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Fred Pritzker On Newsmakers
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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,…
Steak E. coli O157:H7 Danger Should be Labeled
3, January 2010
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…
Silence by Health Officials Smacks of Favoritism
27, December 2009
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…
E. coli Outbreaks And The Year In Food Poisoning
22, December 2009
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…
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…
Lasting Effects Haunt Food Poisoning Victims
19, November 2009
PRESS RELEASE
MINNEAPOLIS–Nov. 20, 2009–The numbers are staggering: Each year in the United States foodborne illness causes 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths. This translates into premature death, immeasurable loss of productivity and $6.9 billion in medical costs. And…
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 the acute phases…
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…
October Spate of Ground Beef E. coli Recalls
31, October 2009
Contaminated ground beef is the largest source of E. coli O157:H7 infection in the United States and more often than not the recalls and associated outbreaks of illness flare up in the spring and summer — when warmer temperatures boost colonization of…
Officials Track E. coli Hamburger Outbreak to Packer
27, October 2009
A meat packing company that supplied ground beef to Camp Bournedale in Plymouth, Massachusetts, has recalled 1,039 pounds of product that may be contaminated by E. coli O157:H7. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has associated the Lincoln School E.…
