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The Raw Milk Story in Wisconsin Keeps Churning
17, June 2010
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News photojournalist Mike Fisher interviewed me for an in-depth report on the aftermath of Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle’s veto of a bill that would have legalized on-farm sales of raw milk and other unpasteurized dairy products.
His video aired this week…
Pritzker Olsen E. coli-HUS Client Featured in New York Times Article
26, May 2010
My client Emily Grabowski was featured in a May 27, 2010 New York Times article about the E. coli O145 outbreak involving fresh romaine lettuce from Freshway Foods, Sidney, Ohio.
Ms. Grabowski, a college freshman in New York, is one of 26 confirmed…
State Laws Vary in Recognizing Harms Suffered by Parents of Children with E. coli-induced HUS
25, May 2010
Part of our job as food safety attorneys is to understand and explain the harms and losses – short and long-term – associated with foodborne illness. This means keeping abreast of the medical and scientific literature. But also, and more importantly,…
Young HUS Victim From Ohio Escaped Death
11, May 2010
A young woman from Ashtabula, Ohio, has retained me to represent her in connection with a nearly fatal E. coli O157:H7 infection she suffered in connection with an outbreak and beef recall late last year by National Steak and Poultry…
Restaurants Need Prevention Training to Curtail Risk of Steak E. coli Outbreaks
19, December 2009
An investigation by national food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen into a possible beef steak E. coli outbreak associated with at least one national restaurant chain raises the issue once again of bacterial contamination in non-intact cuts of beef.
There are preliminary indications that…
Restaurants May be Involved in Possible Steak E. coli Outbreak
18, December 2009
In the first published epidemiological report on an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak associated with steak products, the authors warned that restaurants should be warned about the increased risk of E. coli infection from undercooked steaks previously tenderized with blades and injections of…
Color of Ground Beef Not an Indicator of Safe Food
11, November 2009
In the current Fairbank Farms E. coli outbreak, at least 25 persons in 10 states have been infected with the same strains of E. coli O157:H7, including two who have died and three who have developed E. coli HUS, or hemolytic uremic syndrome.
On Halloween, Fairbank…
Adults Failed Lincoln Middle School Students Sickened with E. coli
22, October 2009
PROVIDENCE, RI — (Press Release)– Two students from Lincoln Middle School in Lincoln, Rhode Island, were hospitalized several days after a school field trip earlier this month to Camp Bournedale in Plymouth, Massachusetts. More than a dozen other students also…
More Vaccine in Works To Stop Hamburger E. coli
19, October 2009
A Minnesota company made headlines earlier this year by winning conditional license to market a vaccine to reduce the prevalence of E. coli O157:H7 in beef cattle.
Now a graduate student at the University of Saskatchewan is said to have created a vaccine…
E. coli HUS: How it Gets Made Into Hamburger
10, October 2009
A New York Times report on ground beef E. coli outbreak dangers associated with industrial level hamburger grinding is still gaining attention around the country, including on the floor of the U.S. House and the office of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
Vilsack…
