The California Assembly Agriculture Committee defeated Senate Bill 202, and did not vote on Senate Bills 200 and 201, all bills introduced by California Senator Dean Florez. The bills were introduced in response to last year’s E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks traced to contaminated spinach and lettuce grown in California.
During the hearing, Assembly Member Nicole
A 22-month-old child has been hospitalized with hemolytic uremic syndrome in the Birmingham, Alabama, Children’s Hospital.
Her grandfather, Dr Malone Chandler, told The Troy Messenger in regards to Mallory’s condition, “The concern for Mallory is that her kidney function began to decline in the past 24 hours. She is on dialysis, temporarily, and she has
Two Vermont children have been hospitalized in Boston with hemolytic uremic syndrome secondary to E. coli infection.
According to family and friends a five-year-old Barre Town girl and a three-year-old girl from Randolph both remain on dialysis after being diagnosed with hemolytic uremic syndrome – a potentially life-threatening disease that destroys red blood cells and
A lawsuit was filed today against the Meat Market, a Fresno, California, business that was identified as the source of an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in May. The lawsuit was filed in Fresno County Superior Court by Seattle-based Marler Clark and San Diego-based Gordon & Holmes on behalf of Donald Jorgensen, an 80-year-old Fresno resident
A first grade student from Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey died Thursday after suffering from an E. coli infection.
Health officials are investigating the source of the child’s illness, but have yet to find the source. Jackson Avenue School sent a letter home to parents, alerting them of the child’s illness and death, and notifying
Federal prosecutors have decided against charging companies involved in the September 2006 E. coli outbreak traced to contaminated spinach.
Following the outbreak, which led to the deaths of three people and sickened about 200 others, FBI agents raided two produce processing plants and several farms for evidence of environmental and food-safety violations. The investigation did
Two children in Yankton County have been diagnosed with E. coli infections. Although a source has not yet been reported, KXMC reports that health officials are working to determine common exposures between the two children who have been diagnosed.
In addition, health officials in Ontario, Canada, have determined that Yaman restaurant, the source of an
The Captain’s Galley restaurant in China Grove, N.C. is closed indefinitely after a recent E. coli outbreak that health officials believe is probably connected to a slaughtered goat.
Cable News 14 from Charlotte, North Carolina reported on the bizarre practice of allowing employees to slaughter a goat in a restaurant.
An 86-year-old woman died last
Chris Waldrop, director of the Consumer Federation of America’s Food Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. sees a disturbing return:
"It looked like (improvements in food safety) were working, but something has happened. Something’s going on in the food supply chain. We need to figure out what that is. We can’t let our guard down. We
Seattle-based Marler Clark law firm struck back in a lawsuit filed suit yesterday alleging negligence against meat producer PM Beef and retailer Lund Food Holdings.
According to Minnesota Lawyer, Anne Herwig was one of seven Minnesotans infected with E. coli bacteria this spring, leading PM Beef to voluntarily recall 117,500 pounds of beef trim products.