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
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
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.
In
Another lawsuit has been filed in the Fairbank Farms E. coli O157:H7 outbreak, this time on behalf of Alice Smith. The suit was filed by Marler Clark, the Seattle-based
In documents filed ahead of this week’s closing arguments in a trial against 11 poultry companies, the State of Oklahoma says it could live with an application limit of
Harold Lee Hanks was so ill, weak, and disoriented by Jan. 23 after eating salami he purchased at his local Wal-Mart six days earlier that his wife demanded that he
A settlement has been reached between victims of the Peanut Corporation of America-caused Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court trustee.
It will allow $12 million in personal
Stewart Parnell’s testimony in front of the Congressional Subcommittee on Oversight and Intelligence in February 2009 had many industry insiders and legislators gearing up for what they believed could
To no one’s surprise, raw milk dairyman Mark McAfee, owner of Organic Pastures Dairy Company near Fresno, Calif., has come out swinging against the federal Food and Drug Administration’
The ammonia beef saga has taken an interesting twist.
Right before the New York Times published an article questioning the pervasive use of ammonia in beef processing, lawyers at Marler
The first lawsuit has been filed in the Daniele International, Inc. recall of 1,240,000 pounds of sausage products due to potential Salmonella contamination. The claim was filed on
The first E. coli O157:H7 claim against National Steak and Poultry (NSP), an Oklahoma meat manufacturing facility, was filed yesterday in the Third Judicial District Court of Salt Lake