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Fred Pritzker On Newsmakers
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Food Safety
Grading Restaurant Cleanliness
28, May 2010
Doug Powell is a food safety professor, journalist, commentator, critic and blogger. He was one of the first to aggregate food safety news and is widely read in the food safety community.
He often writes about restaurant safety and the public’s…
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…
The High Cost of E. coli and Salmonella Food Poisoning
25, May 2010
Americans pay about $3.13 billion a year in costs incurred each year by Salmonella and E. coli O157:H7 alone, according to the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP).
The center is reporting figures gathered by the U.S. Department…
Guest Speaking on Food Poisoning Litigation
21, April 2010
The Illinois Environmental Health Association has invited me to be guest speaker at the group’s Central Chapter Annual Education Conference May 13- 14. My speech is entitled, “Representing Foodborne Illness Survivors: How lawyers evaluate and prove foodborne illness claims.” 
I’m looking…
Man Paralyzed with Guillain-Barré after Drinking Raw Milk Contaminated with Campylobacter
14, April 2010
Last week I was retained by the family of a Pittsburgh-area man on life support after consuming raw milk adulterated with Campylobacter bacteria.
My client was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), a severe complication of a Campylobacter infection in which the body’s…
Comcast Airs In-Depth News Interview with Attorney Fred Pritzker on Food Safety
2, March 2010
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…
Danger Still Lurks in Packaged Salad Greens
5, February 2010
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…
Standing Up For Victims of Food Poisoning
24, January 2010
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…
Report Says FDA’s Food Facility Registry is Inept
13, December 2009
Recent outbreaks of E. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella involving peanut butter, peppers, and spinach have raised serious questions about FDA’s ability to protect our nation’s food supply. Those aren’t my words, they are the words of federal investigators who have studied the…
Chipotle Campylobacter Victim Featured in Consumer Reports Coverage on Tainted Chicken
9, December 2009
Within a few days of eating salad at a Minnesota restaurant in February 2009, Michele Lundell, a supervisor for a company that makes plastic tubing, experienced diarrhea, fever, and headache. “I kept getting sicker and sicker,” she recalled. A test…
