A St. John Fisher College student is suing a Delaware company over tainted pine nuts.
Sean McGuirk says he ate pasta with pine nuts in it back in August. By September, he was sick with salmonella illness and hospitalized. He was notified by health officials that it was because he ate tainted pine nuts.
McGuirk
According to the CDC, in August 2011, CDC identified a sustained increase in the number of Salmonella Heidelberg isolates with the outbreak strain reported to PulseNet from New York and New Jersey. From April 1 to November 4, 2011, a total of 157 illnesses were reported in New York (93 cases) and New Jersey (64
The Salmonella attorneys of Marler Clark, the nation’s leading law firm dedicated to representing victims of foodborne illness outbreaks, have filed a Salmonella lawsuit on behalf of a Rochester, New York man who was made ill after consuming Turkish pine nuts imported by Delaware-based American Pistachio Corp. The law firm is working in conjunction with
A total of 129 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Heidelberg have been reported from 34 states.
Collaborative investigative efforts of state, local, and federal public health and regulatory agencies indicate that ground turkey is the likely source of this outbreak.
Contaminated ground turkey is being recalled from grocery stores but may still
It will be interesting to see what happens – will or will not the FDA force a recall?
Seven people in Oregon and Washington became ill with Salmonella in January after eating the Sprouter’s Northwest clover sprouts. The company subsequently recalled all its sprouts. A few days ago the FDA released 483 Inspection Report of the Sprouter’s Northwest facility.
Failure to take necessary precautions to protect against contamination of food and food contact
The family of Shirley Almer, one of nine people who died after consuming products made with Salmonella-contaminated peanuts produced by Peanut Corporation of America, filed a lawsuit against Kanan Enterprises of Solon, Ohio, maker of King Nut peanut butter, last week. The lawsuit, which was filed by Almer’s son, Jeffrey Almer and his attorneys at
FDA needs more resources to protect the public. This grandfather and Korean War Purple Heart winner should not have died from Salmonella – tainted peanut butter.
Salmonella is one of the most common enteric (intestinal) infections in the United States. Salmonellosis (the disease caused by Salmonella) is the second most common foodborne illness after Campylobacter infection. It is estimated that 1.4 million cases of salmonellosis occur each year in the U.S.; 95% of those cases are foodborne-related. Approximately 220 of each
Early tests suggested chicken feed may have become contaminated after it arrived at the Iowa farm at the center of a huge egg recall, helping investigators zero in on the cause of this summer’s salmonella outbreak.
The Food and Drug Administration said earlier that it found salmonella in feed at Wright County Egg Co. but