Lawsuits & Litigation

No Ruling Yet in GM Sugar Beet Case

Farmers are going to have to wait a little while longer before they know whether they'll be able to plant this year's crop of genetically modified sugar beets. 

Federal District...

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Salmonella Suit Filed Against Alamosa

A lawsuit was filed yesterday on behalf of 40 individuals who fell ill with severe gastrointestinal symptoms in March 2008 after drinking from a public water system. The suit was...

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Lawsuit Filed Against Pepper Producer

A lawsuit was filed last week on behalf of the family of Donna Pierce, a 69-year-old woman from Hayward, CA who died after consuming Salmonella-contaminated white pepper in April 2009....

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Court Shuts Down Maryland Veal Operation

A Maryland veal calf dealer selling about 1,200 animals a year has agreed to shut down after years of refusing to change the way he used drugs in his business.William...

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Salsa Poisoning Part of Revenge Plot

A plea deal in the federal criminal case over last year's use of a dangerous pesticide to poison the patrons of a Mexican restaurant in Lenexa, KS means the wife...

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'Pop Artist' Pleads Guilty To Misbranding

A plea agreement that could get him off with probation is in the works for the self-proclaimed "pop artist" who inserted himself in the Tiger Woods story.Jason Kay, 38, of...

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Poultry Litter Trial Over: No Decision Yet

Lawyers making closing arguments waited a week for an ill U.S. District Judge Gregory K. Frizzell to return to the bench, but the chicken waste trial did come to an...

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Ten Years of Bribery and Bad Tomatos

In ten years of tomato racketeering and bribery, it was probably inevitable that food safety would take a back seat at California-based SK Foods.  But with the federal grand jury...

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Kosher Meat Plant Raided, Owners Charged

Following the great immigration raid at the kosher Agriprocessors plant in the Iowa town of Postville on May 8, 2008, practically the whole criminal law book has been used to...

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Cargill Admits Liability in E. coli Case

According to KARE 11 News in Minneapolis, MN, the Minnesota company accused of producing contaminated meat that left a former dance instructor paralyzed has admitted fault in the case.  ...

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Opinion & Contributed Articles

Foodborne Illness By The Numbers

Robert L. Scharff, with the help of funding from the Produce Safety Project at Georgetown University, recently published a study analyzing the financial impact of foodborne illness in the United...

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Living with ESRD

What It Is Like To Live With End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)?In honor of March's official designation as National Kidney Month, fellow Food Safety News contributing writer Dave Babcock recently...

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