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October 19, 2011 • Salmonella
Taylor Farms Recalls Salmonella Salad
Taylor Farms Retail Inc. is voluntarily recalling 3,265 cases of various bagged salad blends that have the potential to be contaminated with salmonella. The Salinas, Calif., company said Wednesday that its action comes after the Washington state Agriculture Department conducted a random test on a finished package of spinach. No …
October 19, 2011 • Press Releases
Marler Clark Files Cantaloupe Listeria Lawsuit on Behalf of Kansas City Family
Marler Clark food poisoning attorneys have filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Kansas City man hospitalized with Listeria. The suit is the seventh filed by Marler Clark in relation to a multi state Listeria outbreak linked to Colorado-based cantaloupe producer Jensen Farms. …
October 18, 2011 • Listeria
25 State Listeria Cantaloupe Outbreak Sickens 123 and Kills 25
As of 9am EDT on October 17, 2011, a total of 123 persons infected with any of the four outbreak-associated strains of Listeria monocytogenes have been reported to CDC from 26 states. Pennsylvania has reported their first case since the last CDC update. The number of infected persons identified in …
October 14, 2011 • Case News
October 14, 2011 • Listeria
South Dakota has one Listeria Cantaloupe case
South Dakota’s lone reported case of listeria during a nationwide outbreak is in Minnehaha County. State Health Department Epidemiologist Lon Kightlinger tells the Argus Leader that the woman who got sick is in her 60s and is hospitalized. He says officials have not been able to determine whether she ate …
October 13, 2011 • Outbreaks
October 13, 2011 • Events & Speaking Engagements
Texas Environmental Health Association Conference in Austin, Texas (2011)
Food poisoning attorney and food safety advocate Bill Marler spoke about foodborne illness litigation at the 2011 Texas Environmental Health Assocation Conference. …
October 12, 2011 • Listeria
More Deaths in Jensen Farms Frontera Listeria Cantaloupe Outbreak
CDC Reports that as of October 11, 2011, a total of 116 persons infected with any of the four outbreak-associated strains of Listeria monocytogenes have been reported to CDC from 25 states. All illnesses started on or after July 31, 2011. The number of infected persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (1), […] …
October 11, 2011 • Outbreaks
October 11, 2011 • Listeria
Montana Illnesses Linked to Listeria Cantaloupe
State health officials say a Yellowstone County case of the bacterial disease Listeriosis has been linked to a cluster of cases in six other states that is possibly tied to cantaloupes grown in Colorado. The Department of Public Health and Human Services said Wednesday that further tests are being done …
October 10, 2011 • Listeria
A second death in Louisiana has been linked to listeria-tainted cantaloupe
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has confirmed that an 87-year-old Baton Rouge area woman who died earlier this month was infected with the same strain of listeria found in the recalled cantaloupes produced by Jensen Farms in Colorado. Last week, the DHH lab linked the death of an …
October 09, 2011 • Salmonella
Thorntons Recalls Salad Due to Salmonella
Kentucky-based food company Thorntons, Incorporated announced, last October 1, a recall for two varieties of its salad products. The products are being recalled because of the possibility of bacterial contamination. The problem of potential contamination was discovered when one lot of grape tomatoes tested positive for the harmful Salmonella bacteria …
October 09, 2011 • Listeria
Listeria Attorney Listeria Lawyer Sixth Listeria Cantaloupe Lawsuits
William T. Beach consumed cantaloupe in early August. Mr. Beach subsequently fell ill and on approximately August 28th, was taken to the hospital by ambulance after his wife, Monette, found him collapsed on the living room floor, unable to speak or breathe regularly. Mr. Beach was discharged from the hospital …
October 09, 2011 • Listeria
Jensen Farms Frontera Listeria Cantaloupe Sickens 109 with 21 Deaths
Ongoing collaborative investigations by local, state, and federal public health and regulatory agencies indicate that the source of the outbreak is whole cantaloupe grown at Jensen Farms’ production fields in Granada, Colorado. Among the 84 ill persons with available information on what they ate, 78 (93%) reported consuming cantaloupes in …
October 09, 2011 • Listeria
Marler Clark Clients Call for Listeria Cantaloupe Hearings
Dear Chairman Upton and Chairman Stearns: We are the husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and children of some of the 109 people from 24 states whose lives have ended, or been permanently and grievously transformed, because they ate contaminated cantaloupes grown and sold by Jensen Farms. We write to …
October 09, 2011 • Listeria
Listeria Leads Nation in Foodborne Illness Outbreaks
With 109 sickened and 21 deaths, the Jensen Farms Frontera Listeria Outbreak is now tied as the second-most deadly foodborne illness outbreak in the United States. The numbers of ill and dead are expected to increase in this recent listeria outbreak, which has impacted 24 states. Here is a list …
October 09, 2011 • Outbreaks
October 07, 2011 • Hepatitis A
Allentown Pennsylvania Pasta Alla Rosa Linked to Hepatitis A
A warning for recent guests at an Allentown restaurant; you may have been exposed to Hepatitis A. The Allentown Health Bureau is investigating a confirmed case of Hepatitis A in an employee at the Pasta Alla Rosa Restaurant on Hamilton Street. While the Bureau says the employee only had limited …
October 07, 2011 • Listeria
Four Missouri Illnesses Linked to Listeria Cantaloupe
A fourth Missouri case of listeria has been linked to contaminated cantaloupe from a farm in Colorado. State officials say they were notified Friday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that a listeria infection in northwestern Missouri was linked to the tainted fruit. State health officials say …
October 07, 2011 • Listeria
New York Counts One Listeria Cantaloupe Death
Health officials in western New York say a person has died of listeria infection, the first death in the state linked to tainted cantaloupes from Colorado. The Ontario County Public Health Department didn’t release any other details, except to describe the patient as an older person with underlying health problems …
October 07, 2011 • Listeria
CDC – 109 sickened with 21 Dead in Listeria Cantaloupe Outbreak
CDC reports a total of 109 persons infected with any of the four outbreak-associated strains of Listeria monocytogenes have been reported to CDC from 23 states. All illnesses started on or after July 31, 2011. The number of infected persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (1), Arkansas(1), California (1), Colorado (32), Idaho […] …
October 06, 2011 • Listeria
New York Fruit Fresh Up Recalls Listeria Cantaloupe
Fruit Fresh Up, Inc. of Depew, New York is recalling approximately 4,800 individual packages of FRESH CUT CANTALOUPE AND CUT MIXED FRUIT CONTAINING CANTALOUPE because they have the potential to be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or …
October 06, 2011 • Press Releases
Marler Clark Files Sixth Listeria Lawsuit Against Cantaloupe Producer, Distributor
An Oklahoma man who was hospitalized for nearly a month with a Listeria illness filed a lawsuit against Jensen Farms and Frontera Produce, the cantaloupe's producer and distributor. …
October 06, 2011 • Case News
100 Infected, 18 Dead; Listeria Outbreak Continues
The CDC has confirmed at least 100 ill and 18 dead in the Jensen Farms cantaloupe Listeria outbreak …
October 06, 2011 • Listeria
True Leaf, Church Brothers Recall Listeria Laden Lettuce
True Leaf Farms of Salinas initially announced a recall of 90 cartons of romaine lettuce shipped to an Oregon food service distributor, which shipped the produce to Washington and Idaho. But the chief executive of Church Brothers, which sells and markets the farm’s produce, clarified Saturday that the recall involved …
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