Minnesota Food Poisoning Lawyer

Comcast Airs In-Depth News Interview with Attorney Fred Pritzker on Food Safety

Comcast Airs In-Depth News Interview with Attorney Fred Pritzker on Food Safety

The producer of Comcast Newsmakers, a topical news  program that features in-depth interviews with national experts in their respective fields, requested an interview recently on my favorite subject.  Here is a news recap of the interview conducted by news anchor…

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Pritzker Olsen Representing Victims in Salami Salmonella Outbreak

Pritzker Olsen Representing Victims in Salami Salmonella Outbreak

The following press release from our office was distributed today by PR Web:

Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) February 25, 2010 — Pritzker Olsen law firm has been retained to represent victims of a Salmonella Montevideo outbreak that has sickened at least 238 people in 44…

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Danger Still Lurks in Packaged Salad Greens

Danger Still Lurks in Packaged Salad Greens

Foodborne illness outbreaks and recalls involving pre-packaged leafy greens have sickened thousands and killed scores of Americans during the past decade.

For example, just one incident, the 2006 California baby spinach outbreak, caused 205 confirmed illnesses and three deaths. In the face of…

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Updated Searchable List of Retailers in Daniele Salami Salmonella Recall Nationwide

Updated Searchable List of Retailers in Daniele Salami Salmonella Recall Nationwide

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has updated its list of retailers known to have received pepper salami Salmonella products under recall by salame manufacturer Daniele Inc. of Pascoag, Rhode Island.

Daniele’s pepper salami products have been linked by a state…

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Standing Up For Victims of Food Poisoning

Standing Up For Victims of Food Poisoning

More than a year after Peanut Corp. of America caused a nationwide outbreak of Salmonella that killed nine people and sickened more than 700 others, victims and their families are still waiting for justice.

The late Nellie Napier: Beloved mother, grandmother and baseball…

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Daniele Salami Recall List Published in Full

Daniele Salami Recall List Published in Full

Our law firm is monitoring the state and federal health investigation into a nationwide Salmonella Montevideo outbreak that has sickened at least 230 people in 44 states. More than 50 people have been hospitalized.

Coinciding with the outbreak news, Rhode Island-based Daniele…

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A Call for Full Disclosure in Steak E coli Restaurant Outbreak

A Call for Full Disclosure in Steak E coli Restaurant Outbreak

Here’s a press release that went out today from my office:

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 7, 2010—Applebee’s and Olive Garden have been added to the list of restaurants affected by a Dec. 24 recall of nearly 250,000 pounds of steaks, medallions and other…

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Steak E. coli O157:H7 Danger Should be Labeled

Steak E. coli O157:H7 Danger Should be Labeled

Here’s the latest press release from my office:

MINNEAPOLIS, January 2010 — National food safety lawyer Fred Pritzker is calling on USDA to require E. coli O157:H7 warning labels on steaks and other beef products that have been mechanically tenderized.

In 1999, the federal agency charged…

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Silence by Health Officials Smacks of Favoritism

In a post that appeared on our web site a week before the USDA-FSIS announced a recall of  contaminated beef produced by National Steak and Poultry, an Owasso, Oklahoma establishment, we advised of the possibility that blade tenderized steak may be…

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E. coli Outbreaks And The Year In Food Poisoning

E. coli Outbreaks And The Year In Food Poisoning

MINNEAPOLIS (Business Wire) Dec. 22, 2009 — Dramatic outbreaks of food poisoning filled the first half of 2009, highlighted by 9 deaths from peanuts contaminated with Salmonella and then by a nationwide outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 in Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough.

Less…

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