted on January 09, 2009
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a breakdown on Friday of the number of cases in each of 42 states involved in a nationwide outbreak of salmonella poisoning that has stricken at least 399 people: _ California, 55 _ Ohio, 53 _ Massachusetts, 39 _ Minnesota, 30 _ Michigan 20 _ New Jersey 13 _ New York, 12 _ Pennsylvania 12 _ Virginia 12 _ Washington 11 _ Idaho, 10 _ North Dakota, 10 _ New Hampshire, 10 _ Colorado, 9 _ Tennessee, 9 _ Arizona, 8 _ Missouri, 8 _ Maryland, 7 _ Connecticut, 6 _ Nevada, 6 _ Georgia, 5 _ Oregon, 5 _ Texas, 5 _ Illinois, 4 _ Vermont, 4 _ Arkansas, 3 _ Indiana, 3 _ Kentucky, 3 _ Maine, 3 _ Rhode Island, 3 _ Utah, 3 _ Wisconsin, 3 _ Kansas, 2 _ Oklahoma, 2 _ South Dakota, 2 _ West Virginia, 2 _ Wyoming, 2 _ Alabama, 1 _ Hawaii, 1 _ Iowa, 1 _ Nebraska, 1 _ North Carolina, 1

efoodalert Weighs In With Case Counts By State

Posted on January 09, 2009
 From the pages of efoodalert - Based on information posted by the three states, and on media reports across the United States, the following 29 states have reported confirmed cases of Salmonella Typhimurium that are linked genetically to the national outbreak...

First Word From Federal Government On 4-Month Old Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on January 09, 2009
 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),  the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) all have tremendous public relations programs  to communicate with the public...

Salmonella Typhimurium Outbreak Might Have Taken A Life In Minnesota

Posted on January 09, 2009
The nationwide salmonella outbreak may have killed a person in Minnesota. A health department spokesman in Minnesota says an elderly woman had the infection when she died, but it's not clear that salmonella was the cause. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the outbreak has struck 42 states and made nearly 400 people ill...

Ohio Is Just Tip Of The Salmonella Typhimurium Ice Berg

Posted on January 08, 2009
&nbsp;The CDC reports that an outbreak of&nbsp;Salmonella&nbsp;food poisoning has made 388 people sick across 42 states, sending 18 percent of them to the hospital, U.S. health officials said on Wednesday.&nbsp; The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is trying to trace the source of the outbreak, which began in September...

State of Ohio Joins Salmonella??Typhimurium??Multistate??Outbreak??Investigation??

Posted on January 07, 2009
The Ohio Department of Health says it is investigating the multi-state Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak. Ohio health officials say they are participating in a nationwide investigation to try to identify the contaminated food vehicle for an outbreak of salmonellosis that has been going on since last October...

Ohio Is Just Tip Of The Salmonella Typhimurium Ice Berg

Posted on January 07, 2009
 The CDC reports that an outbreak of Salmonella food poisoning has made 388 people sick across 42 states, sending 18 percent of them to the hospital, U.S. health officials said on Wednesday.  The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is trying to trace the source of the outbreak, which began in September...

State of Ohio Joins Salmonella Typhimurium Multistate Outbreak Investigation 

Posted on January 07, 2009
The Ohio Department of Health says it is investigating the multi-state Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak. Ohio health officials say they are participating in a nationwide investigation to try to identify the contaminated food vehicle for an outbreak of salmonellosis that has been going on since last October...

State of Wisconsin Orders Recall Of Sprouts From Sunrise Farms Due To Salmonella Contamination

Posted on January 05, 2009
Wisconsin's Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection is not waiting for someone to get sick with salmonella after finding sprouts contaminated with the bacteria. Instead, Wisconsin is recalling packaged sprouts from Sunrise Farms Inc...

State of Wisconsin Orders Recall Of Sprouts From Sunrise Farms Due To Salmonella Contamination

Posted on January 04, 2009
Wisconsin's Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection is not waiting for someone to get sick with salmonella after finding sprouts contaminated with the bacteria. Instead, Wisconsin is recalling packaged sprouts from Sunrise Farms Inc...

Salmonella Puts Family Mortgage At Risk, But There is A Miracle on the Blog

Posted on December 26, 2008
Second in the world only to China's melamine scandal, Salmonella was the top food-borne illness story in the United States in 2008. Salmonella Saintpaul in tomatoes&mdash;wait&mdash;peppers. A final count of 1,442 ill in 43 states, D.C., and Canada, and those are the confirmed illnesses...

Salmonella Puts Family Mortgage At Risk, But There is A Miracle on the Blog

Posted on December 25, 2008
Second in the world only to China's melamine scandal, Salmonella was the top food-borne illness story in the United States in 2008. Salmonella Saintpaul in tomatoes—wait—peppers. A final count of 1,442 ill in 43 states, D.C., and Canada, and those are the confirmed illnesses...

UK Says Some Herbs Carry Salmonella--Warning Issued To Consumers

Posted on November 30, 2008
&nbsp;The United Kingdom is warning its consumers about salmonella in ready-to-eat herbs. &nbsp;According to the Mail Online: &nbsp; In a study of packets of fresh herbs Government scientists found the food poisoning bug in dangerous levels in a small proportion of packets...

UK Says Some Herbs Carry Salmonella--Warning Issued To Consumers

Posted on November 30, 2008
 The United Kingdom is warning its consumers about salmonella in ready-to-eat herbs.  According to the Mail Online:   In a study of packets of fresh herbs Government scientists found the food poisoning bug in dangerous levels in a small proportion of packets...

Multistate Outbreak of Salmonella Infections Associated with Frozen Pot Pies --- United States, 2007

Posted on November 27, 2008
SOURCE: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Nov. 28, 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1600 Clifton Rd, MailStop E-90, Atlanta, GA 30333, U.S.A &nbsp; &nbsp; On June 6, 2007, a cluster of four human&nbsp;Salmonella&nbsp;serotype I 4,5,12:i:-* infections sharing a pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) pattern was identified by the Pennsylvania Department of Health and reported to PulseNet...

Multistate Outbreak of Salmonella Infections Associated with Frozen Pot Pies --- United States, 2007

Posted on November 27, 2008
SOURCE: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Nov. 28, 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1600 Clifton Rd, MailStop E-90, Atlanta, GA 30333, U.S.A     On June 6, 2007, a cluster of four human Salmonella serotype I 4,5,12:i:-* infections sharing a pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) pattern was identified by the Pennsylvania Department of Health and reported to PulseNet...

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