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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

Salmonella in Sprouts: The Problem Persists

Posted on April 08, 2009
The multi-state outbreak of Salmonella Saintpaul that led to a recall of alfalfa sprouts by Nebraska's CW Sprouts Inc. is another reminder to consumers that people in high-risk categories for systemic infections should not eat raw sprouts...

FDA Finds Salmonella At Setton Pistachio Facilities

Posted on April 07, 2009
State and federal food safety inspectors found Salmonella organisms in "critical areas'' of productions facilities at Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella Inc., the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced. The inspectors also found the potential of cross-contamination of raw and roasted products, the FDA said in a press release...

12,000 Pounds of Salmonella Egg Rolls Recalled

Posted on April 04, 2009
A Haywood, California, company is recalling 12,460 pounds of frozen chicken egg rolls because they contain black pepper associated with a Salmonella outbreak in western states that has sickened at least 42 people. The egg rolls were made by EDS Wrap and Roll Foods LLC...

Salmonella Sprouts Lawsuit; Outbreak Grows

Posted on April 03, 2009
The multi-state Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak linked to alfalfa sprouts has grown to more than 120 confirmed cases and national food safety law firm PritzkerOlsen, P.A., is continuing to hear from victims of the outbreak. The firm, which is involved in virtually every major outbreak of foodborne illness, is representing victims in claims against CW Sprouts Inc...

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Setton Expands Salmonella Pistachio Recall

Posted on April 03, 2009
An affiliate of the California company at the center of a nationwide Salmonella recall of pistachio products issued a supplemental recall today covering 19 different pistachio products, including chocolate covered varieties. At this stage of the investigation, national food safety law firm PritzkerOlsen, P...

Dining Hall Closed After MSU Students Get Sick

Posted on April 01, 2009
One of the first indicators last year to the development of a regional outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7 was a rash of student illnesses at Michigan State University. Eventually, health investigators traced those cases and others to E. coli contamination of lettuce packaged by a Detroit supplier...

Salmonella Pistachio Product Recalls Growing

Posted on April 01, 2009
Fisher brand pistachios are among the latest products recalled as a result of Salmonella pistachio contamination found in bulk wholesale shipments from Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella Inc. in California. The number of entries in the searchable master list of pistachio product recalls has quickly grown to at least 65...

Salmonella Pistachio Product Recalls Growing

Posted on April 01, 2009
CONSUMER ALERT: FDA is advising consumers not to eat any brand of shelled or unshelled pistachios, or any food products containing pistachios, such as baked goods, trail mix, and other snack foods, until FDA determines which pistachios and pistachio products are affected by the recall being conducted by Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella, Inc...

White Pepper "Link'' to Salmonella Outbreak Cited

Posted on March 31, 2009
The Washoe County Health District in northern Nevada and health officials from Carson City, Nevada, say that investigators have linked "Uncle Chen" brand white pepper to a four-state outbreak of Salmonella. A broader association had been drawn to white and black pepper made by Union International Food Co...

FDA Issues Salmonella Pistachio Warning

Posted on March 31, 2009
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is recommending that consumers avoid eathing pistachios and pistachio products until the agency knows more about a potentially widespread case of Salmonella contamination. This is how the situation has developed...

More Nuts to You, American Consumer

Posted on March 31, 2009
By FRED PRITZKER There's another potential Salmonella outbreak associated with tons of nuts used in a wide variety of consumer products. Sound familiar? Near the end of a prior Salmonella outbreak (involving peanuts processed by Peanut Corporation of America that sickened hundreds and killed nine), a California-based company, Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella Inc...

Spices Linked to Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on March 30, 2009
At least 42 people, including 33 in California, have been sickened by the same strain of Salmonella -- an outbreak that health investigators have linked to white and black pepper spices sold by Union International Food Co. of California. The company has recalled its pepper spices and other seasonings, including cayenne pepper, paprika, chopped onion, onion powder, garlic, curry powder, mustard powder, and wasabi powder...

Upstream, Downstream; Everyone Must be Responsible

Posted on March 28, 2009
By FRED PRITZKER The whole point of a food recall is to prevent additional foodborne illness after producers and their adulterated products are identified. That's why it's so important for food companies, food distributors, food retailers and federal, state and local authorities to promptly and effectively remove from the marketplace any food known or reasonably certain to cause illness or death...

The Opaque World of American Food Safety

Posted on March 27, 2009
By FRED PRITZKER The buzzword de jour is 'transparency.' Transparency in financial markets, transparency in budgets, transparency in political contributions, transparency in just about everything except the one thing everyone pays for and no one can live without: food...

Pistachio Nut Salmonella Recall

Posted on March 27, 2009
CONSUMER ALERT: FDA is advising consumers not to eat any brand of shelled or unshelled pistachios, or any food products containing pistachios, such as baked goods, trail mix, and other snack foods, until FDA determines which pistachios and pistachio products are affected by the recall being conducted by Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella, Inc...

Former FDA Executive Says It's Time For A Change

Posted on March 26, 2009
A former deputy commissioner for policy at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is among those who support the idea of stripping food safety responsibility from the agency and creating a new Food Safety Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services...

Pistachio Nut Salmonella Recall

Posted on March 26, 2009
An Illinois based candy and nut company has recalled a variety of products containing pistachios that could be contaminated with Salmonella bacteria. Georgia Nut Company said in a letter to customers that it detected the problem while sampling and testing pistachio nuts from a third-party supplier from California...

Officials Investigate 5 E. coli Cases in Hartford

Posted on March 25, 2009
Connecticut health officials have informed officials at Aetna Insurance in downtown Hartford that five employees there have been infected with E. coli bacteria in the past three to four weeks. The Hartford Courant newspaper reported that the cause of the outbreak is still under investigation...

Jersey Company Refuses to Recall Peanut Products

Posted on March 23, 2009
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to eat peanuts and peanut-derived products from a New Jersey company after the firm took the unusual stance of refusing to issue a voluntary product recall. The firm at the center of the controversy is Westco Fruit and Nuts Inc...

Congressional Panel Pounds on King Nut Companies

Posted on March 19, 2009
Members of Congress are now leveling criticism at food companies that did business with Peanut Corporation of America without running their own checks on the safety of peanut products they were buying. The calls for wider food safety accountability in the 46-state Salmonella outbreak that has claimed nine lives and sickened more than 700 people came Thursday at a hearing in Washington, D...

Final Update on Peanut Butter Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on March 17, 2009
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has provided what it says is its last formal update on the Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak linked to Peanut Corporation of America. Since early September, 691 confirmed cases of the outbreak strain of Salmonella have been reported in 46 states...

Obama: Food Poisoning Is 'Unacceptable Hazard'

Posted on March 14, 2009
Saying that the rise of food poisoning in America has become an "unacceptable hazard to human health,'' President Barack Obama today announced changes designed to streamline and beef up food safety laws and inspection. The president devoted his weekly address to the issue and officially announced Dr...

Connecticut Considering Tougher Regulations on Retail Raw Milk

Posted on March 13, 2009
Last summer, an E. coli outbreak linked to raw milk produced at a Simsbury, Connecticut dairy sickened 7 people, two of them toddlers who developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a life-threatening illness that causes kidney failure. In response, the Connecticut General Assembly is considering legislation that puts a few more restrictions on the sale of raw milk: Raw milk would only be able to be 'sold or offered for sale, transferred, exchanged or bartered only on the premises where the retail raw milk was produced' (Sec...

Alfalfa Sprouts Salmonella Outbreak Widens

Posted on March 13, 2009
The alfalfa sprouts Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak has widened to at least 100 cases as public health officials in Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota and Kansas continue to study the source of the outbreak. In Nebraska alone there were 47 laboratory-confirmed illnesses and another 27 probable cases as of Friday...

Sprouts Salmonella Outbreak in Five State

Posted on March 12, 2009
State and federal health investigators continue working to establish a definite link between sprouts sold by a Nebraska company and a Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak in five states. An epidemiological investigation by the state of Nebraska associated initial illnesses in Nebraska and Iowa with sprouts sold by Omaha-based SunSprout Enterprises Inc...

E. coli Vaccine Given Conditional License

Posted on March 12, 2009
The United States Department of Agriculture has given its first approval to a vaccine to reduce E. coli O157:H7 in cattle. The product is made by Willmar, Minnesota,-based Epitopix LLC, a spin-off of Willmar Poultry Co. Other companies have been working on E...

Sprouts Salmonella Outbreak Now in Five States

FDA Gives Guidance to Industry on Salmonella

Posted on March 11, 2009
In response to the ongoing, peanut-derived Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak that has killed nine people and sickened 683 others, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has published food industry guidance for reducing the bacteria in products containing peanut butter and other peanut-derived ingredients...

Reports Say FDA Has A New Chief

Posted on March 11, 2009
Press reports indicate that President Obama has chosen Margaret Hamburg, the fomer New York City health commissioner, to head the troubled Food and Drug Administration (FDA). On the food side of the FDA, the nominee would inherit an agency that has been criticized repeatedly for failing to keep the food supply safe from deadly pathogens...

Senate Launches Food Safety Bill

Posted on March 04, 2009

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