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17 Years of Salmonella Outbreak Litigation
During this Egg Salmonella Outbreak, I have been asked more than once about our experience handling Salmonella Lawsuits. We have compiled quite a list over at Marler Clark. Salmonella is one of the most common enteric (intestinal) infections in the...
Pools have and can be dangerous
The CDC just reported on the safety of pools in America and it reminded me of the summer of 1998 when 26 children became ill from E. coli O157:H7 contracted while playing in the kiddie pool at White Water Park,...
Raw Milk: an Issue of Safety or Freedom?
The following article--topical, given recent raw milk events--has appeared on the National Law Review and at foodsafetynews.com. One need not look far to grasp the scope of this country’s food safety problems, and the personal devastation that can happen when...
Public Pools and Waterborne Illnesses
Public health violations were reported in more than 10% of public pool inspections in the United States in 2008, as reported by Pediatric Supersite today. Taken from published findings in the , data from 1997 to 2006 indicated that gastroenteritis...
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Likely norovirus outbreak at Waukesha, Wisconsin hotel
A Waukesha, Wisconsin hotel called the Country Springs Hotel is the site of a large outbreak of norovirus. At least, "Norovirus seems to be likely," Julianne Klimetz, spokeswoman for the health investigators, said Friday morning. Ms. Klimetz did add, however,...
Shigella: an all-too-frequent cause of foodpoisoning
Shigella is indeed a very frequent cause of foodborne illness. It is estimated, in fact, that more than 17,000 people become infected by Shigella every year in the USA. The routes of transmission are typically food and person-to-person contact, which...
Criminal Investigation Prompts Huntington Meat Packing to Recall 4.9 Million More Pounds of Meat
Huntington Meat Packing Inc., a Montebello, Calif., establishment, is expanding its recall of January 18 to include approximately 4.9 million additional pounds of beef and veal products that were not produced in accordance with the company's food safety plan. The...
California company recalls 864,000 pounds of ground beef
FSIS reported today that Huntington Meat Packing Inc., a Montebello, Calif. establishment, is recalling approximately 864,000 pounds of beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. Although the recall is Class I--i.e. associated with a very high risk...
The Problem with Tenderized Beef
Injury issues aside (see John Mcdonalds HUS story), the problem with tenderized beef is that it internalizes bacteria from the surface of intact cuts of beef, thereby reducing the likelihood that cooking will serve as an effective kill step. The...
My Steak has been needle or blade penetrated or hammered - Really? What about E. coli?
My email box is filling up following yet another FSIS recall – this time the issue is “mechanically tenderized” steaks contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 linked to illnesses in several states. So, how often are our steaks penetrated or hammered?...
ND Food Poisoning Victims (and the Public) Do Deserve Better
An editorial from today's Bismark Tribune hits the nail squarely on the head--the job of public health departments is to protect and oversee the public's health. That's why it is somewhat frustrating that many months after 150 people became ill...
Orca Distribution May Have Repacked Recalled Pistachios
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned consumers not to eat two brands of pistachios repacked by Orca Distribution West Inc. of Anaheim, California. The brands are: * California Prime Produce * Orange County Orchards The pistachios may be...
Food Safety Advocate William Marler to Address Trial Lawyers
MINNEAPOLIS (June 16, 2009) William Marler, food safety advocate and expert in foodborne illness litigation, will speak at the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL) conference in Minneapolis this week. Mr. Marler’s presentation on Contaminated Food Litigation will be...
Before Food Was Fast: Some Looks Back to a Time when Food was Local, Slow, and Safe
In addition to being a lawyer, I am a longtime foodie. So my attention was definitely grabbed this morning when I was listening to NPR and there were segments on two food-related books that I defintely will be reading soon....
New look for food poisoning informational Web sites
The Marler Clark network of food poisoning informational Web sites, which first appeared online in 1998, recently received a makeover. The sites, which were originally put online to provide Internet users with basic information about the illnesses caused by such...
Norovirus outbreak at Santa Cruz hotel
At least 1,000 people were exposed to what is believed to be Norovirus at a Santa Cruz, California, hotel. Santa Cruz County Public Health (SCCPH) has identified at least 80 people who were sickened as part of the outbreak. SCCPH...
Norovirus food safety infosheet
This week's Food Safety Infosheet from the International Food Safety Network gives us some good information about Norovirus, a common foodborne illness: More than 100 people reported getting sick after attending a conference at the Hilton Chicago hotel in...
Chattanooga hotel restaurant source of foodborne illness outbreak
The Chattanoogan is reporting on a foodborne illness outbreak that the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Health Department is investigating. Health Department officials said, "We received reports of persons that have become ill after attending an event Chattanooga Marriott Convention Center Friday, April...
Bad food suspected after 8 are stricken
Bob Gardinier of the Times Union (NY) reports that eight conventioneers at a town hotel were rushed to area hospitals late Tuesday after they came down with apparent cases of food poisoning. Town police and emergency medical service personnel responded...
Colonie hotel has outbreak of food poisoning
Capital News 9 (Albany, NY) reports that as many as six people have to be taken to the hospital because of apparent food poisoning at a local hotel. Emergency workers were called to the scene at the Comfort Inn in...
9 Miss Florida contestants hospitalized after bout with diarrhea, nausea
Local10.com (Florida) reports that nine contestants in the Miss Florida beauty pageant were hospitalized Tuesday evening after complaining of diarrhea and nausea. The contestants were staying at the Hilton near Miami International Airport. Miami-Dade fire-rescue officials said the contestants might...
Melinda Rogers of The Forum reports that Clay County has consistently failed to perform inspections on 119 food, beverage and lodging establishments over the past five years. A Forum investigation into county records dating back to 2002 show the county's...
Commentary from the Food Safety Network's Brae Surgeoner In years past I've spent Friday nights under the patio heaters at the Albion Hotel in Guelph, Ontario, drinking gin and tonic, and longing for summer to arrive. These days I'm more...
Gary White of The Ledger reports that Barbara Whitman's 63rd birthday was unforgettable -- and not in a good way. Whitman's two sisters took her out to one of her favorite Lakeland restaurants the night before her birthday last August....
Today's question: How do you properly cook an alligator?
Jane Zhang of the Wall Street Journal reports that a public-health officer in Sydney, Australia, had an urgent question: A consumer found a black, shiny, 1.3-centimeter-long beetle with fine, short antennas and hairy legs in a sandwich. The plastic bag...
Food-related illnesses on the rise
EchoPress.com reports that health officials are reporting an increase in digestive tract illness caused by a family of bugs known as noroviruses. At least 29 outbreaks of norovirus illness have been reported to the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) since...
A little vomit goes a long way
HotelChatter reports that Chicago's Drake Hotel suffered some bad press recently, when 150 people became ill after eating at the hotel's restaurant. Now one of them is suing. The woman, whose name was not disclosed (maybe she doesn't want it...
Marler Clark has extensive experience representing victims of foodborne illnesses such as E. coli O157:H7, hepatitis A, and Salmonella. In 1993, William Marler represented HUS survivor Brianne Kiner in her $15.6 million E. coli settlement with Jack in the Box....
Conference attendees come down with mystery illness
W USA 9 News reports that some hotel workers in the District for a convention are being evaluated for stomach ailments. The 53rd International Congress of Hotel Concierges has been under way this week at the Mayflower Hotel. But Thursday...
Health officials chasing hotel illness cause
Enquirer staff writer Jane Prendergast reports that health department investigators are still trying to figure out what made as many as 300 people sick after eating at downtown Cincinnati's Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel. Of about 1,500 people who ate at...
11 ill in Happy Valley food poisoning
The Centre for Health Protection is investigating a food poisoning case involving 11 people who ate at a buffet in a Happy Valley hotel on October 27. The nine men and two women aged 18 to 45 developed diarrhoea, abdominal...
Cracking down on food safety violators
Jim Welte reports that in the midst of the frenetic breakfast rush at McDonald's in Strawberry, Kara Skahill had no time for a McGriddle. With workers bustling all around her, Skahill, an inspector with the county's environmental health services division,...
Several hospitalised due to food poisoning
Several people have been hospitalised after eating beef from Mascot Hotel owned by the government. Many top officials who took part in the lunch organised by a public sector had to bear this. It has been reported that the beef...
Mrudu Naik and Adarsh Madhavan report that food poisoning cases are on a high. A three-month (April to June, 2005) Ministry of Health statistics reveal that a total of 127 cases were reported, a top Ministry of Health official told...
17 ill in two food poisoning cases
The Centre for Health Protection is investigating two reports of suspected food poisoning outbreaks involving 17 people upon notification by the Guangdong Department of Health. The affected people, five men and 12 women, aged 24 to 69, were among two...
More victims of illness at hotel come forward: Elms' kitchen tested for food poisoning
The Clay County Health Department said Wednesday that the number of people who became sick at a hotel is greater than they first thought, KMBC's Peggy Breit reported. At least 19 people went to a Liberty hospital with nausea, vomiting,...
The Kansas City Star reports that the number of people who felt ill after visiting an Excelsior Springs hotel early this week has risen to 73, but preliminary tests do not indicate food-borne illness. The samples that have been tested...
Tests: No food-borne illness at retreat
Richard Espinoza of the Kansas City Star reports that the first test results from cheerleaders and dancers who became sick at an Excelsior Springs hotel this week do not indicate food-borne illness. The samples that have been tested so far...
More Victims Of Illness At Hotel Come Forward
The Clay County Health Department said Wednesday that the number of people who became sick at a hotel is greater than they first thought, KMBC's Peggy Breit reported. At least 19 people went to a Liberty hospital with nausea, vomiting,...
Sandwiches, Potato Salad Suspected In Rash Of Illness
The Clay County Health Department is investigating after at least 18 people went to a hospital with nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain, KMBC's Peggy Breit reported Tuesday. Most of those who went to the hospital were members of William Jewell's...
Unknown illness hits local wrestling camp
A group of people involved with a local wrestling camp were taken to Providence Hospital in Southfield Wednesday with an unknown illness, Local 4 News reports. Fourteen children ranging in age from 9 to 15 years old and one adult...
About 100 wedding guests sickened by food poisoning in central Serbia
The Canadian Press reports that approximately 100 guests took ill after a wedding over the weekend in the central Serbian town of Kragujevac, a local health official said. The clinic for infectious diseases in the town 90 kilometres southeast of...
MARLER CLARK CALLS ON FDA TO BAN SALE OF UNPASTEURIZED JUICES
In light of the July 8, 2005 FDA recall of unpasteurized juice produced by Orchid Island Juice Co. of Fort Pierce, Florida, Seattle attorney William Marler of Marler Clark, has called again on the FDA to completely ban the sale...
Since 1993, Marler Clark has represented thousands of clients in litigation against restaurants and food companies whose food was identified as the source of illness. We strive to obtain full and fair compensation for our clients' injuries by ensuring that...
Marler Clark, Food Poisoning Lawyers Marler Clark is the nation's foremost law firm with a practice dedicated to representing victims of food poisoning. Since 1993, Marler Clark's lawyers have represented thousands of clients in litigation against restaurants and food companies...
