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Fairbank Farms Sickens at Least Four in Maine
Posted on November 18, 2009According to AP, Maine officials are reminding consumers to check their freezers for recalled ground beef after four people were hospitalized for E. coli poisoning. Last month, Fairbank Farms of Ashville, N.Y., recalled almost 546,000 pounds of fresh ground beef that had been distributed in September to stores from North Carolina to Maine...
Fairbury Steaks, Inc. Recalls Ground Beef
Posted on November 17, 2009Fairbury Steaks, Inc. a Fairbury, Neb., establishment, is recalling approximately 90 pounds of fresh ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today...
Second Lincoln parent files suit in E. coli contamination
Posted on November 14, 2009A second Lincoln family is suing a Massachusetts business that is accused of supplying burger meat tainted with E. coli bacteria during a Lincoln Middle School trip after which several students and staff became sick. Lincoln resident Barry Santos is the plaintiff on behalf of his daughter Lynn Santos...
New York Times - Fairbanks Farms did not test trim for E. coli?
Posted on November 13, 2009Michael Moss breaks yet another concerning E. coli story - "E. Coli Outbreak Traced to Company That Halted Testing of Ground Beef." Apparently, Fairbank Farms purchased incoming trim to add to its hamburger and failed to test it for E...
CDC reports outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 Infections Associated with Beef from Fairbank Farms
Posted on November 10, 2009California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont health departments, CDC, and the United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) are investigating a multi-state outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections...
Fairbank Farms Issues Recall of E. coli O157:H7 Tainted Ground Beef from Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia
Posted on October 31, 2009From a Company Press Release: Fairbank Farms (USDA Establishment 492), a New York manufacturer of ground beef, has issued a voluntary recall for a specified line of fresh ground beef products sold in eight states. Approximately 545,699 pounds of fresh ground beef product produced between September 14 through September 16, 2009, may possibly be linked to E...
E. coli O157:H7 Linked to Wendy's Salads in Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada - So, where did the lettuce come from?
Posted on October 31, 2009The Daily Gleaner of Fredericton, New Brunswick reported on yet another E. coli outbreak linked to salads prepared at a Wendy's. Public Health Services is following four confirmed cases of E. coli believed to be linked to people who ate at the Wendy's Restaurant on Prospect Street...
E. coli O157:H7 Hamburger Outbreak Expands to New Hampshire and Ten other States - What the Hell is up?
Posted on October 31, 2009New Hampshire with two ill and one death, joins Maine, Massachusetts (at least three ill), Connecticut, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and likely Rhode Island (at least twenty ill) in a growing E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to over 546,000 pounds of hamburger produced by Fairbank Farms of New York and distributed via retail outlets including Trader Joe's, Price Chopper, Lancaster, Wild Harvest, Shaw's, BJ's, Ford Brothers, and Giant...
Elton John has E. coli?
Posted on October 30, 2009Elton John has postponed two planned Seattle concerts with Billy Joel on the advice of his doctor, Live Nation announced today. The pop singer is suffering from "a serious case of E. coli bacterial infection and influenza," according to a written statement released by the concert promoter today...
E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to hamburger reported at Camp Bournedale in Plymouth Massachusetts
Posted on October 24, 2009Rich Harbert of Gate House News Service reported that Rhode Island health officials said 15 students from Lincoln Middle School suffered diarrhea after a trip to Camp Bournedale in Cedarville last week. Two of the students tested positive for E...
Texas Culebra Meat Market announces beef recall
Posted on October 21, 2009Culebra Meat Market No. 1 announced Tuesday a recall of three beef cuts because of a possible E. coli contamination: beef asada, beef stew meat and ground beef. The beef was sold to area restaurants and to individual customers from Oct. 2 through Thursday and bears state inspection legend No...
Lincoln, RI to Plymouth, MA To Pick Up Some E. coli
Posted on October 21, 2009The Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) was notified Monday of several sixth grade students from Lincoln Middle School with diarrheal illness. The students just returned from Camp Bournedale in nearby Plymouth, MA which they attended from October 13th through 16th...
Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome and Death in Persons with Escherichia coli O157:H7 Infection, Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network Sites, 2000-2006
Posted on October 17, 2009Clinical Infectious Diseases 2009; 49:000–000 L. Hannah Gould, 1, Linda Demma, 1, Timothy F. Jones, 3, Sharon Hurd, 4, Duc J. Vugia, 5, Kirk Smith, 6, Beletshachew Shiferaw, 7, Suzanne Segler, 2, Amanda Palmer, 8, Shelley Zansky, 9, Patricia M. Griffin, 1, and the Emerging Infections Program FoodNet Working Group Background...
Canadian vaccine to combat E. coli and non-E. coli STECs that cause "hamburger disease"
Posted on October 17, 2009Anne-Marie Hickey of the University of Saskatchewan's research communications office wrote an interesting article on the work of David Asper, a graduate student at the University of Saskatchewan. The veterinary microbiology student's work, soon to be published, is premised on the idea that humans can be protected from harmful bacteria by vaccinating cattle that are the source of the bacteria...
Ground Beef With E. Coli O157:H7 Recalled In CA
Posted on October 13, 2009E. coli season is not over yet. Routine testing by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) found possible contamination in ground beef at California's San Diego Meat Company. About 925 pounds of ground beef with possible contamination from E. coli O157:H7 has been recalled, FSIS said today...
Lack of Internalization of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) after Leaf Surface and Soil Inoculation
Posted on October 11, 2009Authors: Zhang, Guodong1; Ma, Li2; Beuchat, Larry R.2; Erickson, Marilyn C.2; Phelan, Vanessa H.2; Doyle, Michael P.2 Source: Journal of Food Protection®, Volume 72, Number 10, October 2009 , pp. 2028-2037(10) Publisher: International Association for Food Protection Abstract: Survival and internalization characteristics of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in iceberg, romaine, and leaf lettuce after inoculation of leaf surfaces and soil were determined...
A Dancer's Struggle with E. coli 0157:H7 from a Hamburger
Posted on October 08, 2009"I ask myself every day, ‘Why me?' and ‘Why from a hamburger?' Michael Moss does an amazing job of exposing the underbelly of how our meat is produced in the United States. E. coli O157:H7 is a deadly bacteria that nearly took Stephanie Smith's life...
Number of people affected by the outbreak of E. coli at a Surrey farm has risen to 88
Posted on October 03, 2009Officials said another case had been confirmed since Wednesday and three children remained in hospital in a stable condition on Friday evening. All those affected had visited Godstone Farm, near Redhill. The farm closed on 12 September after the outbreak emerged...
Victims of Oklahoma E. coli Outbreak File Suit Against Country Cottage Restaurant - Lawsuit Seeks to Cover Millions In Medical Expenses
Posted on October 03, 2009Victims of an August, 2008 outbreak of E. coli O111 have joined together to file suit against the Country Cottage restaurant, where they were sickened. The lawsuit was filed today in the District Court in the State of Oklahoma, in and for the County of Mayes, on behalf of twelve families...
Why Should the Food Safety and Inspection Service Declare Enterohemorrhagic non-O157 E. coli to be an Adulterant?
Posted on October 03, 2009It seems that any serious discussion of E. coli O157:H7 always has to start with one event: the 1993 outbreak associated with the Jack in the Box restaurant chain. This, of course, is with good reason. That outbreak left over 700 persons ill and 4 children dead...
Lot's of E. coli Found Down on the Godstone Farm Near Surrey
Posted on September 22, 2009The UK's Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) has tested feces from lambs, pigs, goats, cattle, ponies and rabbits at Godstone Farm near Surrey and found the dangerous E. coli O157:H7 strain in 33 of 102 samples. The Health Protection Agency (HPA) called in VLA...
A Petting Farm Sends Children To Hospitals Across South East England
Posted on September 13, 2009South East England hospitals are caring for a dozen children with infections from the dangerous E. coli O157:H7 bacteria that they picked up at a popular petting farm near Surrey. All are under age 10. All totaled health officials in the United Kingdom (UK) say 36 people were exposed to the bacteria, which was traced to the Godstone Farm & Playbarn, which allows children to touch animals...
Appalachian Fair Possible Source of Eastern Tennessee E. Coli Illnesses
Posted on September 10, 2009Eastern Tennessee's Appalachian Fair is the suspected source of the E. coli O157:H7 infections in two children. The Johnson City Medical Center is reporting that two children are being treated in the hospital with infections of the deadly bacteria. A week ago, doctors found four-year-old Gage Peterson has E...
Jane Majeska Vrs Dole, Natural Selection Foods, Mission Organics and Pic-n-Save
Posted on September 06, 2009The 2006 outbreak of E. coli tied to spinach sickened more than 205 people nationwide, many gravely. More than 31 developed Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) and five lost their lives. One of the most critically ill was Jane Majeska of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, an 85-year old woman whose fight to stay alive in the months after she consumed the Dole E...
Jane Majeska vs Dole, Natural Selection Foods, Mission Organics and Pic-n-Save
Posted on September 06, 2009The 2006 outbreak of E. coli tied to spinach sickened more than 205 people nationwide, many gravely. More than 31 developed Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) and five lost their lives. One of the most critically ill was Jane Majeska of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, an 85-year old woman whose fight to stay alive in the months after she consumed the Dole E...
The Washington Post Tells The Linda Rivera Story--Giving Context to Issue of Food Safety
Posted on September 01, 2009"People just don't really understand how horrible food-borne illness is," said William Marler, a prominent Seattle-based food-safety lawyer who is representing the Rivera family and 23 other victims in the cookie dough outbreak. "They think food-borne illness is a tummy ache and diarrhea...
The August 2008 Locust Grove, OK Outbreak of E. coli 0111--One Year Later
Posted on August 24, 2009Kim Archer of the Tulsa World has done a great job of recalling the horrors of the United States' largest E. coli O111 outbreak. • 341 were sickened • 70 people were hospitalized, including 22 children • 17 people received kidney dialysis, including eight children • 1 man died Excerpts from the Article about just one of the victims: His entire life, Kenneth Birkes has worked seven days a week from dawn to dark...
Organics Vrs. Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) Study At Kansas State University Finds No Difference In E. coli Prevalence In Beef Cattle
Posted on August 24, 2009We must be pass the time when all the stories seemed to be about how organics would make you able to jump tall buildings in a single bound. At Kansas State University, researchers have found that "cattle production systems" do not affect E...
UK's Cooking Time & Temperature Rule Subject of Dispute Involving McDonald's And Victim's Rights Group
Posted on August 21, 2009We've known since the 1993 Jack-in-the-Box outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7 that the big hamburger chains are concerned about cooking temperatures. Jack-in-the Box did not like Washington State's rule for cooking ground beef to 158 degrees Fahrenheit because customers complained about the hamburgers being too tough to eat...
JBS Swift & Company Sued In Federal Court By Wisconsin Family
Posted on August 19, 2009Three Family Members Sickened in Wisconsin, One Gravely. A Wisconsin family sickened in the JBS Swift Beef Company outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 will file suit against the company Wednesday. The lawsuit will be brought by the Seattle-based foodborne illness law firm Marler Clark in the Federal Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin...
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Wants To Control E. coli 0157:H7 At The Feedlot
Posted on August 19, 2009Big Red is out to find a diet that limits E. coli 0157:H7 at the feedlot. Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are studying how nutrition of ruminants affects the colonization and growth of E coli 0157:H7. Nebraska's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources is focusing on how nutrition affects microbiology...
Small New Jersey Meat Market Recalls 128 Pounds Of Ground Beef For E. coli 0157:H7 Contamination
Posted on August 18, 2009Vineland, NJ-based Pasha Halal Poultry, doing business as Marcacci Meats, a Vineland, N.J., recalled approximately 128 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced late Monday...
Professor Pennington Comments on Llay Fish Bar Outbreak: E. coli 0157:H7 Confirmed
Posted on August 12, 2009Infection from E. coli 0157:H7 has now been confirmed in four people from three families in Wrexham, England who made the mistake of dining at the Llay Fish Bar. E. coli 0157:H7 put 32-year old Karen Morrisroe-Clutton on life support and meant renal failure for three-year old Abigail Hennessey...
Epidemiological Data On Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough Overwhelming Linked to E. coli O157:H7 Illnesses
Posted on August 07, 2009I am starting to get Epidemiological outbreak responses from states. I found the below page in the Arizona State Health Department records. It is a CDC generated document that was sent to participating states in an outbreak conference call. The page above shows data obtained from the case-control study conducted as part of the outbreak investigation...
12-Year Old HUS Victim Rebecca Gosla Reaches Settlement With United Foods
Posted on August 01, 2009A confidential settlement was reached July 30th on behalf of twelve-year-old Rebecca Gosla, who was sickened in a 2007 E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to contaminated ground beef that were manufactured by United Foods. Rebecca's illness stands apart from most E...
E. S. Miller Packing Company Recalls Ground Beef Products Due To Possible E. coli O157:H7 Contamination
Posted on July 13, 2009Recall Release CLASS I RECALL FSIS-RC-038-2009 HEALTH RISK: HIGH E. S. Miller Packing Co., a Montgomery, Ill., establishment is recalling approximately 219 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today...
Latest Inspection Report For Danville, VA Nestle Cookie Dough Plant Released To Public
Posted on July 11, 2009After inspecting the Danville Plant on 06/18/2009, 06/19/2009, 06/22/2009, 06/23/2009, 06/24/2009, 06/25/2009, 06/26/2009, 07/07/2009, 07/08/2009, and 07/09/2009, the FDA posted the following observations. The full report can be found by clicking on image to left...
Nestle Restarts Cookie Dough Production After E. coli Outbreak
Posted on July 10, 2009Fresh on the heels of revelations by ABC news that three different E. coli strains have been linked to the nationwide outbreak of E. coli in cookie dough, the Wall Street Journal reports that Nestle is restarting production. The Danville, Virginia plant was closed on June 19, when E...
New E. Coli Cluster Reported In Colorado; Is FDA Giving Up On Nestle Investigation? Who Are We Going To Call?
Posted on July 10, 2009The Mountain Mail in Salida, CO reported on a cluster of E coli victims in the small Rocky Mountain community. Two cases are confirmed and three others have symptoms that are consistent with E. coli 0157:H7 infections. Both the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Chaffee County Public Health District are investigating, but neither has connected the Salida illnesses with a specific source...
One Year Old Isaiah Romero Of Sioux Center, Iowa Fighting Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
Posted on July 08, 2009One year old Isaiah Romero of Sioux Center, Iowa finds himself in Sanford Children's Hospital tonight, fighting back against Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS). KSFY Action News in Sioux Falls, South Dakota where Sanford Children's is located reports its possible Isaiah is a victim of the the E...
Science Writer Carl Zimmer Speculates About "Cow to Cookie" Mystery
Posted on July 08, 2009The 'cow to cookie' mystery has yet to be solved. We speak of course about how E. coli O157:H7, which usually originates in the hindgut of cows, made its way into raw refrigerated cookie dough made at the Nestle plant in Danville, VA. While you are waiting for the answer, you might want to read the paperback edition of Microcosm: E...
First Lawsuit Filed Against JBS Swift Beef By 14-Year Old Boy Visiting Colorado
Posted on July 06, 2009The first lawsuit stemming from the current E. coli O157:H7 (E. coli) recall by JBS Swift Beef Company of Greeley, Colorado that has been linked to 23 E. coli illnesses in California, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and Wisconsin was filed today on behalf of an Albuquerque-area child who was infected with E...
Official List Of Retailers Who Got Tainted Beef From JBS Swift USA's Greeley Beef Plant Grows To 82 Pages!
Posted on July 04, 2009Good to see USDA/FSIS and JBS Swift USA are working on the 4th. The list of retailers is now is 82 pages long. The E. coli O157:H7 Illnesses are at least 23 in nine states.
Retail Outlets named in E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak Linked to JBS Swift
Posted on July 03, 2009The Following outlets were identified today by JBS Swift and FSIS: Price Chopper Hannaford Stop & Shop Food 4 Less Fry's Smith's Costco Sams Club Kroger SAV a Lot Knight Super Foods #4 Weldon's Meat Market Jasper Mercantile Keeney's Food Mart Sweetbay All DAY AM PM MART Hobby's Hoagies Produce SHRTN HTL Produce Giant Full List.
Multistate Outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 Infections Associated with Beef from JBS Swift Beef Company
Posted on July 02, 2009Several state health departments, CDC, and the United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) are investigating a multi-state outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections. On June 24, FSIS issued a notice about a recall of 41,280 pounds of beef products from JBS Swift Beef Company that may be contaminated with E...
More Retailers Come Forward To Say They Are Involved In JBS Recall: Canada Issues Its List
Posted on July 02, 2009The JBS Swift USA recall of 380,000 pounds of beef contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 also involves these retailers: Bloom and Food Lion Stores in Georgia, South Carolina and Virginia – beef cuts and ground beef CostCo – steaks, ribs, ground beef Hannaford Bros...
Here (At Last) Is The List of Retailers Who Got Meat From JBS Swift USA's Greeley Beef Plant
Posted on July 02, 2009A few days before many of us light up the barbeque, JBS Swift and the FSIS finally publish the list of retailers who received the tainted-meat (click on below). Frankly, the retailer names had trickled out over the last few days as responsible stores alerted thier customers...
JBS Brings Investments To Greeley And Some E. coli To Beef Eaters
Posted on June 30, 2009The world's largest beef producer is now responsible for the year's largest E. coli O157:H7 beef-related outbreak to date in America. The entry of JBS into a dominant position in the U.S. beef industry has been both recent and quick. Dick and Charlie Monfort, who today together lead the group that owns the Colorado Rockies baseball team, would still probably have no trouble finding their way around the meat packing plant they once owned in Greeley, CO, 60 miles north of Denver...
Kroger Stores, Including Fry's, Smith's And Food 4 Less All Come Forward In JBS Beef Recall
Posted on June 30, 2009Looks like JBS Swift USA has one customer coming forward on its own. The Kroger Co. and its Fry's, Smith's, and Food 4 Less stores are all asking customers to check their freezers and return any beef with April 27-June 1 sell-by dates. The Smith's website has a good summary...
JBS Blames Its Wholesale Customers; Public Still Has No List of Retailers From FSIS
Posted on June 30, 2009E. coli O157:H7 originates in the intestines of cattle. Cattle, as many as 6,000 a day, are killed, processed and packed at the Greeley Beef Plant owned by JBS Swift USA. Yet JBS says the beef products it has recalled were contaminated outside their Colorado slaughtering plant because it was their customers that through trimming and grinding turned whole muscle cuts into ground beef...
FDA CONFIRMS E. COLI O157:H7 IN PREPACKAGED NESTLÉ TOLL HOUSE REFRIGERATED COOKIE DOUGH
Posted on June 29, 2009This just came in from your federal government: Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it has found E. coli O157:H7 (a bacterium that can cause serious food borne illness) in a sample of prepackaged Nestlé Toll House refrigerated cookie dough currently under recall by the manufacturer and marketer, Nestlé USA...
Is FSIS Going To Let JBS Hide Its List of Processors and Stores From Public?
Posted on June 28, 2009At least when Nestles USA announced that it was recalling all its Toll House cookie products, the public knew which retailers were involved. Every retail grocery in the country provides generous space for Nestle products. Nestle is currently at the center of the largest E...
JBS Swift Expands E. coli O157:H7 Recall of Beef Primals to Over 210 Tons Due to Link to 18 to 24 Illnesses
Posted on June 28, 2009Recall Release CLASS I RECALL FSIS-RC-034-2009 HEALTH RISK: HIGH This recall release is being reissued to expand the June 24 recall to include approximately 380,000 pounds of assorted beef primal products. JBS Swift Beef Company, a Greeley, Colo., establishment is voluntarily expanding its June 24 recall to include approximately 380,000 pounds of assorted beef primal products that may be contaminated with E...
Brazil's JBS Swift Beef Company Issues Recall For E. coli-tainted Beef In 13 States
Posted on June 25, 2009Beef products produced in Colorado by the Brazilian-owned JBS Swift Beef Company on April 21 and 22, 2009, and then shipped to distributors and retail establishments in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah and Wisconsin are now being recalled...
Sixth Ground Beef Recall Announced By FSIS, So Far In This E. Coli Season
Posted on June 23, 2009The sixth beef recall over possible E. coli 0157:H7 contamination this season occurred Monday when Chicago's International Meat Company Inc. called back a total of 6,152 of ground beef products. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) scored the recall as a Class I event with high health risk...
Second Lawsuit Filed, This One In Colorado, As E. Coli Cookie Outbreak Spreads Across Country
Posted on June 23, 2009We borrow this from the Marler Blog, where it was filed earlier today: An E. coli lawsuit was filed today on behalf of a Denver-area child who became gravely ill with E. coli O157:H7 after eating refrigerated Nestle Toll House cookie dough. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the family of Madison Sedbrook by her attorneys, William Marler of the Seattle-based foodborne illness law firm Marler Clark and Kara Knowles of the Denver firm Montgomery, Little, Soran, & Murray...
Marler Clark And Reilly Collins File First Lawsuit Against Nestle's In National E. coli 0157:H7 Outbreak
Posted on June 22, 2009A young woman who was hospitalized for seven days after eating raw cookie dough made by Nestle USA filed suit today against the company in California Superior Court, San Mateo County. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 18-year-old Jillian Collins by her attorneys, William Marler of the Seattle-based foodborne illness law firm Marler Clark and Terry O' Reilly of the San Mateo firm Reilly Collins...
Marler Clark And O'Reilly Collins File First Lawsuit Against Nestle's In National E. coli 0157:H7 Outbreak
Posted on June 22, 2009A young woman who was hospitalized for seven days after eating raw cookie dough made by Nestle USA filed suit today against the company in California Superior Court, San Mateo County. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 18-year-old Jillian Collins by her attorneys, William Marler of the Seattle-based foodborne illness law firm Marler Clark and Terry O' Reilly of the San Mateo firm O'Reilly Collins...
Nestle's Danville, VA Plant Gets Visits From Federal Food Safety Officials
Posted on June 21, 2009Federal food safety officials are on the ground at the Danville, VA plant (see picture on right) that made the recalled Nestle's cookie dough, the Washington Post reported this morning. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is trying to solve the mystery of why and how a bacteria found in the gut of a cow found its way into raw cookie dough, causing a national E...
FDA Joins States In Warning Against Eating Nestle Toll House Cookie Products; CDC Issues Outbreak Map
Posted on June 20, 2009It's rare that an "FDA Medwatch" is about food. Usually, such alerts are for medical professionals and address something having to do with drugs or medical devices. The national E. coli 0157:H7 outbreak associated with Nestle's cookie dough, however, is very unusual and this FDA Medwatch has been issued for both consumers and all healthcare professionals: FDA and the CDC are warning consumers not to eat any varieties of prepackaged Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough due to the risk of contamination with E...
66 E. coli O157:H7 Illnesses in 28 States Linked to Nestle's Toll House Cookie
Posted on June 19, 2009Over the last few weeks we have been investigating E. coli O157:H7 illnesses in several states. All seemed unconnected. However, common food items were uncooked Nestles Toll House Cookie Dough, Strawberries, Fruit Roll-ups and Ground Beef. The vast majority reported eating Toll House Cookies...
Local Newspaper Reports Nestle Is Shutting Down Production At Its Danville Cookie Dough Plant
Posted on June 19, 2009The Danville News just put this report on its website: Nestle USA has stopped production in half of its Danville, VA plant following a Centers for Disease Control and Food and Drug Administration investigation that the company's cookie dough may be connected to a recent E...
Your Federal Government Weighs In On Toll House Cookie/E. coli 0157:H7 Outbreak
Posted on June 19, 2009Following Bill Marler's exclusive last night on his personal blog, the State of Colorado, and Toll House Cookies, the federal government just issued this release on the Toll House Cookie crisis: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are warning consumers not to eat any varieties of prepackaged Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough due to the risk of contamination with E...
Nestle Is Out With A Recall Of Its Toll House Cookies --E coli 0157:H7 Contamination Feared
Posted on June 19, 2009On the heels of the warning Colorado issued about Nestle Toll House cookies, the company issued the following press release: (SOLON, Ohio) – June 19th, 2009 – Nestlé USA's Baking Division is initiating a voluntary recall of Nestlé® TOLL HOUSE® refrigerated cookie dough products...
Coloradans Urged Not To Eat Raw Nestle Toll House Cookies
Posted on June 19, 2009DENVER--The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is urging Coloradans not to eat raw Nestle Toll House cookie dough because of possible contamination with E. coli O157:H7. Colorado state health officials, the CDC and several other state health departments are investigating an outbreak of E...
Timing of May 21st Recall At Valley Meats Raises Questions About Its "Test And Hold" Program
Posted on June 16, 2009Valley Meats LLC, a Coal Valley, Illinois grinding plant recalled approximately 95,898 pounds of ground beef that might have been contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced in late May...
Fifth Beef Recall Due To E. coli 0157:H7 Contamination, Announced By FSIS
Posted on June 09, 2009For the fifth time since May 4th, the Food Safety & Inspection Service (FSIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced a "Class I, High Health Risk" recall due to contamination of beef by E. coli O157:H7. The latest recall involves just 75 pounds of fresh beef trim products from Snow Creek Meat Processing in Seneca, SC...
Maine's Cumberland And York Counties Have E Coli Cases Connected To National Cluster, According To PFGE Match
Posted on June 05, 2009Maine CDC is investigating a cluster of 7 shiga toxin positive E. coli O157:H7 (STEC) cases in Cumberland and York counties that occurred among residents over the past month (case onset dates of April 17 to May 17). This is double the usual number of STEC cases reported this time of year (n=3)...
FSIS Finds E. Coli In Cascade Natural & SP Beef Products; Recall Impacts Washington & Oregon
Posted on June 03, 2009Portland, OR-based SP Provisions is recalling approximately 39,973 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The products subject to recall include: Cascade Natural Beef Brand: 5-pound and 10-pound bags of ground beef...
Grimmway Farms Sues Over Loss Of Its Carrot Crop To Neighbor's Sheep
Posted on June 01, 2009Fernando and Yvonne Iturriria are neighbors of Grimmway Farms outside Bakersfield, CA. They raise sheep next door to Grimmway Farms, which grows carrots. After the sheep recently got into the carrots, Grimmway Farms destroyed 75 acres out of concern that sheep droppings might have left the carrots contaminated with E...
A Quick Swim In The E Coli Contaminated Oklahoma River Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time
Posted on May 28, 2009It seemed like such a good idea at the time. Everyone would meet at Regatta Park in downtown Oklahoma City at the corner of Reno and Lincoln. The race would begin off the docks of the Chesapeake Boathouse with a one lap, 1.5 kilometer swim across the Oklahoma River...
Food Borne Illness Attorney William Marler Says When Its Comes To E. coli Outbreak, Remember What You Ate
Posted on May 26, 2009The following was an editorial by Youngstown, Ohio television station WYTV-33: Summertime means firing-up the grill or heading to the county fair, but it also means e-coli dangers. The US Department of Agriculture says at least three people in Ohio are sick with e-coli after eating meat from Valley Meats in Illinois...
E. coli Lawyer - E. coli Outbreak, Illnesses and Death in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illinois Linked to Valley Meats - Is this the beginning of E. coli Season?
Posted on May 25, 2009I did not serve hamburger to my kids at our Memorial Day Barbecue – again. Perhaps after 16 years of Litigating E. coli cases make me more wary than most, or perhaps it is the facts that on family of a seven year old is mourning the loss of their child – because she ate a hamburger...
Ground Beef Recalled From "Establishment" 5712 Hits 172,000 In Single Day With Second Notice From FSIS
Posted on May 22, 2009The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been busy today dealing with "Establishment 5712" at 2302 1st St., Coal Valley, IL 61240-9408. In the morning, USDA's Food Safety & Inspection Service announced the recall of almost 100,000 pounds of ground beef from "Establishment 5712" because the Ohio Department of Health had connected meat from that plant to E...
Coal Valley Meat Processing Plant Has A History Of E. coli 0157:H7 Contamination
Posted on May 22, 2009Ohio health officials have confirmed the death of a 7-year old Cleveland girl due to an E. coli infection related to what is now a multi-state outbreak traced back to a troubled Illinois meatpacker. Yesterday's recall of 96,000 pounds of ground beef from Valley Meats LLC was not a first time offense for the Coal Valley, IL business that is known to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as "Establishment 5712...
Ohio Reports Cluster Of E. coli 0157:H7 Infections Leading To Ground Beef Recall: Are More E. coli Lawsuits In the Future?
Posted on May 21, 2009The Ohio Department of Health reports a cluster of E. coli O157:H7 infections in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, prompting FSIS to announce a HIGH HEALTH RISK, CLASS I RECALL. ILLINOIS FIRM RECALLS GROUND BEEF PRODUCTS DUE E. COLI O157:H7 CONTAMINATION Valley Meats LLC, a Coal Valley, Ill...
Chicken Industry Wins In 10th Circuit Over State of Oklahoma In "Poultry Litter" Case
Posted on May 18, 2009In a 2-to-1 vote, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled against the State of Oklahoma in the ongoing "poultry litter" litigation. The action continues a federal trial court's denial of Oklahoma's motion to stop Tyson Foods and other chicken companies from dumping "poultry litter" on land within the Illinois River Basin...
FSIS Routine Testing Discovers Contaminated Beef In Arkansas
Posted on May 12, 2009Routine testing by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) found that ground beef produced by Bob's Food City, a Hot Springs, Arkansas based retailer was contaminated with the deadly E coli 0157:H7. The finding brought today's recall by the grocer of 375 pounds of ground beef...
Prom Queen Is E. Coli Victim And Cannot Go; So Prom Comes To Her Hospital
Posted on May 10, 2009Spring break in Mexico has left Fishers High School prom queen in the hospital with E. coli since April 18th, unable to attend the big event. But thanks to her friends from school and an understanding Indianapolis Hospital staff, the prom came to the queen...
New York Wholesaler Recalls Nearly 5,000 Pounds Of E. Coli Contaminated Ground Beef
Posted on May 06, 2009FSIS is out with a recall of approximately 4,663 pounds of ground beef products from Alex & George Wholesale, Inc., a Rochester, New York firm, because they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The following products are subject to recall: * 10-pound poly bag of "A & G Brand BULK GROUND BEEF" * 10-pound poly bag of "A & G Brand 'HOT SAUCE' SPECIAL BLEND" * 25-pound poly bag of "A & G Brand BULK GROUND BEEF" * 30-pound poly bag of "A & G Brand BULK GROUND BEEF" * 10-pound case of (3-1) "A & G Brand GROUND BEEF PATTIES" * 10-pound case of (5-1) "A & G Brand GROUND BEEF PATTIES" * 10-pound case of "A & G Brand 'Homestyle Press' GROUND BEEF PATTIES" * 10-pound case of (6-1) "A & G Brand GROUND BEEF PATTIES" * Cases containing 48, 4...
Raleigh Wedding Reception E. coli O157:H7 Cases Settle
Posted on May 03, 2009On October 22, The General Communicable Disease Control Branch (GCDC) of North Carolina was contacted by a guest and family member of the bride to report an outbreak of gastroenteritis caused by E. coli O157:H7, associated with a catered wedding reception held in Raleigh on October 13, 2007...
After Nearly Two Years, Victims Of United Food Group, LLC (UFG) E. coli Outbreak Settle
Posted on May 01, 2009In June of 2007, United Food Group, LLC (UFG) recalled 5.7 million pounds of ground beef products after a joint investigation into an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak by Colorado and California health officials in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) led to the conclusion that UFG ground beef was the source of the outbreak...
Campaign Underway In UK To Make It Illegal To Provide Advance Warnings Of E. coli Inspections
Posted on April 30, 2009In the United Kingdom, Professor Hugh Pennington wants all food inspections, primary and secondary, to be unannounced unless 'there are specific and justifiable circumstances or reasons why a pre-arranged visit is necessary'. The Wales News reports that: In his report into the 2005 epidemic that struck down more than 150 people, most of them children, across the South Wales Valleys and claimed the life of Mason Jones, aged five, Professor Hugh Pennington found that all of the inspections made at the premises of the butcher responsible in the months before people became ill had been pre-arranged...
The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) Issues Final Report on E. coli 0111 Outbreak Linked to Food Served at Country Cottage Restaurant in Locust Grove
Posted on April 10, 2009Outbreak Statistics At a Glance Source of Outbreak: Country Cottage Restaurant, Locust Grove, OK Outbreak Organism: E. coli O111:NM Vehicle of Contamination: Unknown Method of Spread: Foodborne transmission Confirmed Outbreak Period: Aug. 15-24, 2008 Cases: 341 Hospitalizations: 70 Deaths: 1 The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) released its final report today on the investigation of the largest E...
E coli Showing Up In Too Much Arkansas Private Well Water
Posted on April 07, 2009Now the safety of private water wells is being called into question in Arkansas. "We don't recommend that people drink water with E. coli in it under any circumstances. There's no safe level of E. coli as far as we're concerned," says Ed Barum...
E. coli O157:H7 Season is Nearly Upon Us - Will it be 2005 and 2006 or 2007 and 2008?
Posted on April 05, 2009The presence of E. coli O157:H7 in hamburger was defined as an adulterant under the Federal Meat Inspection Act in 1994. However, recalls of E. coli O157:H7 contaminated meat and related illnesses continued over the next decade to grow, as did my law firm...
National Western Stock Show Is Focus Of Colorado Report On Front Range E. Coli Outbreak Due Out Soon
Posted on March 28, 2009Colorado's state government, from the Legislature on down, was closed Friday due to a spring snowstorm that dumped up to a couple of feet of snow on parts of metro Denver. Most state workers were sent home around 1 p.m. Thursday and won't be returning until Monday morning...
Chicken lawyers Want To Depose Oklahoma's Attorney General
Posted on March 24, 2009Now let's get this straight. The State of Oklahoma has sued the poultry industry led by Tyson Foods in federal court to stop the application of poultry litter as fertilizer in the Illinois River watershed. Then when Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson suggests poultry litter pollution could be the cause of last summer's unsolved E coli 0111 outbreak in Locust Grove, which is well outside the IR watershed, Tyson's pr operation charges the AG with trying to influence potential jurors in the IR case...
UK Issues Report of Official Inquiry On 2005 E Coli Outbreak In Wales
Posted on March 19, 2009The United Kingdom has finished the inquiry into the island nation's second worst E. coil outbreak in its history. In the 2005 outbreak, there were 157 cases of E.coli at 44 schools, with 31 children needing hospital treatment. And five-year old Mason Jones, of the Deri Primary School, near Bargoed, South Wales, died...
CDC Finds No E Coli 0111 In Oklahoma Well Tests
Posted on March 11, 2009The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found plenty of E. coli bacteria in the test samples from private wells in the Locust Grove, OK area. CDC found E coli 0141, E coli 0179 and E coli 0113. All are types of bacteria that can cause illness in humans But CDC found no E coli 0111, the rare strain that killed a man and made 313 others sick last year after they dined at the Country Cottage restaurant in Locust Grove...
More E. Coli Found In Locust Grove, OK Water Wells
Posted on March 06, 2009The testing of private water wells in and around Locust Grove, OK continues with the number testing positive for E. coli has increasing to 20. Three additional drinking water wells were found positive for E. coli. The well testing has also found total coliform bacteria contamination in some wells...
Water Tests Positive For E coli; Locust Grove Is Contaminated
Posted on February 25, 2009With this report out of the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, there are two questions that need answers. First, can DEQ be specific about the strain of E. coli? And, second, can DEQ provide a map of the locations with positive results...
E Coli Outbreak Hits Day Care In Cook County
Posted on February 25, 2009E. coli at a Lemont, IL day care is responsible for making 21 children and one adult ill in an outbreak that began in early February. The Cook County Health Department has ordered tests for all children and adults at the KinderCare Learning Center, 12404 Archer Ave...
We Call It Political Courage--Kudos To Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson
Posted on February 20, 2009For a company with a corporate rap sheet that's longer than most, you have to admire the brash spokesman for Tyson Foods. We are talking about the one who wrote an email to the media stating that: "There has never been a single, documented instance of a water-borne bacteriological disease being caused by the use of poultry litter...
Oklahoma's AG Says Poultry Litter May Be Responsible For Country Cottage Outbreak
Posted on February 16, 2009Last summer a man was killed and 300 people became ill with an unusual strain of E coli 0111. All were connected to people who were customers of the Country Cottage restaurant in Locust Grove, OK. But no definite water or food source was found for the E...
Front Range Children Down With E. coli After Visiting National Western Stock Show
Posted on February 05, 2009Twenty people, including 17 children, from up and down Colorado's Front Range are suffering from confirmed cases of E. coli, Denver Public Health officials said today. The common thread -- all attended the National Western Stock Show held in late January in the Mile High City...
Settlement Reached in 2006 E. coli Case Involving Nebraska Beef
Posted on February 02, 2009I’ve been waiting a long time to make this post – more than two years. Today we settled a lawsuit against Nebraska Beef Inc. on behalf of two Longville, Minnesota families, those of Ellie Wheeler and Carolyn Hawkinson. We have been litigating for a long, long, time, and today a settlement was reached (for an undisclosed sum)...
Girl Gets E. Coli And Then HUS--All From Touching Deer Meat
Posted on January 06, 2009You can’t even trust Bambi anymore. Doug Powell, from Barfblog, emailed me the story of a young girl who suffered HUS after contracting an E. coli infection from handling deer meat. Beverly said the only other thing she could think of was that her husband, Red, had shot a deer the Friday after Thanksgiving...
E. Coli Recalls Slowed Some In 2008; But We Are Still Talking About MILLIONS OF POUNDS
Posted on January 02, 2009Okay, so 2008 was NOT as big a year for E. coli recalls as was 2007. Total amount of beef recalled last year was around seven million pounds; far less than the 29 million pounds recalled during 2007. Still, we are talking about measurements in the MILLIONS OF POUNDS, something that we could not even get our heads around two years ago when there were just six recalls...
Mystery In Dixon And No Plans To Solve It--But Hey You Are OK!
Posted on December 28, 2008It's hard to believe, but there is a county in the big, rich state of California where an E. coli death does not even get a full ten days worth of investigation before the case is closed without finding a source. Oh, but public health officials involved can assure the public that the county's restaurant food and water is all safe...
9-Year Old Girl Has To Take Ag Giant Cargill To Court To Get Justice
Posted on December 24, 2008When the Minnesota-based Agricultural giant Cargill dumps on you...well it is not a pretty site. The privately-owned company still 85 percent controlled by the descendants of the MacMillan and Cargill families. It clicks off $1 billion in profits a quarter and its $120 billion in annual revenues would put it in the top 20 if it were publicly traded and eligible for the Fortune 500...
Dixon, CA Child Dies From E Coli Infection
Posted on December 20, 2008pA nbsp;Dixon, CA child died of an a href="http://www.about-ecoli.com/"E. coli infection /alate Thursday, according to Solano County Public Health officials.nbsp; They were investigating the death along with testing on a second Dixon child nbsp;who displayed some symptoms but is now home and quot;doing well...
R&S Meats Is Defendant In E. Coli Lawsuit Filed On Behalf of Two Children
Posted on December 15, 2008Two separate lawsuits were filed against R & S Meats, Inc. in New York State today: one in Brooklyn, at the U. S. District Court, Eastern District, and the second in Riverhead, at the New York State Supreme Court. The lawsuits were filed on behalf of children infected with E...
Ontario E Coli Outbreak Over; Source Was NOT Confirmed
Posted on December 09, 2008The E. coli outbreak up in Ontario that dates back to October has officially been declared over. It impacted the hammer-head southeast area of Ontario that is closest to the United States. Health officials tied the outbreak to romaine lettuce, but could not nail down the precise source...
Family Says Their Mother Died From E Coli
Posted on December 05, 2008Deaths of elderly people suffering from other illnesses that are ultimately struck down by E. coli or Salmonella often end up with a confused death certificate being issued. We saw that during the recent Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak when the two men who died were recovering from un-related diseases when what they ate proved fatal...
44th Recall of the Year Is A Small One
Posted on November 25, 2008Long Branch, NJ-based Dutch Prime Foods Inc. yesterday recalled 345 pounds of ground beef due to contamination from E coli 0157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service reported. The Class 1, High Health Risk Recall involves ground beef products were produced on Nov...
Site of Largest E Coli 0111 Outbreak in History Re-Opens In Oklahoma
Posted on November 23, 2008Just a couple days short of three months of being closed after being cited as the source of the largest E. coli 0111 outbreak in modern history, the Country Cottage In Locus Grove, OK re-opened this weekend. The restaurant located 50 miles east of Tulsa off the Cherokee Turnpike was allowed to re-open after reaching an agreement with state health officials...
The Topps Story Continues As Some Cases Are Settled
Posted on November 14, 2008After two days of mediation in New York City earlier this week, our own Bill Marler was able to resolve several cases. However, a number were left unresolved. As readers recall, on August 31, 2007 a consumer complaint was filed with the USDA after a Florida resident fell ill after consuming a hamburger patty produced by Topps Meat Company (“Topps”) on July 12, 2007...
Yep, You Can Get E. coli 0157:H7 From Getting Too Friendly With Wild Elk
Posted on November 12, 2008Unless you reside in the Rocky Mountains where wild Elk come every winter looking for food and warmth, you probably do not have to worry about this one. However, if you or your kids go to someplace like Evergreen High School southwest of Denver, chances are Elk many times have rested on your football field or golf course...
Two E. Coli 0157:H7 Cases Confirmed in Fayetteville, TN
Posted on November 11, 2008Tennessee has two laboratory-confirmed cases of E.coli 0157 from the Fayetteville-Lincoln County area with an ongoing investigation into what made as many as 180 people sick. At this point, the Tennessee Department of Health is clueless about the source of the contamination...
U.S.-Canadian Outbreaks May Be Linked
Posted on November 10, 2008E. coli outbreaks in Halton, Niagara and Waterloo that have sickened hundreds have been linked by DNA tests showing they share the same rare genetic makeup. Public health officials are also investigating whether E. coli cases at the University of Guelph have the same DNA fingerprint...
Apple Cider Suspected in Tri State E coli Outbreak
Posted on October 30, 2008Apple cider is suspected as a the cause of E coli poisonings in Iowa and Illinois. There are now a half dozen E coli cases in the area. According to WKOW-TV in Madison,Wisconsin: There are now six confirmed cases of E coli in the Tri-States, and a source might have been discovered among the ones in Southeast Iowa...
Third Restaurant Closes Due to E Coli Outbreak in Ontario
Posted on October 30, 2008There are fewer restaurants open in Ontario due to E coli outbreaks. Add M.T. Bellies in Welland to the list that already includes the Little Red Rooster restaurant in Niagara-on-the-Lake and Harvey's in North Bay--all closed because they are associated with ongoing E coli outbreaks...
Second Ontario Restaurant Making Its Customers Sick With E Coli
Posted on October 28, 2008There are almost 400 miles between the Harvey's restaurant in North Bay and the Little Red Rooster restaurant in Niagara-on-the-Lake, but the two Ontario restaurants may be sharing a E. coli outbreak. In North Bay, the number of confirmed E. Coli cases was up to 229...
Iztapa Restaurant in Washington State Sued By E Coli Victim
Posted on October 24, 2008The first lawsuit stemming from the Snohomish county E. coli outbreak was filed earlier this week in the Superior Court for the State of Washington, County of Snohomish. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the minor child of Alison and Ray Riojas of Snohomish County, against Ixtapa Family Mexican Restaurant, which has been identified as the source of the outbreak...
North Bay E Coli Outbreak Grows To 190
Posted on October 22, 2008Harvey's restaurant in North Bay, Ontario must have been a popular place. The number of E coli 0157:H7 cases linked to Harvey's increased today to 190, up from 158 just a day earlier. Of those, 36 have been confirmed by laboratory results...
Michigan State E Coli Victim Files Lawsuit
Posted on October 22, 2008A University of Michigan student has filed a lawsuit against Detroit-based Aunt Mid's Produce in connection with a statewide E. coli outbreak last month. The lawsuit -- the second against Aunt Mid's since the outbreak -- was filed Monday in Washtenaw County Circuit Court on behalf of a U-M senior who alleges she was sickened in the outbreak, which has been linked to Aunt Mid's...
Ontario, Vermont, & Washington State All Tracking E. coli Outbreaks; Meat Recall Underway
Posted on October 20, 2008We are beginning to wonder if the number and seriousness of E. coli 0157:H7 has become so routine that its like background music. The North Bay, Ontario outbreak has reached 159 confirmed and suspected cases, say Canadian health officials...
Oklahoma Was Slow To Close Popular Locust Grove Restaurant
Posted on October 19, 2008The Oklahoma State Health Department arrived in Locust Grove at nightfall last Aug. 22nd to investigate multiple reports of food poisoning in the area. They knew by the next day that the Country Cottage restaurant was implicated in the outbreak, but allowed popular family dining spot to remain open until it closed voluntarily three days later on Aug...
Harvey's Restaurant in North Bay Linked To E. Coli Outbreak
Posted on October 15, 2008Canada has seen more of its fair share of food-borne illness in recent months, especially with the Maple Leaf listeria outbreak that has killed 20. Now its got a full-blown E. coli outbreak on its hands as well. Ontario's North Bay Parry Sound Health District today is reporting its: ...
E coli Kills Kansas Boys in Witchita Medical Center
Posted on October 14, 2008There is a lot of Kansas separating the towns of Liberal and Matfield Green. Liberal is an Oklahoma panhandle border town. The 20,000 who make Liberal home depend on oil, gas, and helium as well as agriculture. Its closer to Denver, Colorado than Kansas City, Kansas...
E coli Contamination Brings Recall of Nicaraguan Beef
Posted on October 13, 2008In a world where financial markets around the globe can all either light up or melt down in an instant, the path meat takes to our tables should not come as a surprise. Still, we are reminded how quickly these linkages can catch up with us when the United States is recalling Nicaraguan-produced beef being distributed by a packer in Puerto Rico...
Just Another Week of E. coli Taking Victims In Amercia
Posted on October 11, 2008We thought we'd do something different today, and just give a rundown on the E, coli news we've been involved in. Every week is getting to be E. coli week in America. This is a look-back on the last one. Here we go! We received several calls last Monday from sorority sisters who had been sickened by E...
Raw Milk Farms Celebrate; Their Product Sends Three To Hospital
Posted on October 05, 2008Today farms selling raw milk in Vermont held open houses. They invited city and town folk to "hop from farm to farm and spend the afternoon getting to know the farmers, dairy cows and goats in your community and beyond. Tour the farms, taste the milk, and even purchase a gallon to bring home!" When they picked Sunday, Oct...
Boulder, Where The Rich Always Keep Secrets, Won't Say Which Sorority Has E coli Outbreak
Posted on October 02, 2008Public Health Officials Investigating wave of E. coli cases Boulder County Public Health (BCPH) is currently investigating a cluster of E. coli O157:H7 infections associated with students attending the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU). Since September 23rd, BCPH has investigated eight related cases...
Outbreak May Be Over, But Suffering Continues In Locust Grove, OK
Posted on September 30, 2008There are places with bad karma and it makes you wonder why. Locust Grove, OK is such a place. The town of 1500 was, 30 years ago, the center for the murders of three Girl Scouts at camp. Murders that remain unsolved. Then there was the more recent killing of an elderly couple south of town...
Michigan E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak Linked to Bagged Lettuce, Again. Food Safety Attorney, William Marler, Gives History Lesson.
Posted on September 27, 2008This is a press release being distributed by Marler Clark: Seattle--- “E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks associated with lettuce or spinach, specifically the "pre-washed" and "ready-to-eat" varieties sold under various brand and trade names, are by no means a new phenomenon,” according to food-safety attorney, William D...
If Your "Aunt Mid's" Place Is In Detroit, You've Got A Problem!
Posted on September 26, 2008The Michigan Department of Community Health is issuing a public health alert after dozens of cases of E. coli surfaced. It now appears the E. coli outbreak is linked to iceberg lettuce that came from a wholesale distributor. As a precautionary measure, the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) is issuing a public health alert due to illnesses from the 26 cases of E...
Colorado Infant Death Linked To Unlicensed Day Care
Posted on September 24, 2008Bill Scanlon at the Rocky Mountain News this morning is reporting with some detail on the Colorado 3-year old who died Friday of E coli O17:H7. According to The Rocky: The Aurora day-care facility attended by a 3-year-old who died Friday of an E...
Ten Students At Michigan State University Are Down With E. coli 0157:H7
Posted on September 16, 2008The“particularly dangerous” type of E coli (0157:H7) is said to be responsible for an outbreak at Michigan State University. Ten students living on campus are sick. According to the Detroit Free Press: Tests have confirmed that the strain of E...
Oklahoma Says Country Cottage Outbreak Is Over
Posted on September 16, 2008“The spread of E. coli 0111 in this outbreak was directly related to the (Country Cottage) restaurant,” said State Epidemiologist Dr. Kristy Bradley. And with that statement, Oklahoma health officials declared the E. coli 0111 outbreak over...
More E. coli Cases In OK-A Clue In Broken Arrow?
Posted on September 15, 2008The wording that has been used in the Oklahoma State Health Department releases have left us with no doubt that the number of victims in the E. coli 0111 outbreak could continue to increase. That happened on Friday, when the total number climbed to 291...
Oklahoma Says Food Samples Are Clean; Mystery Continures
Posted on September 11, 2008The laboratory analysis of food samples taken from the Country Cottage restaurant found no disease-causing pathogens, the Oklahoma State Health Department (OSHD) announced today. Earlier, no disease-causing pathogens were found in either the well water available for use at the Country Cottage nor the Locust Grove public water...
OSDH Updates Numbers In E coli 0111 Outbreak
Posted on September 10, 2008While we wait for laboratory analysis of food samples from the Country Cottage restaurant in Locust Grove, OK, there was this update: The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) said today at least 231 persons have become ill as the result of an E...
Food is Final Focus of Investigation into E. coli 0111 Outbreak
Posted on September 09, 2008The largest outbreak of E. coli 0111 remains unsolved. Here's the latest from state officials: The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) said today that analysis of environmental samples taken from the Country Cottage restaurant in Locust Grove, OK, indicated no disease-causing pathogens were found on the restaurant’s surfaces...
CDC Joins Oklahoma Investigation Into E Coli 0100 Outbreak: Locust Grove Suffers Along With Victims
Posted on September 05, 2008There is no reason now to get off the Cherokee Turnpike, northeastern Oklahoma's toll road, at Locust Grove. The Country Cottage remains closed, few want to go to any other Locust Grove restaurants, and they've even called off a high school football game...
Boy Scout Zachary Yost Sues S&S Foods LLC
Posted on September 03, 2008A Boy Scout who was infected by E. coli O157:H7 while attending camp in Virginia filed suit today in the Circuit Court of Rockbridge County. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Zachary Yost and his mother, Devon Drew, against S & S Foods LLC. The plaintiffs are represented by Marler Clark, a Seattle law firm dedicated to representing victims of foodborne illness, and Maryland attorney Benson Klein of Ward & Klein...
E. coli 0111 Outbreak Continues To Increase East of Tulsa
Posted on August 31, 2008The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) reports this weekend that at least 176 persons have become ill as a result of the E. coli O111 outbreak in northeastern Oklahoma. Cases include 128 adults and 48 children. Federal and state health officials say E...
Country Cottage's Use Of Private Well Water May Have Been Fatal
Posted on August 30, 2008The outbreak of a rare strain of E. coli centered east of Tulsa has now made 116 people sick, put 50 into area hospitals and taken at least one life. The Oklahoman today is reporting that well water tests at the Country Cottage restaurant are raising more questions about the source of the deadly E...
Tulsa's 2 Discovers Country Cottage Has Dirty Record
Posted on August 29, 2008Beth Burnett at KJRH-TV 2 in Tulsa appears to be digging into that area's E. coli outbreak, finding that the ill-fated Country Cottage restaurant has a long history of negative inspections by local health authorities. The popular Locust Grove, OK restaurant racked up a staggering 88 health violations in the last four years...
Connecticut Finds It Was E. coli With That Raw Milk
Posted on August 29, 2008On July 16th, 2008 the Connecticut Department of Agriculture began an investigation of a possible link between several reported illnesses and the consumption of Retail Raw Milk (unpasteurized milk). Recently we concluded that investigation. The investigation was prompted when the Department was notified by Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) Epidemiologists of 2 reported illnesses in which both patients had consumed Retail Raw Milk from a dairy licensed to produce Retail Raw Milk and pasteurized milk and milk products...
Picking Through The Menu At Country Cottage Won't Be Easy
Posted on August 27, 2008Some restaurants have simple menus and if they have a food poisoning incident it is fairly easy for investigators to track the sources of the food. Then, there are restaurants like the Country Cottage in Locust Grove, OK, which is the center of that area's possible E...
Locust Grove, OK's Country Cottage Said Responsible For Death and Illnesses
Posted on August 25, 2008Locust Grove, Oklahoma, population 1400, is about 50 miles east of Tulsa. A local hamburger joint called D.J.'s was made famous by local country-western star Mica Roberts. But an apparent outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7 is making another Locust Grove restaurant famous in the worst way...
Raw Milk
Posted on August 21, 2008An ambitious and well-meaning attempt to make California’s dairy products safer arrives this week in the California Assembly in the form of State Bill 201—but the country’s top food safety advocates are calling on California legislators to vote against it...
Colorado and Wyoming Stores Want Bad Nebraska Beef Back
Posted on August 20, 2008Two units of the Kroger grocery store empire, King Soopers and City Markets, who are unfortunate enough to be big customers of Nebraska Beef Limited are asking their own customers for help recovering E. coli tainted beef. The Denver-based King Soopers and City Market stores are asking customers to check for the following recalled frozen ground beef patties: Kroger Ground Beef Patties - 73% Lean / 27% Fat in 3-pound packages with a "sell by" date of 11/06/08 and the following UPC code: 11110 97981...
USDA Policies Questioned By Attorney Denis W. Stearns
Posted on August 18, 2008Guest Blog by Denis W. Stearns: On October 3, 2002 I submitted a petition to the USDA in which I asked the agency to explicitly clarify whether a USDA policy that appeared to allow the deadly pathogen E. coli O157:H7 on so-called “intact meat” applied to meat sold to retail outlets like grocery stores and restaurants...
Marler Blog Hot With E. coli News: Here's The Rundown
Posted on August 14, 2008Here's a quick rundown on the E. coli posts filed on the Marler blog in recent days: Nebraska Beef Recalls More E. coli Contaminated Beef Product More Companies Joining the 2007-2008 E. coli Recall Club Topps Meat and Nebraska Beef - What's in Common? 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...
Renna's Meat Market In Fresno Recalls Ground Beef
Posted on August 13, 2008Renna's Meat Market at First Street and Ashlan Avenue in Fresno, CA, is recalling 780 pounds of ground beef due to possible contamination with E. coli 0157:H7. According to the Food Safety & Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture: These ground beef products were distributed to restaurants and sold to consumers in the Fresno, Calif...
Pay E. Coli Boy Scouts' Medical Bills and Parents Lost Wages, Marler Clark Urges S&S Foods
Posted on August 10, 2008"Blog Release"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 Recalls 1.2 million Pounds
Posted on August 09, 2008USDA – FSIS Recall Release FSIS-RC-029-2008CLASS 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...
84 Boy Scouts With Symptoms of E. coli 0157:H7
Posted on August 08, 2008Lisa 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...
Beef Industry Food Safety System "Clearly Broken," Marler Says As FSIS Announces Yet Another Recall
Posted on August 07, 2008Bill Marler, writing on the Marler Blog, earlier today not only had the worldwide exclusive on the beef recall connected to the Northern Virginia Boy Scout camp, but he has also declared an "E coli crisis" in America. Bill reported the recall in: S&S Foods LLC of California Linked to Boy Scout E...
E. coli O157:H7 Tainted Hamburger Linked to Boy Scout Illnesses in Virginia
Posted on August 04, 2008One 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...
Are Massachusetts E. coli Cases Linked To Multi-State Outbreak?
Posted on August 04, 2008Outbreaks of E. coli 0157:H7 continue around the country with the latest coming in Massachusetts where at least six people are sick and beef is the suspected source of the illness. Both the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the United States Department of Agriculture investigated over the weekend...
As Many as 78 Goshen Reservation Scouts Sickened - 10 Hospitalized - Possibly Due to E. coli Contaminated Beef and Vegetables
Posted on August 03, 2008I 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...
E coli
Posted on July 28, 2008E. coli bacteria: what are they, where did they come from, and why are some so dangerous? Escherichia coli (E. coli) are members of a large group of bacterial germs that inhabit the intestinal tract of humans and other warm blooded animals (mammals, birds)...
Cargill Meat Subject to Recall for E. coli O157:H7 Contamination
Posted on July 24, 2008Not exactly a big one, but still a Class I, High health risk recall of 1,560 pounds of beef cheek products because they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 was announced late today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety & Inspection Service (FSIS)...
E. coli O157:H7 is a powerful and deadly bacterium
Posted on July 19, 2008You cannot see it, taste it, or smell it. 250,000 E. coli O157:H7 (E. coli) bacteria will fit on the head of a pin. Ten to 50 will kill your child or your grandmother.More likely due the expertise of Children’s Hospitals, and other top medical centers around the country, deaths at times are avoided, however, often not before Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) nearly kills...
Georgia E. coli Case Now Officially Linked To Nebraska Beef Multi-State Outbreak
Posted on July 17, 2008Official release from the Southwest Public Health District (in Georgia).The National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are now citing a Colquitt County case as part of a multi-state outbreak linked to beef infected with E. coli 0157.“This is not a new case...
Multistate Outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections - Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, New York, and Ohio
Posted on July 15, 2008The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today issued a report on the multi-state E. coli outbreak. It was silent on the ten cases in Georgia that remain under investigation. Here's most of what was said in the report with a link at the end for the rest, which was mostly about consumer food safety...
Eight Confirmed E. coli Cases In Georgia; Four Pending -- Nebraska Beef Moved Too Slow For USDA
Posted on July 08, 2008Here are two things that come as no surprise. First, Nebraska Beef Limited (some would say very limited) is not playing nice with the United States Department of Agriculture. Second, the number of confirmed E. coli 0157:H7 cases in southern Georgia continues to increase...
Nine Georgians and Moultrie Barbecue Pit Latest Victims of Nebraska Beef E. coli - Including Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) Cases
Posted on July 05, 2008The Moultrie Observer reported on the link between ill people in Ohio and Michigan to at least nine in Georgia – “E. coli: Ground beef may be culprit.” The common denominator here is Nebraska Beef Ltd. (Remember, the guys who sue a church)...
Nebraska Beef Expands Recall To FIVE POINT THREE MILLION POUNDS!
Posted on July 03, 2008Scratch Nebraska Beef from your July 4th menu. The notorious Omaha slaughterhouse today expanded its June 30th recall to FIVE POINT THREE MILLION POUNDS! The recall now includes all beef trimmings and other products intended for use in raw ground beef processed between May 16 and June 26, 2008...
Kroger Expands Recall To Fry's; Ralph's; Smith's;Baker's;King Soopers: & City Markets
Posted on July 02, 2008It is always at this point in a Big Beef recall that some corporate suit makes a statement that sounds like it was given after they were worked over by a homicide detective: "It's on ground beef products in a Styrofoam tray with clear cellophane over it," Kroger spokeswoman Meghan Glynn said this morning...
Ohio/Michigan E. coli Outbreak Linked To Nebraska Beef; Big Recall In the Works; We Are Shocked!
Posted on July 01, 2008Omaha's notorious Nebraska Beef is responsible for a new Class 1, High Health risk recall of 531,707 pounds of "ground beef components" that may be contaminated with E. coli 0157:H7. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service made the announcement late Monday...
First E. coli Lawsuit filed in Kroger Tainted Ground Beef Recall
Posted on June 30, 2008The first E. coli lawsuit in the Ohio and Michigan E. coli outbreak was filed today in the Court of Common Pleas in Franklin County, Ohio against Kroger and its as yet unidentified meat supplier (“John Doe”). The complaint was filed by Marler Clark attorneys on behalf of a New Albany resident who was infected with the toxic E...
Michigan and Ohio E. coli Cases Hit at Least 39
Posted on June 27, 2008As of 4 pm on June 27, the Michigan Department of Community Health has confirmed 17 E. coli O157:H7 cases that are genetically linked and over half of those cases have either prepared or consumed hamburger meat from Kroger. 11 of these cases required hospitalization...
Ohio/Michigan E. coli Outbreak Spurs Kroger To Recall Ground Beef
Posted on June 25, 2008The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is out tonight with a Class 1, High Health Risk recall of ground beef products sold by the Ohio-based Kroger grocery store chain. The ground beef products may be contaminated with E...
Kroger, Recall Your E. coli Contaminated Meat and Tell The Public Who Supplied It, Says William D. Marler, Food Safety Attorney
Posted on June 25, 2008With the Michigan State Health Department linking Kroger ground beef to many of the illnesses in Michigan (which have also been linked to illnesses in Ohio), Kroger must recall all possibly contaminated ground beef said Seattle food safety attorney William D...
E. coli strikes in Michigan and in Ohio - Kroger Common Link? What Happened to New Jersey Meat Producer? Why no recall?
Posted on June 25, 2008Recall, Recall, where is the recall? We know that dozens of people are sickened in Michigan in Ohio, but FSIS/USDA has not issued a recall? I can not imagine why there would not be, perhaps they thought since we are focused on tomatoes no one would notice? We have also been contacted by victims in other states who may be linked to a nationwide E...
E coli Found In Meat At Kroger's Store In Ohio
Posted on June 24, 2008A spokesman for Kroger Stores in Ohio tonight is confirming one of their outlets sold meat that the Ohio Health Department found contaminated with E. coli. The Kroger spokesman told NBC 4 in Columbus that the grocery store chain is working with its suppliers to track down the origin of the bad meat...
USDA Knows Best Cuts of Beef Being Sold With E. coli
Posted on June 22, 2008If it is the weekend, there is almost always something to read by Phil Brasher in the Des Moines Register. In "Many beef cuts are never tested for E. coli," Brasher reports that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is about to close the door on the sale of E...
12th New E. coli Case In Columbus, Ohio Area
Posted on June 17, 2008The 12th case of E. coli in the Columbus, Ohio area has health officials officially calling it an outbreak. They say none of the cases have a a genetic link to the 52-year old Gahanna, Ohio who died from E. coli compliations on May 27th. But since then, central Ohio has seen a dozen more cases and they are searching for a source of the bacteria...
Ohio E. coli Outbreak Grows To 11 New Cases
Posted on June 16, 2008First it was seven, and now it is 11; and it has nothing to do with Baby needing a new pair of shoes. It is a growing E. coli outbreak in the Columbus, Ohio area. In our two previous posts, we reported on an E. coli-related death in late May; followed by 7 new cases of E...
Ohio Health Officials Study E. coli Cluster - 7 More Victims Since Death
Posted on June 14, 2008We reported on the death E coli victim in Franklin County, Ohio earlier this month. Since that report, health officials in Central Ohio have come up with 7 additional cases. A 55-year-old Delaware County woman who was hospitalized for three days with an E...
E coli Discovered In Dutch's Meat: Recall Underway
Posted on June 09, 2008There’s a Class 1, High Health Risk recall of 13,275 pounds of ground beef underway in the Trenton, N.J. area due to possible contamination with E. coli 0157:H7. The recall involving Dutch’s Meat, Inc. of Trenton was announced Sunday (6/8/08) by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)...
E. coli Outbreak At Minnesota Day Care Center
Posted on June 08, 2008The town of Slayton in Southwest Minnesota isn't much. A couple thousand people living around the intersection of a couple of highways. Still, it's experiencing an unusual share of food-borne illnesses. In May 2007, a couple of restaurant workers at Slayton's Pizza Ranch were said to be responsible for a Hepatitis A outbreak that required 1,200 people to get shots or vaccines...
Romaine Lettuce Source Of E coli Outbreak In Washington State
Posted on June 06, 2008Late night news developments seem to be getting common. Here's what's just been filed on the Marler blog: King 5 TV just reported that the Washington State Department of Health announced that nine confirmed cases of E. coli O157:H7 infection found in north Thurston and south Pierce counties (appears to be college students - food service) have been traced to bagged, commercial romaine lettuce...
E coli Related Death Reported In Franklin County, Ohio
Posted on June 05, 2008Ohio's Franklin County Health Department tonight (6/4/08) is reporting that the death of a 52-year old Gahanna woman on May 27th was E. coli-related. Ohio has had 12 confirmed cases of E. coli so far this year. There were 92 confirmed cases in 2007 and 160 the year before...
E. coli Victim Sues Yum For $5 Million
Posted on May 30, 2008The Reading Eagle this morning (5/30) reports that Yum Brands, parent company of Taco Bell, is being sued for $5 million in federal court by Debra Moyer of Boyertown. The newspaper said the woman was the victim of E coli contaminated food served by a Gilbertsville Taco Bell in 2006...
Amish Macaroni Salad Recalled--Voluntarily, Due To E. coli
Posted on May 29, 2008When the U.S. Food & Drug Administration announces your recall on its website, it's not like you really have a choice. Nonetheless, most companies use the occasion to tout how they've acted voluntarily. This one is good example: Orval Kent Foods is voluntarily recalling approximately 23,000 pounds of Amish Macaroni Salad that may pose a health risk...
Tyson "Chubs" Sold To Sherm's Food In Medford May Be Tainted With E. Coli 0157:H7
Posted on May 22, 2008The U.S. Food Safety & Inspection Service is out with an "alert" about beef due to possible contamination with E. coli O157:H7. The public health alert is for approximately 808 pounds of ground beef products produced at Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc...
Victim of Taco Bell E. coli Outbreak Sues Yum Brands
Posted on May 21, 2008An E. coli lawsuit was filed today against Yum Brands—the parent company of Taco Bell—in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Debra Moyer, a resident of Boyertown, PA, who became gravely ill with an E...
JSM Recalls Ground Beef: How Much Isn't Known
Posted on May 17, 2008More beef is being recalled due to concern about possible contamination by E. coli 0157:H7. JSM Meat Holdings Company, Inc., a Chicago, Ill., firm, is voluntarily recalling an undetermined amount of beef products intended for use in ground products because they may be contaminated with E...
U.S. Military Defends Against Attack by E coli On Elite Bases
Posted on May 16, 2008The United States Department of Defense is taking---well some defense against E. coli O157:H7---by mounting a recall of all 85 percent lean ground beef sold during May in commissaries on certain military bases around the country.DOD issued the recalled after conducting lab tests on one beef supplier to the military...
Your Chance Of Picking Up The Wrong Pound of Ground Beef: 1 in 400.
Posted on May 13, 2008We've been reading through some of the written comments the United States Department of Agriculture received in conjunction with the big April meeting on E. coli 0157:H7.We found a letter from Dr. Harry F. Hull, a pediatrician from St. Paul, most interesting...
Utah E. Coli Victims Sue Wendy's As It's Consumed By Triarc
Posted on May 08, 2008One thing that has always struck us as odd is the difference between the way society treats individual versus corporate wrongdoing. Take for example, someone who has one drink too much and then drives, ending up causing serious injury or death to someone else...
Canada Says Beef Is Contaminated With E. coli O157:H7
Posted on May 03, 2008Canada has issued a border-to-border "Health Hazard Alert" over ground beef that may be contaminated with E coli O157:H7.This "Health Hazard Alert" in Canada is pretty much like a recall in the United States, except there isn't much focus on returning the product nor on how much meat is actually involved...
Whoever Brought The Roast Beef Might Not Get Invited Back
Posted on April 28, 2008Omaha's Midlands News Service is reporting on a private party in March that went bad, giving many of the guests a bad bout of E. coli. Site of the gathering was Sarpy County, which makes up the southern edge of Omaha's metro area. Midlands' Michael O'Connor reports: State health officials are continuing to investigate an E...
Common Misspellings of E. coli - e.coli, e coli, e cloi, ecoli
Posted on April 18, 2008E. 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...
Rural America Offers To Cure All (But E coli) With Raw Milk
Posted on April 09, 2008M.L. Johnson, writing in the Seattle Post Intelligencer, charts the rapid growth in Raw Milk dairies and she took time to speak with Bill Marler, the Seattle attorney representing children damaged by rural America's money making scheme. She writes:Seattle attorney Bill Marler is suing Organic Pastures, the nation's largest organic raw milk dairy, on behalf of two children who fell ill after consuming its products...
FSIS Wants To Reduce Incidence of Deadly E. coli
Posted on April 04, 2008Next week, the Food Safety & Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is putting reducing the Incidence of E. coli O157:H7 in Raw Beef on the menu in meetings with its many stakeholders.The public sessions will be held on Wednesday, April 9, from 8 a...
2006 E. coli Tainted Spinach Changing Who Pays For Recalls
Posted on April 01, 2008We’ve been doing a lot of thinking about recalls lately. We know its not true, but by their combined actions, we sometimes cannot help but thinking the food industry and its regulators are in cahoots to drag out recalls and confuse the public. When it became apparent that about one third of the 143 million pounds of beef recalled from the ill-fated Chino slaughterhouse was in the meat lockers of the nation’s public schools, we thought about local taxpayers getting stuck with the disposal costs...
E coli Kills 8-Year Old Girl In Ozarks
Posted on March 28, 2008An isolated case in an isolated place where no one has had E coli in four years. However, 8-year old Evie Hope Wray of Theodosia, MO was a confirmed E coli case; one that evolved into Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS), And HUS killed Evie, who was a soccer and cat-loving second-grader at Lutie Elementary School...
FSIS Holding Meeting on E. coli 0157:H7
Posted on March 26, 2008The United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety & Inspection Service is hosting a public meeting on April 9, 2008 titled: E. coli O157:H7 - Addressing the Challenges, Moving Forward With Solutions.FSIS will sponsor the public meeting focused on E...
FSIS's Dr. Richard A. Raymond Tells Congress Why There Have Been More E. coli Recalls
Posted on March 13, 2008Dr. Richard A. Raymond is Medical Doctor from Nebraska. Since July 2005, he has been Undersecretary for Food Safety at the United States Department of Agriculture. He was asked by the U.S. House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations why there's been an uptick in e coli-related recalls...
Outbreak in Texas said to have been caused by shiga-toxins
Posted on March 11, 2008Texas health officials are investigating an outbreak that has already resulted in one death, apparently caused by a Shiga toxin carried by bacteria. KEYE TV reported today that in addition to four cases in Bastrop County, Lee and Fayette Counties have reported illnesses caused by a Shiga toxin-producing bacterium...
Marler's List of Needed Reforms
Posted on March 02, 2008We think the use of such phrases as "tipping point" and "perfect storm" are often over-used. However, something may have happened this past week when comes to meaningful reform of the broken system for food safety.After the cruel treatment of "downer" cows, the assault on the nation's school lunch program, and the nation's biggest beef recall in history, Chairman John D...
USDA Has Yet To Release Audit On E coli Controls
Posted on February 24, 2008We have seen some good work in the past from Philip Brasher, who works out of the Washington, D.C. bureau for the Des Moines Register. On Sunday, Brasher took on the Chino slaughterhouse scandal, which led to the largest recall of beef in U.S. history...
Indiana Report On Galena School Outbreak Due Soon
Posted on February 20, 2008We wish we could say that a story today by The Courier-Journal makes us feel warm and fuzzy. Its about the soon-to-be forthcoming report from the State of Indiana on the last fall's E. coli outbreak at the Galena Elementary School in Floyd County...
"Downer" Cattle More Likely To Carry E coli
Posted on February 18, 2008“The ban on non-ambulatory or ‘downer’ cattle is one of many steps in a robust system to produce safe beef, but it is not the only step taken to ensure the safety of the beef supply. The beef we eat is safe because there are multiple safety hurdles before it arrives at our grocery stores or restaurants...
UK Opens "Public Inquiry" Into Death E coli Victim Mason Jones
Posted on February 12, 2008William Tudor, the butcher jailed for food safety violations, after the meat he supplied schools in the United Kingdom killed young Mason Jones will not be testifying in the public inquiry now being held.Jones death and the illnesses of 118 confirmed cases of E coli O17H7 including 31 children who were sent to hospitals is all connected to Butchers John Tudor and Son in Bridgend, which had the contract to supply cooked meat to the schools service in late 2005...
E. coli lawsuit filed against Organic Pastures
Posted on February 08, 2008Marler Clark filed two E. coli lawsuits against Organic Pastures on February 7, 2008. The lawsuits were filed in Fresno County Superior Court on behalf of two children who developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) secondary to E. coli O157:H7 infection after consuming Organic Pastures raw milk...
Ethanol Industry Disputes Their Grains Increase E. coli
Posted on February 05, 2008Powerful interests often find themselves in the position where they do not care--they don't have to. The nation's ethanol industry may be in just such a position when it comes to concerns that the distiller's grains it produces increases e coli O157H7 in cattle...
Bix Wants Out of Taco John's Lawsuit
Posted on February 01, 2008The e coli-tained lettuce that Taco Johns served to its customers in 2006 continues to be thrown about like a hot potato among those who were involved. Taco Johns sued Bix Produce , Roma, Pacific Marketing and the Wegis Family Limited Partnership in federal court...
Florida Takes 3 Weeks To Recall Cheese With E coli
Posted on January 16, 2008The states and even the federal government generally use the "voluntary recall" method when they discover contaminated food is making its way to consumers. That system is being tested in Florida where the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services has stepped in to recall Santa Rosa Cheese, Naturally Aged White Cheese...
Tennessee family recovering from E. coli
Posted on January 16, 2008Marti Davis of the Knoxville News Sentinel spoke with the McDonald family, whose two children became ill with E. coli infections last fall after eating Cargill ground beef patties. Davis noted that only John McDonald, the children's father, has eaten ground beef since his children's illness...
Marler Demands Agencies Name Names in Recall
Posted on January 15, 2008Since last Saturday night when the federal Food Safety & Inspection Service went public with the recall of 188,000 pounds of ground beef from the Minnesota-based Rochester Meat Co., not much has happened.Well, the profile of the California victim became known...
E coli making people sick prompts Recall
Posted on January 12, 2008Remember the old advertising slogan: "Weekends are Made for Michelob?" But who can kick back and relax on another weekend with a nationwide beef recall due to e coli contamination? This Saturday night special from our friends at the federal Food Safety & Inspection Service is a recall of 188,000 pounds of ground beef produced by the Rochester Meat Company and distributed all across the good Ole USA...
Beef With E coli Sold On Streets of Dallas
Posted on January 09, 2008Health officials in "The Big D" city of Dallas now say they confiscated beef sold off the street to owners of the Chicken Shack, which is located in the 6000 block of Lamar Street, before it could be cooked or sold to anyone else.The suspected source of the beef is the stolen trailer, which was taken from the parking lot of the Texas American Food Service on Dec...
Was A Beef Deal Made to Barber Shop Employee?
Posted on January 08, 2008Have you ever been approached in a Barber Shop by someone offering to sell you some beef-on-the cheap? It happened in North Dallas, according to a Texas health department division manager.Dallas Business Journal is reporting that the health department has fanned out across North Dallas to speak with businesses and inspect restaurants in the aftermath of the still missing 14,800 pounds of e coli-contaminated beef that was stolen from a Texas American Food Service truck...
Michigan Firm, Mark's Quality Meats, Inc., Recalls Ground Beef Products Due to Possible E. coli O157:H7 Contamination
Posted on January 05, 2008Mark's Quality Meats, Inc., a Detroit, Michigan firm, is voluntarily recalling approximately 13,150 pounds of various cuts of steaks and ground beef products because they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The steak and ground beef products subject to recall were produced on Dec...
Food Safety Infosheet Focus: E. coli O157:H7
Posted on January 03, 2008This week's Food Safety Infosheet from the International Food Safety Network (iFSN) out of Kansas State University and the University of Guelph addresses concerns about E. coli O157:H7 - a potentially deadly foodborne pathogen. From the infosheet: E...
E. coli victim out of coma, recovering
Posted on January 02, 200820-year-old Stephanie Smith awoke from nine weeks in a medically-induced coma shortly before Christmas. Smith became ill with an E. coli infection in September after eating a contaminated hamburger, and has since been hospitalized with hemolytic uremic syndrome...
2007 E. coli recalls total more than 33.3 million pounds
Posted on December 24, 2007The year 2007 is going to be remembered for the big beef recalls due to E. coli returning with a vengeance. All totaled meat producers were forced to recall over 33.3 million pounds of beef products. Topping the list was the 21.7 million pound recall due to E...
FSIS ALERT: Public Health Alert for Ground Beef Products Due To Salmonella Contamination in Safeway supermarkets in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada and New Mexico - 38 sickened.
Posted on December 23, 2007The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert due to illnesses from Salmonella Newport associated with fresh ground beef products contaminated with multi-drug resistant Salmonella that may have been ground and sold at Safeway supermarkets in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada and New Mexico between Sept...
Another E. coli Recall
Posted on December 18, 2007The USDA announced yesterday that Snapps Ferry Packing is recalling hamburger patties and bulk ground beef that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. No illnesses have been reported - the problem was discovered through routine testing. According to USDA: The products subject to recall are: * 4-pound packages of "GROUND BEEF PATTIES...
Lawyers negotiate spinach E. coli cases
Posted on December 13, 2007Lawyers for parties involved in claims that arose from the 2006 E. coli outbreak traced to contaminated spinach from California's Salinas Valley are meeting this week in the hopes of resolving claims brought by several Marler Clark clients. Dawn Withers, a reporter with the Salinas Californian, interviewed attorney Bill Marler about the cases he is negotiating this week in a story that appeared in today's paper...
Leafy Green Safety Generates Discussion
Posted on December 12, 2007The safety of our leafy green food supply - mainly lettuce and spinach - has received significant attention since the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service published a request for comments regarding proposed national leafy greens handling regulations in October...
The effects of a cow's diet on E. coli levels
Posted on December 10, 2007Researchers from Kansas State University have concluded that feedlots containing cattle that are fed distiller's grain, a byproduct of ethanol production, have an increased incidence of E. coli O157:H7 - a toxic form of E. coli that causes human illness...
Kansas 5-year-old released from hospital
Posted on December 03, 2007A five-year-old from Hutchinson, Kansas, was released from Wesley Medical Center after being hospitalized for a month with hemolytic uremic syndrome. Aubrey Anderson's kidneys failed after she became ill with an E. coli infection in October. According to the Hutchinson News, Aubrey was released from the hospital to recover at home because her mother is a registered nurse...
Kentucky Woman Dies from E. coli Infection
Posted on December 03, 2007The Times-Tribune reported over the weekend that Vickie Shelton, a Knox County resident, passed away on Monday, November 26th at Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington after being admitted. According to the story, Ms. Shelton had eaten ground beef before becoming ill, and public health officials are conducting tests to determine whether that ground beef was contaminated with E...
USDA regulation for leafy green industries?
Posted on November 29, 2007Jane Liaw from the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported today on USDA's proposal to ask the public about whether the leafy green industry should be further regulated. More regulation would be USDA's response to several E. coli outbreaks that have been the result of consumption of contaminated produce...
Spinach E. coli lawsuit settled
Posted on November 28, 2007The Associated Press broke the story yesterday that a Wisconsin family's E. coli lawsuit - one stemming from the 2006 spinach E. coli outbreak - had been resolved without going to trial. Dinesh Ramde, AP business writer, wrote: The agreement was reached in October but not filed in federal court until last week...
E. coli victim still hospitalized
Posted on November 27, 2007Sharon Smith, the mother of Stephanie Smith, a Minnesota resident who has been hospitalized for months after eating a hamburger and becoming ill with E. coli poisoning, spoke with Kirsti Marohn of the St. Cloud Times for an article that appeared in today's paper...
AFG recalls E. coli-contaminated meat after outbreak in Illinois
Posted on November 26, 2007Saturday, American Foods Group (AFG) of Green Bay, Wisconsin, recalled over 95,000 pounds of ground beef products for E. coli contamination after the Illinois Department of Health confirmed consumers in that state had become ill with E. coli infections after eating AFG ground beef products...
Indiana, Utah residents fight E. coli infections
Posted on November 21, 2007In September, an E. coli outbreak among students at Galena Elementary School perplexed health officials. Several children became ill with E. coli and a source of the outbreak was elusive. The sibling of two students at Galena Elementary battled an E...
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