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Covers news, issues and developments in food safety law.
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Last Entry: November 15, 2009 at 09:12:07

Illinois Hepatitis Outbreak Not to be Taken Lightly

Posted on July 18, 2009
People sometimes shrug at the physical harm caused by hepatitis A -- an infectious virus most often spread by infected restaurant workers who do not wash their hands after going to the bathroom. In Rock Island County, Illinois, right now an Illinois hepatitis A outbreak has sickened at least 19 people and health officials at the state and county level are urging strict hygiene by restaurant workers and others to help contain the outbreak...

McDonald's, Hepatitis A Outbreak Probed in Illinois

Posted on July 17, 2009
A McDonald's restaurant in Milan, Illinois, closed early Thursday amid media reports that its employees have been screened for hepatitis A in connection with an Illinois hepatitis A outbreak. A parent of one of the McDonald's employees told WQAD...

Sickening Secrecy in Missouri Over E. coli

Posted on July 16, 2009
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources admitted this week that it withheld a report about high E. coli levels in parts of Lake of the Ozarks around Memorial Day "because they were concerned about the impact it would have on tourism and the public...

Plant That Kindled Nestle E. coli Outbreak Reopens

Posted on July 15, 2009
By FRED PRITZKER Minneapolis, July 15, 2009 -- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that Nestle is back in business making and selling refrigerated cookie dought following the Nestle outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 associated with this popular and no doubt profitable product...

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Cleanliness an Issue During Nestle Plant Inspection

Posted on July 14, 2009
Investigators from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently found two cleanliness flaws at the cookie dough plant in Danville, Virginia, that spawned the multi-state Nestle E. coli outbreak. The four investigators signed a report July 9 that said the workmanship of certain hopper valves "does not allow proper cleaning...

Anaheim Peppers Recalled by Georgia Company

Posted on July 12, 2009
A Georgia company has recalled a lot of its Anaheim peppers after the New York State Department of Agriculture found Salmonella in a sample. Anaheim peppers are a very mild chile, six to 10 inches long, that are normally used in cooking. The recalled peppers were shipped in mid June to retailers in New York, Massachusetts and Ohio by Herring Produce of Lake Park, Georgia...

Cookie Dough Outbreak is a Shame on Nestle

Posted on July 12, 2009
Nestle Toll House cookie dough has been linked to a Nestle E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 72 people in about 30 states. PritzkerOlsen, P.A., one of America's leading food safety law firms, is representing several people sickened in the outbreak...

Iowa Boy With HUS May be JBS Swift Outbreak Victim

Posted on July 10, 2009
Well-wishers from around the country are praying for the recovery of a 1-year-old boy from Iowa who has been hospitalized with a severe complication of E. coli O157:H7 disease -- a possible victim of the multi-state JBS Swift beef outbreak. The story of Isaiah Romero was first carried by KSFY-TV in Sioux Falls, where the boy has been receiving medical attention this week at Sanford Children's Hospital...

At least 3 types of E. coli tied to Nestle outbreak

Posted on July 10, 2009
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration official says health investigators have nearly exhausted all leads and may not ever find out what caused cookie dough in the Nestle E. coli outbreak to become contaminated with the pathogen. ABC's ace reporter Brian Hartman quoted the official, Dr...

Pasta Shop Suspected in Local Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on July 07, 2009
A pasta shop in Central Virginia is being investigated as the possible source of a Salmonella outbreak among six dinner guests who ate lasagna purchased from the shop's frozen foods inventory. WVIR-TV quoted the shop owner as saying the establishment is not to blame and that the lasagna was sold with instructions for safe cooking...

FDA Acts to Curb Salmonella in Chicken Eggs

Posted on July 07, 2009
Vice President Joe Biden today announced findings of the President's Food Safety Working Group, and one of the first real concrete changes of the initiative occurred simultaneously when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a new preventative rule to curb Salmonella in eggs...

New Findings in Colorado Stock Show E. coli Outbreak

Posted on July 06, 2009
Since 1996 there have been more than 100 human infectious disease outbreaks involving animals in public settings reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2000, two E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks at animal shows in Pennsylvania and Washington prompted the CDC to issue guidelines to acknowledge the risk factors: Direct animal contact and inadequate hand washing...

Cause of Texas Salmonella Outbreak Unsolved

Posted on July 04, 2009
Health investigators in Texas are examining a cluster of 25 Salmonella illnesses in and around Lockhart, Texas, but they have not yet found a cause. Doug McBride, a spokesman for the Texas Department of State Health Services, told the Austin American-Statesman newspaper that a few of those infected with Salmonellosis have been hospitalized...

Nestle E. coli FAQs Answered by Food Safety Lawyers

Posted on July 03, 2009
A problem arises when a person believes they were sickened by E. coli O157:H7, but in doctor visits never gave a stool sample -- the surest method of proving the cause of foodborne illness. The question has arisen again in the Nestle cookie dough E...

Flour Supplier investigated in Nestle E. coli outbreak

Posted on July 02, 2009
State and federal health officials are expanding their investigation into the Nestle E. coli outbreak by examining the supplier of flour to Nestle's cookie dough plant in Danville, Virginia. The Danville News quoted Food and Drug Administration spokesman Stephanie Kwisnek as saying the flour supplier will be looked at with help from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services...

JBS Swift E. coli Outbreak Short on Recall Information

Posted on July 02, 2009
By FRED PRITZKER As Americans prepare for 4th of July cookouts, we once again are faced with recalls due to beef contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, a potentially deadly pathogen. Late last week, the U.S.Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the agency in charge of the safety of our meat supply, announced a JBS Swift beef recall of 41,000 pounds...

Nestle Cookie Dough Outbreak Update: More People Sick and E. coli Found in Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough

Posted on July 01, 2009
The CDC provided updated Nestle cookie dough outbreak information today: CDC is collaborating with public health officials in many states, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the United States Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to investigate an outbreak of E...

Evidence Implicating Raw Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough as the Source of an E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak

Posted on June 30, 2009
Federal investigators continue their investigation of the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak associated with consumption of raw Nestle Toll House cookie dough that has sickened at least 69 people in 29 states. The evidence implicating the cookie dough consists of both epidemiological and microbiological evidence...

Report: Nestl� Plant at Center of E. coli Outbreak Refused FDA Inspections

Posted on June 29, 2009
by Attorney Fred Pritzker A Wall Street Journal report says that inspection reports covering the past five years show that officials at Nestlé's Danville, Va. plant, which manufactured the suspected E. coli O157:H7 tainted cookie dough, "refused to allow a Food and Drug Administration inspector to review consumer complaints or inspect its program designed to prevent food contamination...

JBS Swift Beef Recall

Posted on June 29, 2009
Beef Recall Alert: JSB Swift Beef Company, a Colorado firm, has recalled about 380,000 pounds of beef products due to possible contamination with E. coli O157:H7. The recall was prompted by an outbreak that has sickened at least 18 people nationwide...

Important Tips for Preventing Cross-Contamination

Posted on June 25, 2009
by Attorney Fred Pritzker The recent multistate E. coli O157:H7 outbreak associated with Nestlé Toll House refrigerated cookie dough products is still under investigation by state and federal health authorities. At this stage of the investigation, there is no solid hypothesis as to how cookie dough became contaminated with a pathogen generally found in the feces of cattle...

What To Do If You Suspect an E. coli Infection

Posted on June 24, 2009
National food safety law firm PritzkerOlsen Attorneys is receiving hundreds of calls and emails from people concered about E. coli O157:H7 exposure from the Nestle Toll House cookie dough outbreak. Here are some important facts to keep in mind. The symptoms of E...

Pritzker Olsen Calls For Nestle to Pay Victims' Bills

Posted on June 23, 2009
Nestle Toll House cookie dough packages are printed with a warning against raw consumption of the product. In a press release, the founder and president of national food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen Attorneys explains the emptiness of the warning and calls on Nestle to immediately pay medical bills and lost wages for victims of the ongoing Nestle cookie dough E...

Minnesota, Washington, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts Have Most Nestle Cookie Dough E. coli Cases

Posted on June 20, 2009
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has weighed in with its first report on the Nestle cookie dough E. coli outbreak and recall, saying that young females dominate the known universe of victims. The CDC also named all states involved in the outbreak...

E. coli Probe Centers on Toll House Cookie Dough

Posted on June 19, 2009
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has warned consumers in that state not to eat Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough, which health investigators believe may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The announcement, carried by Channel 9 News in Denver, quoted state health officials as saying there are at least 66 E...

Nestle Cookie Dough Production Halted at Plant

Posted on June 19, 2009
Pritzker Olsen Attorneys has begun its own investigation and is compiling information for a possible Nestle cookie dough lawsuit in connection with the ongoing, 28-state outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 that has been associated with raw Nestle cookie dough...

Nestle Cookie Dough Recalled: E. coli Investigated

Posted on June 19, 2009
Federal and state health investigators have associated an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 in 28 states with consumption of raw, prepackaged Nestle cookie dough. The company has announced a Nestle cookie dough recall affecting all varieties. In addition, the U...

Judge Delays Filing Deadline for PCA Salmonella

Posted on June 13, 2009
A judge in Virginia has extended the deadline for Salmonella victims of Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) to file claims against the company in bankruptcy court. The deadline had been set for Monday, June 15. But U.S. Bankruptcy Judge William E...

CDC Issues Retropsective On Food Poisoning in 2006

Posted on June 12, 2009
With the caveat that only a small percentage of food poisoning cases in the United States are part of an identifiable outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a retrospective report on foodborne illness outbreaks that happened in 2006...

Food Manufacturers Stand In Way of Progress

Posted on June 09, 2009
A string of national Salmonella and E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks over the past year, coupled with strong new leadership at FDA provided momentum for the passage of meaningful food safety legislation in Congress. In his latest editorial on behalf of millions of Americans who have suffered from food poisoning, national food safety lawyer Fred Pritzker laments how powerful lobbyists for the food manufacturing industry are trying to water down needed reforms...

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