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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
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Timeline for Reporting E coli O157:H7 Cases
6, December 2009
When it comes to common source outbreaks of E. coli O157:H7 — regardless of whether the vehicle of transmission is ground beef, fresh produce, raw milk or fruit juice — the time from the beginning of the patient’s illness…
Hepatitis with Your Happy Meal
4, December 2009
A McDonald’s food handler in Milan, Illinois, was potentially serving Hepatitis A with every hamburger bun she touched while not wearing gloves to cover her improperly washed hands.
The result? Thirty-four confirmed cases of Hep A, including 14 people…
Garbage Plant or Meat Warehouse?
1, December 2009
After reading a story by Courthouse News about filthy conditions inside a Fort Worth, Texas, meat warehouse, you wonder if it was really just a garbage plant that contained animal flesh.
The discovery of conditions inside Halal Import Food Market’s…
Wisconsin Issues Advisory Against Farm’s Milk
28, November 2009
Pasteurization kills pathogens in raw milk that harbor the potential to create serious illness and death. We know this from science and human experience, including individual cases handled by our law firm.
But some people continue to believe that raw,…
Pritzker Olsen Representing 5-Year-Old Victim of Fairbank Farms E. coli Outbreak
27, November 2009
My law firm has been retained to represent the family of a five-year old boy from Auburn, Maine who contracted hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) as a result of eating ground beef tainted with E. coli O157:H7. The boy’s illness,…
Technologists, FDA Collaborate on Tracebacks
23, November 2009
A recent collaboration involving the Institute of Food Technologists and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is intended to improve product tracing in food production and distribution. That study, released in October 2009 and entitled Traceability (Product…
Colorado Town’s Salmonella Outbreak Underscores Importance of Chlorinating Public Water Supplies
20, November 2009
Outbreaks of Salmonella — whether from water or food — don’t get much bigger than the one that hit Alamosa, Colorado, last year between March and April.
According to a report by the Colorado Department of Public Health…
New Study Stresses Importance of Tracking Many Long-Term Effects of Foodborne Illness
16, November 2009
An important new study of the long-term negative health effects of foodborne illness should be a powerful catalyst for more meaningful food safety reform in the United States.
As a society we have been understandably focused most heavily on…
Deer Hunters Should Beware of E Coli Risk
14, November 2009
Mid- to late-November is deer-hunting season in many parts of the country. More than 11 million people hunt deer, elk and other big game in the U.S. with relatively few incidences of foodborne illness associated with the activity.
But hunters…
