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Covers news, issues and developments in food safety law.
By Pritzker, Ruohonen & Associates

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Last Entry: November 15, 2009 at 09:12:07

E. coli Prompts Recall of Alex & George Hamburger

Posted on May 05, 2009
E. coli O157:H7 found in a test sample of ground beef produced by a New York state wholesaler has prompted a recall of 4,663 pounds of the meat. The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), which discovered the contamination in routine testing, announced the recall late Monday...

Pritzker Olsen Representing Victim of Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Spices

Posted on May 05, 2009
National food safety law firm PritzkerOlsen is representing Shirley Jane Schultz, one of the victims of a multistate Salmonella outbreak that has been linked to contaminated Union International Food Company spices, according to news reports. Ms. Schultz, a 77-year-old from Nevada, was severely sickened and spent over a week in the hospital...

Spice Salmonella Victim Hires PritzkerOlsen

Posted on May 04, 2009
A 77-year-old woman from Dayton, Nevada, who spent more than a week in the hospital with a Salmonella infection has chosen national food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen to represent her. Shirley Jane Schultz was diagnosed April 9, less than two weeks after California-based Union International Food Co...

Spice Salmonella Victim Hires Pritzker Olsen

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Recall of Alfalfa Seeds Associated with Salmonella Saintpaul

Posted on May 02, 2009
Alfalfa seeds from Italy have been associate with a multistate Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak. After preliminary epidemiology regarding the ongoing outbreak of illness from Salmonella Saintpaul in people who had eaten alfalfa sprouts was shared with the supplier of the seeds, the supplier made the decision to voluntarily withdraw certain alfalfa seeds from the market...

New Hampshire Camp Reopens After Salmonella

Posted on May 02, 2009
An environmental camp for school children operated in Madison, New Hampshire, has reopened after a Salmonella outbreak sickened dozens of middle school classmates. National food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen is representing victims of the outbreak, which the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services has traced to a kitchen mixer...

Peanut Butter Crackers Still Causing Salmonella

Posted on May 01, 2009
Peanut butter crackers containing Salmonella are still making people sick and the outbreak caused by Peanut Corp. of America (PCA) is expected to continue for the next several months. That's what the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is saying this week in its latest written update on the Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak that has sickened 714 people in 46 states...

Outbreak of E. coli at Day Camp Petting Zoo

Posted on May 01, 2009
This week's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), a CDC publication, has an article about an E. coli outbreak associated with a day camp petting zoo: On June 7, 2007, the Pinellas County Health Department in central Florida was notified by a private physician regarding a positive laboratory result for Shiga toxin--producing Escherichia coli O157 (STEC O157) infection in a child aged 9 years...

FDA Seizes Salmonella Peanuts From Westco

Posted on April 30, 2009
U.S. Marshals have seized $34,500 worth of Peanut Corp. of America (PCA) peanuts and products containing the peanuts from Westco Fruit and Nut Co. Inc., a private firm that refused to voluntarily recall food suspected of containing a strain of Salmonella blamed for nine deaths...

Salmonella at Camp May Have Come From Mixer

Posted on April 30, 2009
An electric mixer used to make scrambled eggs and chocolate pudding may have caused a Salmonella outbreak at a student camp in New Hampshire earlier this month. WMUR-TV in Manchester, New Hampshire, has reported that the state Department of Health and Human Services determined that pudding at Stone Environmental Camp was contaminated with Salmonella...

CDC: Listeria Outbreak Linked to Alfalfa Sprouts

Posted on April 29, 2009
At the same time federal health officials investigate a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella Saintpaul caused by alfalfa sprouts, they also are probing a sprouts-related outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes . The Salmonella outbreak, with 31 confirmed illnesses in 6 states, has garned most of the publicity...

FDA and CDC Confirm Salmonella in Sprouts

Posted on April 27, 2009
An outbreak of 31 cases of Salmonella Saintpaul has prompted the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to issue a general advisory for consumers not to eat alfalfa sprouts. National food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen represents victims of the outbreak and is accepting additional cases from all affected states To reach a Salmonella lawyer at the firm, call 1-888-377-8900 (toll free), or complete a free case consultation form...

Alfalfa Sprouts Linked to Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on April 27, 2009
Pritzker Olsen law firm is representing people sickened in a mutistate Salmonella outbreak linked to raw alfalfa sprouts. This outbreak continues to widen, and the FDA and CDC are recommending that consumers not eat raw alfalfa sprouts, including sprout blends containing alfalfa sprouts, which have been linked to widespread Salmonella serotype Saintpaul contamination...

Alfalfa Sprouts Cause Salmonella Outbreak Again

Posted on April 26, 2009
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to announce soon a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella associated with alfalfa sprouts and the announcement may be coupled with an advisory for consumers to avoid eating sprouts. National food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen attorneys already represents victims in this outbreak and is accepting additional cases from all the states involved...

CJ United Spices, Onions Tied to Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on April 25, 2009
National food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen attorneys is representing one of the victims of a western states Salmonella outbreak caused by contaminated spices. In total, at least 60 people have been sickened in four states, including 45 people in California, where the adulterated spices were produced...

Sprouts in Southeast Michigan Causing Salmonella

Posted on April 24, 2009
Michigan health officials are seeing a growing number of Salmonella cases that investigators believe are associated with contaminated alfalfa sprouts used in sandwiches. According to multiple media reports, the Michigan Department of Community Health is still looking for the origin of the sprouts...

Paramedics Attend To Restaurant Patrons in Raleigh

Posted on April 23, 2009
Paramedics were called to a restaurant Friday night in Raleigh, North Carolina, to attend to at least nine cases of possible foodborne illness. Independent Weekly quoted a Wake County health official saying that an outbreak of illness was under investigation, but the official wouldn't even say if the patients ate at the same restaurant...

Salmonella Hits Students at Overnight Camp

Posted on April 23, 2009
Nearly 70 middle school students in the Salem, New Hampshire, public school district called in sick this week as part of the fallout from a Salmonella outbreak. The outbreak occurred at an overnight camp late last week near North Conway, New Hampshire...

Pistachio Salmonella Investigation Trudges On

Posted on April 19, 2009
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to investigate what links there are between Salmonella found in contaminated pistachios and the same strain of Salmonella found in ill people whose cases are part of the CDC's collective food poisoning database known as PulseNet...

Salmonella Spice Outbreak -- Recall Expanded

Posted on April 17, 2009
The California food wholesaler whose spices have been linked to a multi-state Salmonella outbreak in the West has expanded its consumer product recall to include all Uncle Chen and Lian How sauces, oils and oil blends. Union International Food Co. of Union City also said its recall now covers all types of dry spice products in 15-pound and smaller containers and 30-pound boxes and smaller packages of crushed chili...

"Gross Contamination" of Cheese Found in Illinois

Posted on April 17, 2009
The Illinois Department of Public Health has confirmed three cases of Campylobacter jejuni and suspects at least four more resulted from consumption of home-made white cheese sold out of cars and trucks in parking lots at churches and markets in the Rockford area...

Salmonella Victims Have Cruise Ship in Common

Posted on April 16, 2009
National food safety law firm PritzkerOlsen, P.A., has been retained by a 55-year-old man who nearly died as a result of an infection caused by a rare form of Salmonella that may be associated with a cruise ship on which he vacationed. In addition to the Minnesota man there have been reports of other passengers on the same vessel who were sickened with the same rare strain of Salmonella Oranienburg...

Study: Many Consumers Ignoring Food Product Recalls

Posted on April 15, 2009
Most consumers pay attention to food recalls, but only about 60 percent take action by looking for recalled food in their homes, a Rutgers Food Policy Institute study has found. A news release about the study said 40 percent of consumers who pay a great deal of attention to food recalls also think that the foods they purchase are less likely to be recalled than those purchased by others...

A Modest Proposal: Enough Insurance for Victims

Posted on April 12, 2009
By FRED PRITZKER Late last summer there was a devastating outbreak of E. coli O111 traced back to the Country Cottage restaurant in Locust Grove, Oklahoma. 341 people were sickened and one person died. While the source of the outbreak – the restaurant – was quickly identified, the disease-causing organism was not isolated on the restaurant premises or in the food and water served there...

Apple Valley Chipotle Restaurant Linked to Outbreak

Posted on April 10, 2009
Health officials have verified that the high-volume restaurant in Apple Valley, Minnesota, linked to an outbreak of Campylobacter in mid-February was a Chipotle Mexican Grill. The outbreak was first announced by the Minnesota Department of Health in early March, with no restaurant identified...

Salmonella Peanut Plant Fined $14.6 million

Posted on April 10, 2009
The State of Texas has leveled a $14.6 million fine against the peanut processing plant in Plainview owned by Peanut Corp. of America -- the company blamed for a national Salmonella outbreak associated with nine deaths and 700 illnesses. Virginia-based Peanut Corp...

Campylobacter Outbreak Closes Raw Milk Dairy

Posted on April 10, 2009
A raw milk dairy in western Colorado has been ordered by state regulators to stop distribution until further notice -- an action prompted by 11 cases of Campylobacter. The shutdown of Kinikin Corner Dairy LLC of Montrose, Colorado, was ordered by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment...

Girl Scouts Caught Up in Salmonella Pistachio Recall

Posted on April 10, 2009
It's been hard to keep up with all the food product recalls related to Salmonella-tainted pistachios grown and roasted in California. The sweeping domino affect of one large distributor (Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella Inc.) selling more than 1 million pounds of adulterated pistachios to re-baggers and other food companies has now tumbled onto Girl Scouts of the USA...

Oklahoma Poured 6,500 Hours Into E. coli Probe

Posted on April 10, 2009
The Oklahoma State Department of Public Health issued a report this week that provides an excellent example of the impact that food poisoning has on our society -- beyond the ultimate price of human health and life. For starters, the most important thing to remember about the E...

Food Safety System Needs Improvement

Posted on April 10, 2009
by Fred Pritzker The CDC recently issued its report entitled 'Preliminary FoodNet Data on the Incidence of Infection with Pathogens Transmitted Commonly Through Food --- 10 States, 2008.' (MMWR April 10, 2009 / 58(13);333-337) This innocuous sounding document is statistical confirmation of what food safety lawyers already know: our food safety system needs improvement...

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