Today Marler Clark filed six lawsuits on behalf of clients related to the 2017 I.M. Healthy brand SoyNut Butter E. coli O157:H7 outbreak. Of the six plaintiffs, three are minors who contracted acute kidney failure, hemolytic uremic syndrome, from their E. coli O157:H7 infections. All six of the plaintiffs were hospitalized for multiple days or weeks.  Four lawsuits were filed in California, one in Washington and one in Wisconsin. In March 2017, the FDA and CDC, along…

In November 2018 Cheyenne Buckingham and John Harrington wrote “31 Food Recalls That Poisoned the Most People.”  Here is the Marler Clark view of the same list. https://www.slideshare.net/marlerclark/31-of-the-biggest-recalls-in-food-safety-history-149495279…

According to reporting by “The New Food Economy” and “Food Safety News,” last Friday, a federal judge in California told the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the nation’s leading food regulator, to stop dragging its feet on the long-awaited rules surrounding food recalls and outbreaks of foodborne illness. U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ordered the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and FDA to designate a list of “high-risk foods,” create new record-keeping requirements…

Shades of 2013? FDA tested Kroger Private Selection frozen berries and they were found to be contaminated with hepatitis A. In May the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)  announced that it has begun spot testing frozen berries for hepatitis A and norovirus. The testing will last 18 months and commenced in November of last year. Townsend Farms, Inc. has notified Costco that a recent FDA test indicated that a domestic conventional frozen blackberry product manufactured…

Here is a great way to step on the National Doughnut Day message. Health officials in New Jersey’s Gloucester County are warning Dunkin’ Donuts customers about possible Hepatitis A exposure and urging people to get vaccinated. A worker at the Dunkin’ Donuts at 460 Hurffville-Crosskeys Rd. in Turnersville tested positive for the communicable liver disease, the Gloucester County Department of Health said Friday, which coincides with National Doughnut Day. “This individual worked while they were potentially…

Today is World Food Safety day. I got this email from Jeff Benedict, author of “Poisoned,” this AM after he gave a speech to a food service business yesterday – I cut out the names to protect the “innocent.” …was a great experience in Chicago.  I spoke to 400 or 500 attendees at the __________ Foodservice conference.  The cover of POISONED was on two giant screens throughout my remarks.  Lots of people were walking around the hotel with…

One of my best lawyers lives in Kentucky.  He makes Marler Clark within a few hours flight of anyone in the United Sates.  But, what is happening in his home state makes me worry about him and his family.  According to the Kentucky Department of Health, Kentucky’s latest death from hepatitis A reported this week by the state health department raised the toll to 58 in the nation’s largest outbreak of the contagious liver virus.  This is in addition…