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Food Poisoning Law Blog

Covers news, issues and developments in food safety law.
By Pritzker, Ruohonen & Associates

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Last Entry: November 15, 2009 at 09:12:07

"Miracle Liquid" May Prevent Foodborne Illness

Posted on March 04, 2009

FDA Inspection of Texas Peanut Plant Released

Posted on March 04, 2009

Sprouts Suspected in Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on March 03, 2009

Minnesota Truck Accident Lawyer

Posted on March 02, 2009

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Minnesota Car Accident Lawyer

Posted on March 02, 2009

Corporate Dairy Supersizes E. coli Threat

Posted on March 02, 2009

E. coli in Oklahoma Water Wells Still Under Test

Posted on February 28, 2009

Nebraska Official Spots New Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on February 27, 2009

E. coli Spreads at Chicago Area Daycare Center

Posted on February 25, 2009
The Cook County Health Department has mandated that all children and adults at the KinderCare Learning Center in the Village of Lemont, Illinois, be tested for E. coli. Twenty-one children and one adult have become infected with the pathogen in an outbreak that began earlier this month, the Southtown Star newspaper reported...

Seafood Firm Neglected Food Safety Obligations

Posted on February 24, 2009
A Minneapolis seafood firm that failed to adhere to food safety laws has been blocked from operating under a ruling in federal court. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the injunction this week against Captain's Select Seafood Inc...

Salmonella Outbreak Spoils Consumer Confidence

Posted on February 23, 2009
The Salmonella outbreak caused by Peanut Corporation of America has raised consumer doubts about the safety of our food supply. The University of Minnesota Food Industry Center said that only 22.5 percent of consumers in a recent survey said they were confident that the food supply was safer than a year ago...

Peanut Corporation Ignored Texas Recall Order

Posted on February 21, 2009
Peanut Corporation of America apparently ignored an order from theTexas Department of State Health Services to recall all the products ever made at its plant in Plainview, Texas. That's what the state agency said in a press release Friday...

Oklahoma E. coli O111 Outbreak Revisited

Posted on February 21, 2009
The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality has finished its first round of testing of some 70 private water wells located within a five mile radius of the restaurant that caused a major E. coli O111 outbreak last year. According to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, the testing is being done as part of the Oklahoma Attorney General's review of what caused the outbreak...

Listeria Advisory Issued for 'Simply Potatoes'

Posted on February 20, 2009
A finding of Listeria monocytogenes in a test sample of refrigerated "Simply Potatoes Southwest Style Hash Browns'' prompted the Minnesota Department of Agriculture on Friday to issue a consumer advisory. The agency said in a press release that no illnesses have been associated with the product, but the food company that makes the potatoes issued a voluntary recall including some related products...

Trustee Selected in Peanut Corporation Bankruptcy

Posted on February 18, 2009
The U.S. Trustee has appointed a trustee in the bankruptcy/liquidation of Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), the company responsible for a nationwide Salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 642 people and killed nine. The trustee is Ron Creasy of Roanoke, Va...

More Signs of Salmonella at PCA's Texas Plant

Posted on February 17, 2009
A Food and Drug Administration spokesman says there are additional indications that peanut products containing Salmonella also came from the Plainview, Texas, plant of Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) Until recently, the FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believed the sole source of the nationwide Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak was PCA's plant in Blakely, Georgia, which has been shut down for more than a month...

Ninth Salmonella Victim Was a Dedicated Mom

Posted on February 15, 2009
Randy Napier will never forget the strife his mother went through to raise six children on her own -- once working a factory job for 98 cents an hour in the 1960s to hold things together. She was too proud to accept government assistance. "She dedicated her life to raising us,'' Napier told the Akron Beacon Journal of Ohio...

Peanut Corporation of America -- Another Madoff?

Posted on February 15, 2009
"What about the rights of the Nellie Napiers? Who's protecting them? By Fred Pritzker MEDINA, Ohio -- Feb. 15, 2009 -- I represent the families of three elderly women who died as a result of complications from Salmonella contracted from peanut butter produced by Peanut Corporation of America (PCA)...

Colorado E. Coli Outbreak Still Growing

Posted on February 14, 2009
Denver Public Health has recorded another seven E. coli O157:H7 infections in Colorado, bringing the number of cases there to 27 in an ongoing outbreak. Spokeswoman Dee Martinez told the Denver Post that the health agency's investigation is continuing...

Officials Trace Salmonella Illness to PCA's Texas Plant

Posted on February 14, 2009
Health officials in Colorado say they have traced the Salmonella illnesses of six people to the Plainview, Texas, processing plant of Peanut Corporation of America (PCA). If the finding holds up, it would widen the scope of the PCA peanut butter Salmonella investigation, which has centered for the past six weeks on the company's plant in Blakely, Georgia...

Peanut Corporation of America Out of Business

Posted on February 13, 2009
The main company responsible for a nationwide Salmonella outbreak that has killed nine people and sickened more than 636 others in 44 states has closed its doors for good -- filing for liquidation Friday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Virginia. The immediate affect on victims of the food poisoning tsunami is unclear, but is not favorable and is likely to create even more public outrage...

Company's Salmonella E-mails Talk Money

Posted on February 12, 2009
Two top executives of Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) refused to testify Wednesday before a Congressional subcommittee investigating a nationwide Salmonella outbreak that has been associated with nine deaths and more than 600 illnesses...

Texas Calls for Recall of all Peanut Corporation of America Products Shipped from Plainview, Texas Plant

Posted on February 12, 2009
A state health department has taken a firm stand against Peanut Corporation of America (pay attention FDA, and you might learn something). From a press release issued today by the Texas Department of State Health Services: The Texas Department of State Health Services today ordered Peanut Corporation of America to recall all products ever shipped from its Plainview plant...

"Cancer Couldn't Claim Her, But Peanut Butter Did"

Posted on February 11, 2009
Outraged over the tragic Salmonella death of his 72-year-old mother, Minnesota's Jeffrey Almer gave passionate testimony Wednesday before a Congressional subcommittee that corporate greed and government neglect have led to a food poisoning outbreak that has shattered lives across America...

Keeping Track of an Outbreak

Posted on February 10, 2009
With the current Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak in its sixth month, the Associated Press has released a timeline that goes all the way back to 2006. That's when the source of the outbreak – the Blakely, Georgia, processing plant of Peanut Corporation of America – first had problems...

PCA Closes Plainview Plant

Posted on February 10, 2009
Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) has closed its Plainview, Texas, plant after lab tests indicated the possible presence of Salmonella in some products. The shutdown comes one month after (PCA) closed its peanut processing plant in Blakely, Georgia...

Federal Agents Raid Peanut Corporation of America

Posted on February 09, 2009
The FBI on Monday raided facilities owned by Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), the company that federal authorities blame for the nationwide Salmonella outbreak that has been associated with eight deaths, including three in Minnesota. The Associated Press said agents executed search warrants at PCA headquarters in Lynchburg, Virginia, and at the company's idle processing plant in Blakely, Georgia...

Food Safety Changes Proposed in Georgia

Posted on February 09, 2009
Food companies in Georgia would be required under a proposed new law to notify state health inspectors within a day if internal tests show a contaminant in a plant. The Georgia Senate Agriculture Committee considered the measure Monday in response to problems uncovered at a peanut processing plant in Blakely, Georgia, that has been blamed for a Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak associated with eight deaths...

Peanut Butter Salmonella Hearing Set To Go

Posted on February 08, 2009
The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee is set to hold an important hearing Wednesday in Washington, D.C., on the Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak that has been linked by federal authorities to peanut butter and peanut products made at the Blakely, Georgia, plant of Peanut Corporation of America (PCA)...

Peanut Product Recall Rolls On

Posted on February 07, 2009
Dr. Stephen Sundlof of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave testimony this week in which he said more than 1,000 entries have been made into the agency's searchable database for product recalls related to the Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak. Products in 16 categories made by more than 75 different companies are in the database and the recall list continues to grow...

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