Personal Injury Law

Salmonella I4,12:i:- in Milford Valley Farms Chicken Cordon Bleu lead to illnesses in Minnesota - Team Diarrhea Solves the Mystery - Again

Posted on October 03, 2008
Fourteen cases of salmonellosis reported in Minnesota since July have been linked to raw frozen chicken entrees, the Minnesota Department of Health said today.   The products include breaded and pre-browned Chicken Kiev and Chicken Cordon Bleu made by Milford Valley Farms...

The Haphazard Gourmet Girl is the New FDA

Posted on October 02, 2008
Melamine-tainted milk powder has contaminated products world-wide, from infant formula, cookies, tea, and candies.  The contamination has been blamed for the deaths of four children and kidney ailments among 54,000 others.  More than 13,000 children have been hospitalized, over 1,400 with kidney failure...

Export Marler to China and Export E. coli Lettuce to Canada

Posted on October 02, 2008
Although still not quite in the right time zone, I was able to get a few lawsuits filed in the US, but still thinking how I might help the US Balance of Trade Deficit with China, by exporting a few lawsuits as well.  It seems, however, that US Industry has beat me to Canada...

University of Colorado Sorority Hit with E. coli Bug

Posted on October 02, 2008
Public Health Officials Investigating wave of E. coli cases Boulder County Public Health (BCPH) is currently investigating a cluster of E. coli O157:H7 infections associated with students attending the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU). Since September 23rd, BCPH has investigated eight related cases...

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Governor Schwarzenegger Veto's SB 201 - The Raw Milk Bill is Dead

Posted on October 01, 2008
On August 21, 2008 I urged Governor Schwarzenegger to Veto SB 201. I learned a few moments ago that the Governor did just that.  Makes a life long Democrat think about switching to the other team.  Hopefully, the Senators will reconsider the bill and review some of the ideas I had outlined in a letter to them that I posted here on August 27, 2008...

Chinese Parents File Melamine Milk Lawsuit - Other Lawyers Urged to Quit Helping Victims

Posted on October 01, 2008
The Wall Street Journal reported a few moments ago that the parents of a 1-year-old boy sickened by tainted milk powder filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer, Sanlu, in what appears to be the first challenge to official efforts to keep the scandal out of China's courts...

Boy Scout sues S&S Foods - E. coli Supplier

Posted on October 01, 2008
Local Virginia News reported that a family of a 10-year-old Boy Scout who got sick after eating hamburger tainted with E. coli bacteria is suing the company that supplied the meat.  The lawsuit filed by Jansen Saunders and his parents against S&S Foods alleges 84 people were sickened by tainted meat at the Boy Scout camp near Goshen, and the company should assist affected families...

It Is Not Just Chinese Companies That Kill Its Citizen Customers - Canada's Maple Leaf Has Now Killed 20 With Listeria

Posted on October 01, 2008
The number of deaths from a listeriosis outbreak that has been linked to a Maple Leaf Foods plant in Toronto has reached 20.  The Public Health Agency of Canada says the latest death occurred in Ontario, where 15 of the deaths have been reported...

Pros and Cons of Commercial Irradiation of Fresh Iceberg Lettuce and Fresh Spinach: A Literature Review

Posted on October 01, 2008
This is the first part of a multi-part series on the Pros and Cons of Commercial Irradiation of Fresh Iceberg Lettuce and Fresh Spinach.  Given the recent outbreaks, hopefully this is timely. On August 22, 2008, FDA published a final rule for the safe use of ionizing radiation (also termed irradiation, irradiation pasteurization, cold pasteurization) of fresh iceberg lettuce and fresh spinach for control of foodborne pathogens, and extension of shelf-life...

Tri-tip E. coli Loophole Needs to Change

Posted on October 01, 2008
Had a long chat yesterday with Contra Costa reporter Larry Mitchell about the loophole around Tri-tips. The full story is at “Lawyer says meat poses E. coli risk.” Some outbreaks of illness caused by E. coli can be blamed on a rule allowing tainted meat to be sold, a Seattle attorney claimed Tuesday...

At least 39 E. coli Cases in Michigan, Illinois, New York, Ohio and Oregon and the Count Likely Will Continues to Rise

Posted on September 30, 2008
The number of confirmed E. coli cases continues to climb in Michigan and Illinois.  Numbers from New York, Ohio and Oregon have yet to be counted.  At least 39 cases with the same DNA fingerprinting have been identified in five states.   In Michigan, some of the cases are at Michigan State University, the University of Michigan and the Lenawee County Jail...

Cadbury, The Company that in 2006 Brought You a Salmonella Recall Considers Legal Action Against Sanlu and Fonterra - Too Bad the Sick Chinese Children do not Have the Same Recourse

Posted on September 30, 2008
In 2006 Cadbury withdrew a million chocolate bars, which were found to be contaminated with a rare strain of salmonella.  Now faced with another recall of its product, Cadbury says it will consider taking action against a manufacturer in China if some of its products are found to be contaminated with the chemical melamine...

E. coli Cases in Michigan, Illinois, New York, Oregon and Ohio Linked to Aunt Mid's Climbs to 40 - Aunt Mid's Refuses to Name Suppliers

Posted on September 30, 2008
The number of confirmed E. coli sickness cases continues to climb in Michigan. The Michigan State Department of Community Health says 30 cases with the same DNA fingerprinting have been identified. Some of the cases are from Michigan State University, the University of Michigan and the Lenawee County Jail...

The Illinois Department of Public Health is warning of E. coli risks from iceberg lettuce distributed by Aunt Mid's

Posted on September 29, 2008
Health officials say at least five Illinois residents were hospitalized after contracting the bacteria between late August and mid-September. A sixth also was infected by E. coli.  All reportedly ate iceberg lettuce supplied by Detroit-based Aunt Mid's Produce Company...

FDA Updates Health Information Advisory on Melamine Contamination

Posted on September 28, 2008
Well, I left at 4:00 PM on Saturday from Beijing after a week, landing in Seattle at 12:00 PM on Saturday - don't ask.  While in the air, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began alerting consumers that seven Mr. Brown instant coffee and milk tea products are being recalled by the Taiwanese company, King Car Food Industrial Co...

Sanlu Fonterra Melamine Baby Formula Disaster - What is Needed is a Free Press and a Functioning Legal System

Posted on September 28, 2008
I am catching up on both sleep and US News reports. This morning I read the New York Times summary of the events so far in the Sanlu Fonterra Melamine Baby Formula Disaster – “Despite Warnings, China’s Regulators Failed to Stop Milk,” and the Washington Posts summary – “China's Tainted-Milk Crisis Grows Despite Official Claims...

Aunt Mid's Produce Company E. coli-contaminated Lettuce Linked to Illnesses in Michigan, Illinois, New York, Ohio and Oregon

Posted on September 27, 2008
Although the source of bagged, chopped iceberg lettuce delivered to Aunt Mid's had yet to be identified. A good guess would be California this time of the year, specifically the Salinas Valley (See growing season data).  Aunt Mid's is ready to point the finger - from its website: The health alert has identified Aunt Mid's as one of the wholesale processors who sold institutional-sized iceberg lettuce product to the establishments which served the affected persons...

Aunt Mid's Produce Company E. coli Linked to Lettuce in Michigan Illnesses

Posted on September 26, 2008
The Michigan Department of Community Health is issuing a public health alert after dozens of cases of E. coli surfaced. It now appears the E. coli outbreak is linked to iceberg lettuce that came from a wholesale distributor. As a precautionary measure, the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) is issuing a public health alert due to illnesses from the 26 cases of E...

Is it "third times the charm" or three strikes you're out" for Amarillo Salmonella IHOP?

Posted on September 25, 2008
The number has gone up again - now it's 26 cases of salmonella that the Amarillo City Health Department is investigating linked (again) to the IHOP on Western in Amarillo.  The IHOP will be closed (again) until the Health Department does its inspection...

China Food Safety Conference Begins and Ends on "Sour" Note

Posted on September 25, 2008
Well, my talk on why it is NOT a good idea to poison your customers was well attended.   I did get a chance to pitch the pros of the civil justice system as a way of giving consumers rights against companies who poison children.   I have been invited back to give a series of lectures to law schools...

Two gorillas have become the latest victims of China's toxic melamine milk-powder health scandal

Posted on September 25, 2008
Sanlu, now you have done it.  Two gorillas, both from Hangzhou Wildlife World in eastern Zhejiang province and aged one and three, had been diagnosed with crystallization in their urine, according Chinese media.  The news came with the revelation that Chinese officials, suppressing "bad news" during the Olympic games, had ordered a cover-up of the scandal...

Melamine White Rabbit Candy Being Pulled From World Markets

Posted on September 25, 2008
World-wide, Food safety chiefs have ordered White Rabbit Creamy Candies to be taken off shelves amid fears they may be contaminated with poisonous plastic.   Dangerous levels of the melamine substance have been found in the White Rabbit Creamy Candies, sold in Asian and Chinese food stores, and now banned around the world...

27 E. coli Cases at MSU Linked to 8 More at UM and a County Jail

Posted on September 24, 2008
The same genetic strain of E. coli bacteria that sickened students at Michigan State University this month has been linked to at least eight other cases throughout Michigan, including one at the University of Michigan and five at the Lenawee County Jail...

Looking for Melamine, Enterobacter sakazakii Bacteria Discovered in Sanlu Powdered Milk Formula

Posted on September 24, 2008
As if Sanlu does not have enough to worry about - A pathogenic bacterium has been found in milk powder that was also contaminated with melamine, according to a report in the Lanzhou Daily.  The report said that the Administration of Quality and Technology Supervision in Gansu Province issued an emergency notice on September 21, saying that Sanlu’s older and younger infant formulas contained enterobacter sakazakii as well as the toxic melamine...

E. coli O157:H7 Cases Grow to 24 Linked to Forest Ranch Volunteer Fire Department Tri-tip Cookout - Olivia Titus Hit with Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome

Posted on September 24, 2008
The Butte County California Public Health Department (BCPHD), announced today the number of identified E. coli O157:H7 cases has grown to 24 and more are probable as the investigation into the outbreak continues. Four have been hospitalized.  Six-year-old Olivia Geiger-Titus has developed Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome...

Live Blogging at The China International Food Safety and Quality Conference

Posted on September 23, 2008
Well, there are several Chinese delegates missing at today’s opening session. However, all of the speakers thus far have all mentioned the ongoing and growing crisis in China infant formula. The numbers still are shocking – 55,000 sickened, 13,000 hospitalized, hundreds with acute kidney failure and four deaths (assuming these numbers are close to accurate)...

Firemen's Fundraiser May be Victim of E. coli Regulation Loopholes

Posted on September 23, 2008
Being in China watching the implosion of its Food Safety system, makes one think that China is the only problem in the food world - far from it.  As I have said before, although we need to be concerned about imports, US Corporations still do a great job of poisoning our own citizens...

What Would Mao Have Done?

Posted on September 23, 2008
It appears that Sanlu, the Chinese company whose tainted powered baby milk has sickened at least 53,000 children, failed to report complaints about the product since last December.  The government today has blamed tainted milk products for four deaths...

53,000 Chinese Children Sickened by Melamine Contaminated Milk Powder

Posted on September 22, 2008
From a Chinese public official: "Public confidence can only be rebuilt on merciless punishment," he said. "None of those companies lacking professional ethics or social morals will be let off." Today, while I walked through the Temple of Heaven, Tienanmen Square, the Forbidden City and several miles of Hutongs, 13,000 Chinese children remained in the hospital with at least 100 suffering acute kidney failure...

Melamine Tainted Milk, Yogurt and Now Candy - I Have Only Been Here 14 Hours

Posted on September 21, 2008
Arrived in Beijing Sunday night in a heavy rain storm.  Did, however, have time to drag a few friends to a Houtong-located night spot - Cafe Sambal.  I had the curry - and beers.  The food was superb, but we were forced to huddle inside as the plastic roof did not hold up to the rain...

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