The owner of Casa Romero Restaurant in East Alton is facing another lawsuit claiming food served there last May made people sick.
Five plaintiffs have named Filemon Romero, doing business as Casa Romero Restaurant as the defendant in their suit, claiming they consumed foods such as chicken enchiladas, chips and salsa there before becoming ill.
Eating healthy can also mean eating safe. In North Carolina, three food borne diseases are at the top of health inspectors’ list of things to prevent — norovirus, salmonella and listeria.
"Almost everyone that acquires a listeria infection is hospitalized, and about 20 percent die," said Susan Grayson, head of the Dairy and Food
Nearly 20 percent of the consignments of chicken and other poultry imported into Finland last year contained salmonella.
In the National Food Agency Finland inspections, salmonella was discovered in poultry consignments from Poland, Hungary, France, and Brazil.
In all, 54 poultry consignments were subjected to random inspections.
Salmonella was detected in nine of them