Two executives of a family-owned Kansas meat company are charged in a six-count criminal indictment with processing chickens after USDA inspectors left for the day, selling them as if they were USDA-inspected, and then shipping the poultry across state lines.The 10-page indictment has plenty of detail about the criminal charges for the unusual violations, but does not contain any explanation...
A lawsuit will be filed on behalf of a 5-year-old Washington state child who developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a serious condition that can lead to kidney failure, after drinking raw milk allegedly contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.The claim will be filed in Thurston County by the Seattle food safety law firm Marler Clark (sponsor of Food Safety News) against...
A St. Louis man is the second person to seek damages from a Missouri grocery chain and an Oklahoma produce distributor after being sickened during an E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in St. Louis County Circuit Court.Charles Meyer, 61, ate romaine lettuce and other salad bar items several times from a Schnuck...
Ground beef sold to Americans is going to undergo more E. coli testing in 2012, and the historic decision to require it was 2011's 4th more important food safety story.For the first time since 1994, when the E. coli strain O157; H7 was banned from meat, six more serotypes of the pathogen were declared as adulterants by Dr. Elisabeth Hagen,...
A short-lived federal court case, Del Monte Fresh Produce versus the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was 2011's 5th most important food safety story.The case was notable for several reasons. Del Monte tried to get a federal judge to question the science of epidemiology and set a standard in which only the "smoking gun" of a positive genetic test...
A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of a Webster, NY woman and her child who say they were infected with Salmonella from contaminated pine nuts distributed by New Jersey-based importer Sunrise Commodities.According to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Rochester, the woman fell ill on Oct. 21, 2011, days after eating Turkish pine nuts purchased from a...
A Missouri woman who spent 11 days in Mercy Hospital in Creve Coeur with kidney failure, a blood clot in the lung, and atrial fibrillation from being infected with E. coli O157:H7 is suing St. Louis-based Schnucks Markets.On Oct. 12, 19, and 20, Mary Kozlowski says she dined at the Des Peres Schnucks on Manchester Road in St. Louis County...
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has sued Whole Foods Market Group to reinstate a former employee who was allegedly fired for reporting health concerns regarding a raw sewage spillage at its Miami Beach store.The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, resulted from an investigation by OSHA that found...
A third lawsuit has been filed against a pine nut importer over the multistate outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) first announced Oct. 26.According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 43 people in six states were infected with the outbreak strain of SE after eating pine nuts imported from Turkey. A Fairport, NY mother and her child are...
The requirement that lawsuit settlements reached on behalf of children go back to federal court for approval is giving the public an early look at what last year's nationwide Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak may eventually cost egg baron Jack DeCoster's insurer.The 2010 SE outbreak sickened at least 1,939 people and led to the recall of more than a half billion eggs....
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