Health Law

FDA seeks permanent injunction against Louisiana sprout company

Posted on March 17, 2010
Sprouts are a food item that have been associated with outbreaks of foodborne disease on multiple occasions in the past decade, including a major Salmonella saintpaul outbreak between February and April of 2009.  In the 2009 outbreak, the CDC counted 235 confirmed outbreak victims, and likely thousands more people across the country were sickened...

Over 40 claims currently pending in Subway shigella outbreak

Posted on March 17, 2010
At Marler Clark, we represent foodpoisoning victims from across the country.  Many of our foodpoisoning clients are people sickened with bacteria and viruses like E. coli, Salmonella, campylobacter, Hepatitis A, norovirus, and of course Shigella...

Confirmed Lombard Subway Shigella Illnesses Now At 78

Posted on March 17, 2010
Information on the DuPage County Health Department's investigation into the Shigella outbreak stemming from the still-closed Subway restaurant located in Lombard, Illinois was updated today.  The number of confirmed cases of Shigella now stands at 78, with 11 of those injured requiring hospitalization...

Canadian Cattle Producers Willing to Make Changes to Prevent E. coli O157 Contamination on their Farms

Posted on March 16, 2010
Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. (TSX: BNC), a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, today announced that a survey conducted among a random sample of 771 Canadian beef and dairy farmers in all regions of Canada showed that the majority are willing to implement changes on the farm to prevent contamination by E...

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Lian How brand sesame seed recall due to Salmonella

Posted on March 16, 2010
On March 13, Spice Industrial Group, Inc., of Industry, California, recalled white sesame seeds sold under the Lian How brand name and supplied by Specialty Commodities Corp.  The affected products were distributed from november 6 to December 11, 2009...

North Dakota Salmonella Outbreak Investigation Costs $38,000

Posted on March 15, 2010
The final tally is in for the North Dakota Department of Health's investigation into the Salmonella outbreak that poisoned over 180 people last summer.  According to an article published in today's Bismark Tribune, the total investigation costs are nearly $38,000...

Lombard Subway faces 31 cases in Shigella outbreak

Posted on March 15, 2010
The Subway restaurant located on Roosevelt Road in Lombard, Illinois is at the epicenter of a major shigella outbreak that began in late February and continued into early March.  Latest reports estimate the number of confirmed cases in the outbreak at around 50, but there are surely many, many more people who have been sickened in the outbreak...

Lombard Subway faces 34 cases in Shigella outbreak

Posted on March 15, 2010
The Subway restaurant located on Roosevelt Road in Lombard, Illinois is at the epicenter of a major shigella outbreak that began in late February and continued into early March.  Latest reports estimate the number of confirmed cases in the outbreak at around 50, but there are surely many, many more people who have been sickened in the outbreak...

Whole Foods in California, Washington, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut to Stop Raw Milk Sales

Posted on March 13, 2010
According to David Gumpert, blogger at the Complete Patient, and confirmed by raw milk dairyman, Mark McAfee, owner of Organic Pastures Dairy, Whole Foods will stop raw milk sales in California, Washington, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Mr. Gumpert quoted Mr...

Marler Clark Files Second Shigella Lawsuit Against Chicago Subway

Posted on March 13, 2010
A second lawsuit has been filed against Subway in connection with an outbreak of shigella from food served at the west suburban sandwich shop. Barbara Romero claims she had to be hospitalized after eating toasted chicken and onion teriyaki sandwiches from the Subway restaurant in Lombard...

Marler on food safety - U.S. should do more against food-borne illness

Posted on March 12, 2010
By Hope Belli Tinney, WSU Today PULLMAN - Americans don't tend to take a 'buyer beware' approach to food consumption, but perhaps they should. William D. 'Bill' Marler, an expert in food-borne illness and the law, spoke at WSU Pullman Wednesday to say that food-borne illness is far more prevalent than most people realize and the United States should be doing more to confront the problem...

Marler Clark Clients Speak to Senators about Foodborne Illness

Posted on March 12, 2010
Victims of foodborne illness gathered in the nation's capital last week to speak to Senators about the need to move food safety legislation forward. Senate bill 510 (S510, the Food Safety Modernization Act) passed unanimously out of committee in November, but has yet to come to the floor of the Senate for a vote...

Food Safety News IPhone App is up and running - download is free

Posted on March 11, 2010

Food Safety News Iphone Application Approved by Apple - Should be at App Store in 24 Hours

Posted on March 11, 2010
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Subway Shigella outbreak update: 21 confirmed cases

Posted on March 10, 2010
As lawsuits commence, the Dupage County Health Department continues to receive reports of illness linked to the Lombard, Illinois Subway restaurant that is at the epicenter of a major shigella outbreak.  Spokesperson David Hass recently stated that lab tests have confirmed 21 illnesses in the outbreak...

Stephen Colbert For FDA Spokesperson

Posted on March 10, 2010
What do you think, should the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hire Stephen Colbert to do all of its consumer alerts for recalled products?  Based on his informational (and comedic) handling of the latest product to be recalled in the ever-expanding Salmonella HVP outbreak, Pringles Cheeseburger and Taco Night flavored chips, Mr...

Black pepper recall grows

Posted on March 10, 2010
The FDA announced yesterday that yet another company is recalling black pepper products as a result of Salmonella contamination.  This recall is related to the Mincing Overseas Spice Company recall that occurred on the heels of a major salmonella outbreak linked to Salami products manufactured and sold by Daniele Inc...

Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein Containing Products Recall List Hits 101

Posted on March 09, 2010
FDA's Expanding Recall List Bouillon Products Herbox Dip and Dip Mix Products Concord Foods De la Casa Delicioso Follow Your Heart Fresh Food Concepts Great Value Johnny's Fine Foods McCormick Oak Lake Farms Reser's Rojo's T. Marzetti Dressing and Dressing Mix Products Follow Your Heart Reser's Trader Joe's Gravy Mix Products McCormick Pre-Packaged Meal Products Follow Your Heart Prepared Salad Products Reser's Snack and Snack Mix Products CVS Great Nut Supply HK Anderson Hawaiian National Pretzel Company President's Choice Rouses Louisiana's Best Safeway Spec's Wines & Fine Foods Sunflower Markets Soup Mix Products Castella Homemade Gourmet Stuffing Products McCormick

More on HVP: bad news for Basic Food Flavors

Posted on March 09, 2010
Today, yet another company had to recall products due to Salmonella-contaminated hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) manufactured by Basic Food Flavors, a Las Vegas, Nevada company.  Today's recall was by Ruiz Foods, Inc., a Denison, Texas establishment, who had to recall 115,700 pounds of a ready-to-eat beef product that contained HVP as an ingredient...

FDA Says Basic Food Flavors Sold HVP After Postitive Salmonella Tests

Posted on March 09, 2010
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Basic Food Flavors  "continued to make and distribute food ingredients for about a month after it learned the bacteria salmonella was present at its processing facility, according to a Food and Drug Administration report...

Shigella Subway outbreak: just a thought about your illness

Posted on March 08, 2010
The Dupage County Health Department announced on March 4, 2010 that it "is investigating the cause of a cluster of gastrointestinal illnesses primarily among customers of a Subway restaurant located at 1009 E. Roosevelt Road in Lombard. Restaurant ownership and corporate representatives have been cooperating with health officials, and the Lombard restaurant has been closed pending further results of the investigation...

94 Products on FDA List - Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein Recall Due to Salmonella Risk

Posted on March 07, 2010
The FDA has updated its expanding recall list of various products containing Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein. The list now includes: Bouillon Products - Herbox Dip and Dip Mix Products - Concord Foods, De la Casa, Delicioso, Follow Your Heart, Fresh Food, Concepts, Great Value, Johnny's Fine Foods, McCormick, Oak Lake Farms, Reser's, Rojo's, T...

Lesson Learned From Poisoning At Least 180 People Last Year?

Posted on March 07, 2010
It was reported by the Bismark Tribune this weekend that the North Dakota Department of Health will not file charges against Aggie Jennings, an unlicensed caterer whose food was linked to more than 180 Salmonella Montevideo infections. The illnesses occurred over the course of three separate events that Ms...

Subway hit with another foodborne illness outbreak - this time bacteria, not viral

Posted on March 07, 2010
The DuPage County Illinois Health Department has reported that four more cases of shigellosis were confirmed Friday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases caused by the outbreak at the Subway restaurant in Lombard to 12. Of those 12 cases, seven have required hospitalization...

Restaurant Shigella Poisoning Nothing New - 200 Ill, One Dead in 2000

Posted on March 07, 2010
Illnesses continue to be reported in the Shigella outbreak tied to the Subway restaurant in Lombard, Illinois.   Restaurant based Shigella outbreaks, though, are nothing new.  Sometimes, the results can be tragic.  In the fall of 2000, Shigella sickened hundreds, and left one person dead, in an outbreak at a Mexican restaurant in Northern California...

Shigella outbreak at Subway: sanitation requirements for Illinois restaurants

Posted on March 07, 2010
When an outbreak happens at a restaurant, as opposed to an outbreak from a food item sold in grocery stores, the cause is frequently that one of the restaurant's employees was ill and contaminated food.  Often, other employees in the restaurant become sick as well, which can cause the problem of illness amongst customers to increase exponentially...

Shigella: an all-too-frequent cause of foodpoisoning

Posted on March 07, 2010
Shigella is indeed a very frequent cause of foodborne illness.  It is estimated, in fact, that more than 17,000 people become infected by Shigella every year in the USA.  The routes of transmission are typically food and person-to-person contact, which is why Shigella is a frequent cause of outbreaks at daycare centers...

Chicagoland no stranger to foodpoisoning outbreaks

Posted on March 06, 2010
Foodpoisoning is a major national health concern, with associated costs topping $152 billion annually.  Currently, several major national outbreaks and recalls are occuring, resulting in likely many hundreds, if not thousands of cases of foodborne illness...

What is Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein, or HVP and What Products Might Contain Salmonella Tennessee?

Posted on March 06, 2010
Hydrolyzed vegetable protein, or HVP, is produced by boiling cereals or legumes, such as soy, corn, or wheat, in hydrochloric acid and then neutralizing the solution with sodium hydroxide. The acid hydrolyzes, or breaks down, the protein in vegetables into their component amino acids...

HPV Update: FDA finds Salmonella in Basic Food Flavors' Processing Equipment

Posted on March 05, 2010
More companies added products to the growing list of recalled food products containing Salmonella contaminated hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP).  HVP is a flavor enhancer used in a wide variety of processed food products, such as soups, sauces, chilis, stews, hot dogs, gravies, seasoned snack foods, dips, and dressings...

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