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Mi Ranchito Carbonic Acid Poison Closes Restaurant

By PritzkerLaw

 Managers of a Mexican style restaurant in Lenexa, Kansas, are blaming a sudden outbreak of food poisoning illness among its customers to a backflow problem with the restaurant's soda machine.

The restaurant, Mi Ranchito, is closed under an emergency license suspension, by health officials.

The problem erupted Sunday when nine ambulances were called to the restaurant to aid customers who were vomiting, nauseous, dizzy and sweating. There were 20 people who fell ill and Dirk Fetterolf, an EMS battalion chief, told reporters that a dozen of the victims were taken to the hospital. No one was admitted.

Jennifer Bustos-Gomez, an operations director for Mi Ranchito, told Water World that the patrons were sickened by carbonic acid poison -- a result of carbonated water backflowing in the restaurant's soda machine lines and coming into contact with copper piping.

She said the same thing happened three weeks earlier, when five people went to the hospital with the same symptoms.

But Maggie Thompson of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said the restaurant would stay closed until tests confirm what caused the Mi Ranchito outbreak of illness.

Those sickened in the outbreak may have a Mi Ranchito compensation claim. To receive a free case consultation, victims are urged to complete an online form for submission via the Internet to Pritzker Olsen attorneys. Or, contact the firm by telephone at 1-888-377-8900 (toll free).

Our law firm is one  of the few in the country practicing extensively in the area of foodborne illness litigation. We have collected millions for victims of food poisoning and are deeply experienced in a complicated area of the law that applies to adulterated food.

If you or a loved one was sickened in the Mi Rancito carbonated water outbreak, call Pritzker Olsen to protect your legal rights.

Full post as published by Food Poisoning Law Blog on September 02, 2009 (boomark / email).