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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 Rate Rises Again in Ground Beef Sample Tests

Posted on December 27, 2008
For the third year in a row, the prevalence of E. coli O157:H7 in raw ground beef has increased in sample tests conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). A review of the latest 2008 FSIS data by Pritzker | Ruohonen & Associates, one of the few law firms in the United States that practices extensively in the area of foodborne illness litigation, indicates that ...

St. Louis Meat Company Recalls Sausage

Posted on December 26, 2008
Routine testing found Listeria monocytogenes at a St. Louis sausage shop, prompting a recall on Christmas Day of 750 pounds of product sold over the shop's retail counter in unmarked butcher paper. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service detected the bacteria and announced the recall of 750 pounds of various sizes of Krakow sausage from T...

Health Officials Rule Out Water in E. coli Case

Posted on December 23, 2008
Health officials in Solano County, California, have ruled out the municipal water supply in the town of Dixon as the potential source of an E. coli infection that killed a 15-year-old boy who lived there. In early December, part of Dixon was put under a boil water advisory after a utility pipe broke and E...

Food Safety Tips to Keep the "Happy" in Holidays

Posted on December 21, 2008
Nothing kills the after-glow of a holiday gathering worse than a case of food poisoning that you picked up from your aunt's under-cooked turkey or your brother-in-law's homemade egg nog. So, to help keep everyone festive throughout the holidays, the food safety experts at Pritzker | Ruohonen & Associates offer the following guidelines to keep your kitchens merry...

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California Child Dies of E. coli Infection

Posted on December 20, 2008
Public health officials in Solano County, California, are investigating what caused an E. coli infection that killed a young child from Dixon, a town that was under a boil water advisory in early December. The officials aren't releasing any identifying information about the child for privacy reasons...

Ohio Firm Recalls Sausage in Response to Listeria

Posted on December 19, 2008
One-pound packages of Sopressata mild sausage may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes and are being recalled by DeNiro Cheese of Youngstown, Ohio, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said late Friday...

Melamine Discovery Prompts Recall of Biscuits

Posted on December 18, 2008
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) found melamine in test samples of biscuits sold by a company from Vietnam, a discovery that has prompted a recall of four varieties of Wonderfarm brand biscuits. Tests conducted by the MDA laboratory found several of the cookies had melamine levels that exceeded the U...

Listeria Prompts Company To Suspend Production

Posted on December 14, 2008
A Framingham, Mass., food company has suspended manufacturing of its imitation cream cheese and imitation peanut butter as it investigates what caused Listeria monocytogenes to contaminate a test sample. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in news release that Cambrooke Foods LLC also is recalling all batches of the imitation cream cheese and "Peanot Butter'' from distributors' shelves and consumers' kitchens...

U.S. To Start Random Melamine Tests On Some Food

Posted on December 12, 2008
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said this week it will begin testing sample batches of meat and poultry products to check for melamine, a chemical contaminant in food that has sickened more than 50,000 Chinese children this year...

Study Finds Gaps in Food Safety

Posted on December 09, 2008
Twenty states and Washington, D.C., did not meet or exceed the national average for identifying the pathogens responsible for foodborne disease outbreaks, according to a newly released study of America's preparedness for health emergencies. The sixth annual Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health from Diseases, Disasters and Bioterrorism report said the national average for states finding the causitive agent in food poisoning outbreaks is 44 percent of the time...

FDA Food Protection Plan Doesn't Satisfy DeLauro

Posted on December 05, 2008
The U.S. congresswoman who chairs the House Agriculture-FDA Appropriations Subcommittee remains convinced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should be stripped of its food safety responsibility. U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., who also sits on the influential House Appropriations and Budget Committee, repeated her criticism of the FDA this week, just days after the agency said it was making progress under the Food Protection Plan it launched in 2007 to improve its effectiveness...

Rare Bacterial Infection Strikes 2 Infants in New Mexico

Posted on December 03, 2008
State and national health officials are investigating how two babies in New Mexico became infected by Enterobacter sakazakii, a bacteria that has been associated in the past with powdered infant formula. One of the kids, a 7-month-old boy from Holloman Air Force Base in Otero County, died Nov...

Nebraska Hospital Sued Over E coli Misdiagnosis

Posted on December 02, 2008
Doctors in Nebraska misdiagnosed an elderly woman who was afflicted by E. coli O157:H7 and have refused to change the cause of death on her death certificate, according to a lawsuit filed by family members. Nebraska state epidemiologist Dr...

FDA Heralds Progress in Food Safety

Posted on December 01, 2008
The government agency in charge of safekeeping more than 50 percent of America's food supply issued a statement Monday touting progress on several fronts. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is no stranger to criticism about its inspection of food plants and its prevention of foodborne illnesses...

Listeria Test Prompts Sandwich Recall

Posted on November 29, 2008
A Massachusetts company has recalled 5,250 pounds of "Blimpie" ready-to-eat frozen beef sandwich portions because they may be contaminated with Llisteria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced late Friday...

Pot Pie Salmonella Case Raises Microwaving Concerns

Posted on November 27, 2008
Companies and regulators should consider studying whether microwave cooking is safe for certain not-ready-to-eat frozen foods, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said this week in a report on the 2007 national Salmonella outbreak associated with Banquet pot pies...

E. coli Threat Prompts Burger Recall in New Jersey

Posted on November 25, 2008
A government sampling procedure at a food company in New Jersey indicated that certain ground beef products may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, a finding that has prompted the firm to recall 345 pounds of the meat. The announcement Tuesday by the U...

Promising Shigella Vaccine Licensed to Non-Profit

Posted on November 24, 2008
A promising Shigella vaccine developed at the University of Maryland in Baltimore could make its way into developing nations to treat sick children now that it has been licensed to a non-profit group funded in part by Bill and Melinda Gates. The deal was announced in a press release Monday by the university's School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development...

Feds Sue Raw Milk Producer To Stop Shipments

Posted on November 22, 2008
The federal government is suing a California organic dairy producer, alleging that the company labeled shipments of unpasteurized milk as "pet food'' even though the product was intended for human consumption. The U.S. Justice Department, in conjunction with the Food and Drug Administration, filed the lawsuit earlier this week in an effort to ban Organic Pastures Dairy Co...

Mutant Version of E. Coli Found in British Herd

Posted on November 19, 2008
A new version of E. coli 026 that is resistant to families of antibiotics, including penicillins, has been found on a British dairy farm for the first time. The emergence of the so-called superbug, announced this week in minutes of a meeting of the Veterinary Medicines Directorate, is thought by some to be related to heavy use of antibiotics on farms...

Study: Regulatory Response to Outbreak Was Broken

Posted on November 17, 2008
Federal agencies provided a slow and disjointed response to the multi-state Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak of 2008, a combination of shortcomings that left Americans vulnerable to the sickness for too long and unduly hurt fortunes in the tomato industry, according to an academic report released Monday From its inception in late May to its official end on Aug...

Iowa College Still Passionate About Irradiation

Posted on November 16, 2008
Fifteen years have passed since Iowa State University first launched its Linear Accelerator Facility, but animal science professors at the school are still passionate about their study of irradiation of meat and other food. The use of irradiation destroys most microorganisms and decreases the chance of potentially deadly E...

PETA Wants Meat-Eaters to Pay More For Insurance

Posted on November 15, 2008
The largest current outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infection in North America appears to be centered in southeastern Ontario, where health officials suspect that the disease is spreading via romaine lettuce. Given that possibility and the fact that other widespread foodborne illness cases in the past two years have been linked to veggies, officials at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) may have a hole in their argument when it comes to urging the health insurance industry to raise rates for meat-eaters...

Food Plant Closes 16 Months After Botulism Outbreak

Posted on November 14, 2008
The Castleberry's canning plant that spawned a rare foodborne botulism outbreak last year was permanently closed by its owner Friday after 82 years of operation in Augusta, Georgia. Television stations in the area reported that all 327 employees of the plant will lose their jobs...

Maine School Fighting Hepatitis A

Posted on November 13, 2008
School officials and health workers in Kennebunkport, Maine, continue to fight an outbreak of Hepatitis A that began in September. The most recent case was confirmed last week in a fourth student at Conoslidated School. The confirmation came just one day after most of the student body and staff received vaccine delivered by the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...

Two E. coli Cases Confirmed in Tennessee

Posted on November 12, 2008
Health officials in Tennessee have launched an intensive food poisoning investigation, interviewing more than 180 sick people and confirming two cases of E. coli O157:H7. The Elk Valley Times newspaper in Fayetteville, Tenn., reported Wednesday that state laboratory tests confirmed two E...

Link Suspected Between E. coli Cases in U.S., Canada

Posted on November 10, 2008
Southern California is 2,100 miles away from southeastern Ontario, but health officials have found a genetic match between 21 confirmed cases of E. coli O157:H7 in Canada and five E. coli cases in Southern California, South Dakota and New Jersey. The Canadian cases are located in a tight geographical cluster between Halton, Niagara and Waterloo, Ontario...

E. coli Fears Prompt Youth Football Cancellations

Posted on November 10, 2008
The presence of elk droppings on the football field at Evergreen High School in Jefferson County, Colo., prompted local health officials over the weekend to cancel youth-league games. The concern stemmed from recent findings that eight confirmed E...

Listeria in Hot Dogs Prompts Recall

Posted on November 08, 2008
More than 28,000 pounds of hot dogs made in Alabama are being recalled by the manufacturer after regulatory testing found the meat products could be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The recall was announced Saturday, Nov. 8, by the USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) after the problem was discovered by the Georgia State Department of Agriculture...

Two Children With HUS Survive, Leave Iowa Hospital

Posted on November 06, 2008
A 5-year-old boy from Illinois and a 7-year-old girl from Iowa have been released from University of Iowa Children's Hospital after battling severe complications from E. coli O157:H7 infections over the course of a month.. Health officials say the two cases are among a recent cluster of six confirmed E...

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