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Foodwatch complaint targets Nestlé and Ferrero

By News Desk on May 23, 2022

A consumer watchdog has filed a complaint against Nestlé and Ferrero in relation to recent E. coli and Salmonella outbreaks involving the companies.

In the action, Foodwatch France lists seven offences including placing on the…
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Court overturns decision in Tiger Brands Listeria case

By Joe Whitworth on February 7, 2022

A court in South Africa has overturned a previous decision to make companies divulge information in relation to a deadly Listeria outbreak in 2017 and 2018.

The Supreme Court of Appeal ruling reverses a Gauteng…
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An Oregon grocer and its beef supplier are split over who pays for outbreak costs

By Dan Flynn on October 28, 2021

A grocer wants to recover more than $2.7 million from its beef supplier for an incident involving the sale of product contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.

The claim by New Seasons Market LLC and New…
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Some sickened in Salmonella outbreak in the UK ask lawyers for help

By News Desk on October 19, 2021

A number of people have asked lawyers to investigate whether their illness was part of a Salmonella outbreak linked to pork scratchings in the United Kingdom.

Among those involved are a man from Malton, North…
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Jimmy John’s franchisee could have to pay punitive damages in E. coli case

By Coral Beach on July 23, 2021

A man who was sickened by contaminated sprouts on a Jimmy John’s sandwich has been given permission by a Utah judge to seek punitive damages in a case related to his 2020 illness.

Travis Knorr…
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Prosecutors drop charges in strawberry tampering incident involving needles

By News Desk on July 15, 2021

Charges against a woman accused of putting needles in strawberries in 2018 in Australia have been dropped.

My Ut Trinh, an ex-farm worker, had been charged with contamination of goods and was scheduled to go…
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Lawsuits piling up against baby food firms over potential damage to infant brain development

By Jonan Pilet on June 23, 2021

There are reports of more than 80 lawsuits filed against firms that were named in a February congressional report about highly dangerous levels of arsenic and other poisons in baby food.

The report, requested by …
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Ag Secretary Vilsack, Food Safety Deputy Eskin in court defense of new hog inspection program

By Dan Flynn on May 6, 2021

On the same day that a federal judge in Minnesota issued an order slowing line speeds under the New Swine Inspection Program, attorneys for USDA in California filed a cutting 45-page answer to an amended…
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Former guru follower decries bio-terror guilt in new Netflix documentary

By Jonan Pilet on April 27, 2021

Ma Anand  Sheela is in the spotlight again. The mastermind behind the largest bioterror attack in U.S history, that resulted in more than 700 Salmonella infections, is the subject of a new Netflix documentary.

“Searching…
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Lawyer’s ‘severe health crisis’ could complicate Stewart Parnell’s hearing

By Dan Flynn on April 20, 2021

The attorney who led the defense of Stewart Parnell in his 2014 criminal trial is set to testify next month about “claims of ineffective assistance of counsel.” Thomas J. Bondurant Jr. is a former federal …
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