Health Law

Food Poisoning and E coli are Popular Google Searches
The most popular Google searches are not "food poisoning" and "e coli," according to Google's Zeitgeist.  This is good.  But according to the Google Adwords keyword tool, "food poisoning" was searched on Google 165,000 times and "e coli" was searched 246,000 times in August...

Food Poisoning and Food Contamination-Tomatoes
Federal health officials are trying to prevent injury from food poisoning and food contamination by finding the source of salmonella-tainted tomatoes. While they continue to search, the federal workers believe that they are getting very close to identifying the outbreak's...

More Than 30 Sick After Illinois School Event
More than 30 people were sickened by Clostridium perfringens after eating food at a parent/teacher conference event Feb. 16 at Haven Middle School in Evanston, Illinois.The implicated food had been catered by Merle's BBQ, an Evanston restaurant...

Preventing Foodborne Illness this Barbeque Season
Madison, WI: Who doesn't love a barbeque? It's one of America's favorite summer pastimes, but all too often we hear reports of people getting sick from eating contaminated food. Last month, President Barack Obama pledged to revamp protection of the nation's food supply to help prevent future disease outbreaks: Numerous outbreaks of foodborne illness have exposed "haphazard oversight of the nation's far-flung food supply chain"...

Blawg of the Day - Food Poisoning Law Blog
I'm glad to see that Bill Marler's series of food-borne illness blogs has finally got some competition. The Food Poisoning Law Blog is brought to you by Fred Pritzker and Pritzker Olson, which is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota...

Is Foodborne Illness Increasing
Washington, DC: According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), rates of foodborne illnesses have been holding steady for five years and have even been declining from the mid-1990s until the beginning of this decade, due mainly to improvements in the meat and poultry industry...

Pet Food Recall and Deaths
Dogs and Cats Sickened by Tainted Menu Food Products

Mattel and Fisher-Price Toy Recall
Magnets and Lead Paint manufactured in China Create Poisoning and Health Hazard

Food/Supplements
involving food poisoning, food product recalls, false advertising or labeling, vitamin, weight loss and diet supplement issues.

Peanut Salmonella
alleging salmonella food poisoning from peanuts.

Foodborne Illness
alleging poisoning from food causing illness.

Tomato Salmonella
Sheetz Convenience Stores agrees to confidential out-of-court settlement with food poisoning victim.

Hotel Food Poisoning
Thomson Holiday and JMC-Thomas Cook awards British travelers a £2.5 million personal injury settlement.

Pet Food Recall
Diamond Pet Food sets up $3.1 million class action fund for substandard dog food.