Health Law

Ohio Health Officials Study E. coli Cluster - 7 More Victims Since Death

Posted on June 14, 2008
We reported on the death E coli victim in Franklin County, Ohio earlier this month. Since that report, health officials in Central Ohio have come up with 7 additional cases. A 55-year-old Delaware County woman who was hospitalized for three days with an E...

E coli Discovered In Dutch's Meat: Recall Underway

Posted on June 09, 2008
There’s a Class 1, High Health Risk recall of 13,275 pounds of ground beef underway in the Trenton, N.J. area due to possible contamination with E. coli 0157:H7. The recall involving Dutch’s Meat, Inc. of Trenton was announced Sunday (6/8/08) by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)...

E. coli Outbreak At Minnesota Day Care Center

Posted on June 08, 2008
The town of Slayton in Southwest Minnesota isn't much.   A couple thousand people living around the intersection of a couple of highways.   Still, it's experiencing an unusual share of food-borne illnesses. In May 2007,  a couple of restaurant workers at Slayton's Pizza Ranch were said to be responsible for a Hepatitis A outbreak that required 1,200 people to get shots or vaccines...

Romaine Lettuce Source Of E coli Outbreak In Washington State

Posted on June 06, 2008
Late night news developments seem to be getting common.  Here's what's just been filed on the Marler blog: King 5 TV just reported that the Washington State Department of Health announced that nine confirmed cases of E. coli O157:H7 infection found in north Thurston and south Pierce counties (appears to be college students - food service) have been traced to bagged, commercial romaine lettuce...

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E coli Related Death Reported In Franklin County, Ohio

Posted on June 05, 2008
Ohio's Franklin County Health Department tonight (6/4/08) is reporting that the death of a 52-year old Gahanna woman on May 27th was E. coli-related. Ohio has had 12 confirmed cases of E. coli so far this year. There were 92 confirmed cases in 2007 and 160 the year before...

E. coli Victim Sues Yum For $5 Million

Posted on May 30, 2008
The Reading Eagle this morning (5/30) reports that Yum Brands, parent company of Taco Bell, is being sued for $5 million in federal court by Debra Moyer of Boyertown.   The newspaper said the woman was the victim of E coli contaminated food served by a Gilbertsville Taco Bell in 2006...

Amish Macaroni Salad Recalled--Voluntarily, Due To E. coli

Posted on May 29, 2008
When the U.S. Food & Drug Administration announces your recall on its website, it's not like you really have a choice.   Nonetheless, most companies use the occasion to tout how they've acted voluntarily.   This one is good example: Orval Kent Foods is voluntarily recalling approximately 23,000 pounds of Amish Macaroni Salad that may pose a health risk...

Tyson "Chubs" Sold To Sherm's Food In Medford May Be Tainted With E. Coli 0157:H7

Posted on May 22, 2008
The U.S. Food Safety & Inspection Service is out with an "alert" about beef due to possible contamination with E. coli O157:H7. The public health alert is for approximately 808 pounds of ground beef products produced at Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc...

Victim of Taco Bell E. coli Outbreak Sues Yum Brands

Posted on May 21, 2008
An E. coli lawsuit was filed today against Yum Brands—the parent company of Taco Bell—in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Debra Moyer, a resident of Boyertown, PA, who became gravely ill with an E...

JSM Recalls Ground Beef: How Much Isn't Known

Posted on May 17, 2008
More beef is being recalled due to concern about possible contamination by E. coli 0157:H7. JSM Meat Holdings Company, Inc., a Chicago, Ill., firm, is voluntarily recalling an undetermined amount of beef products intended for use in ground products because they may be contaminated with E...

U.S. Military Defends Against Attack by E coli On Elite Bases

Posted on May 16, 2008
The United States Department of Defense is taking---well some defense against E. coli O157:H7---by mounting a recall of all 85 percent lean ground beef sold during May in commissaries on certain military bases around the country.DOD issued the recalled after conducting lab tests on one beef supplier to the military...

Your Chance Of Picking Up The Wrong Pound of Ground Beef: 1 in 400.

Posted on May 13, 2008
We've been reading through some of the written comments the United States Department of Agriculture received in conjunction with the big April meeting on E. coli 0157:H7.We found a letter from Dr. Harry F. Hull,  a pediatrician from St. Paul, most interesting...

Utah E. Coli Victims Sue Wendy's As It's Consumed By Triarc

Posted on May 08, 2008
One thing that has always struck us as odd is the difference between the way society treats individual versus corporate wrongdoing.   Take for example, someone who has one drink too much and then drives, ending up causing serious injury or death to someone else...

Canada Says Beef Is Contaminated With E. coli O157:H7

Posted on May 03, 2008
Canada has issued a border-to-border  "Health Hazard Alert" over ground beef that may be contaminated with E coli O157:H7.This  "Health Hazard Alert" in Canada is pretty much like a recall in the United States, except there isn't much focus on returning the product nor on how much meat is actually involved...

Whoever Brought The Roast Beef Might Not Get Invited Back

Posted on April 28, 2008
Omaha's Midlands News Service is reporting on a private party in March that went bad, giving many of the guests a bad bout of E. coli. Site of the gathering was Sarpy County, which makes up the southern edge of Omaha's metro area. Midlands' Michael O'Connor reports: State health officials are continuing to investigate an E...

Common Misspellings of E. coli - e.coli, e coli, e cloi, ecoli

Posted on April 18, 2008
E. coli O157:H7 was identified for the first time at the CDC in 1975, but it was not until seven years later, in 1982, that E. coli O157:H7 was conclusively determined to be a cause of enteric disease. Following outbreaks of foodborne illness that involved several cases of bloody diarrhea, E...

Rural America Offers To Cure All (But E coli) With Raw Milk

Posted on April 09, 2008
M.L. Johnson, writing in the Seattle Post Intelligencer, charts the rapid growth in Raw Milk dairies and she took time to speak with Bill Marler, the Seattle attorney representing children damaged by rural America's money making scheme.  She writes:Seattle attorney Bill Marler is suing Organic Pastures, the nation's largest organic raw milk dairy, on behalf of two children who fell ill after consuming its products...

FSIS Wants To Reduce Incidence of Deadly E. coli

Posted on April 04, 2008
Next week, the Food Safety & Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is  putting  reducing the Incidence of E. coli O157:H7 in Raw Beef on the menu in meetings with its many stakeholders.The public sessions will be held on Wednesday, April 9, from 8 a...

2006 E. coli Tainted Spinach Changing Who Pays For Recalls

Posted on April 01, 2008
We’ve been doing a lot of thinking about recalls lately. We know its not true, but by their combined actions, we sometimes cannot help but thinking the food industry and its regulators are in cahoots to drag out recalls and confuse the public. When it became apparent that about one third of the 143 million pounds of beef recalled from the ill-fated Chino slaughterhouse was in the meat lockers of the nation’s public schools, we thought about local taxpayers getting stuck with the disposal costs...

E coli Kills 8-Year Old Girl In Ozarks

Posted on March 28, 2008
An isolated case in an isolated place where no one has had E coli in four years.   However, 8-year old Evie Hope Wray of Theodosia, MO was a confirmed E coli case; one that evolved into Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS),   And HUS killed Evie, who was a soccer and cat-loving second-grader at Lutie Elementary School...

FSIS Holding Meeting on E. coli 0157:H7

Posted on March 26, 2008
The United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety & Inspection Service is hosting a public meeting on April 9, 2008 titled: E. coli O157:H7 - Addressing the Challenges, Moving Forward With Solutions.FSIS will sponsor the public meeting focused on E...

FSIS's Dr. Richard A. Raymond Tells Congress Why There Have Been More E. coli Recalls

Posted on March 13, 2008
Dr. Richard A. Raymond is Medical Doctor from Nebraska.  Since July 2005, he has been Undersecretary for Food Safety at the United States Department of Agriculture.  He was asked by the U.S. House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations why there's been an uptick in e coli-related recalls...

Outbreak in Texas said to have been caused by shiga-toxins

Posted on March 11, 2008
Texas health officials are investigating an outbreak that has already resulted in one death, apparently caused by a Shiga toxin carried by bacteria.  KEYE TV reported today that in addition to four cases in Bastrop County, Lee and Fayette Counties have reported illnesses caused by a Shiga toxin-producing bacterium...

Marler's List of Needed Reforms

Posted on March 02, 2008
We think the use of such phrases as "tipping point" and "perfect storm" are often over-used.  However, something may have happened this past week when comes to meaningful reform of the broken system for food safety.After the cruel treatment of "downer" cows, the assault on the nation's school lunch program, and the nation's biggest beef recall in history,  Chairman John D...

USDA Has Yet To Release Audit On E coli Controls

Posted on February 24, 2008
We have seen some good work in the past from Philip Brasher, who works out of the Washington, D.C. bureau for the Des Moines Register.  On Sunday, Brasher took on the Chino slaughterhouse scandal, which led to the largest recall of beef in U.S. history...

Indiana Report On Galena School Outbreak Due Soon

Posted on February 20, 2008
We wish we could say that a story today by The Courier-Journal makes us feel warm and fuzzy.  Its about the soon-to-be forthcoming report from the State of Indiana on the last fall's E. coli outbreak at the Galena Elementary School in Floyd County...

"Downer" Cattle More Likely To Carry E coli

Posted on February 18, 2008
“The ban on non-ambulatory or ‘downer’ cattle is one of many steps in a robust system to produce safe beef, but it is not the only step taken to ensure the safety of the beef supply. The beef we eat is safe because there are multiple safety hurdles before it arrives at our grocery stores or restaurants...

UK Opens "Public Inquiry" Into Death E coli Victim Mason Jones

Posted on February 12, 2008
William Tudor, the butcher jailed for food safety violations, after the meat he supplied schools in the United Kingdom killed young Mason Jones will not be testifying in the public inquiry now being held.Jones death and the illnesses of 118 confirmed cases of E coli O17H7 including 31 children who were sent to hospitals is all connected to Butchers John Tudor and Son in Bridgend, which had the contract to supply cooked meat to the schools service in late 2005...

E. coli lawsuit filed against Organic Pastures

Posted on February 08, 2008
Marler Clark filed two E. coli lawsuits against Organic Pastures on February 7, 2008. The lawsuits were filed in Fresno County Superior Court on behalf of two children who developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) secondary to E. coli O157:H7 infection after consuming Organic Pastures raw milk...

Ethanol Industry Disputes Their Grains Increase E. coli

Posted on February 05, 2008
Powerful interests often find themselves in the position where they do not care--they don't have to. The nation's ethanol industry may be in just such a position when it comes to concerns that the distiller's grains it produces increases e coli O157H7 in cattle...

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