June 2010

A Longmont, Colorado goat dairy that has been ordered to stop distributing raw milk products after 16 people became ill after drinking milk. Two children who drank goat milk from the Billy Goat Dairy required hospitalization, Boulder County Public Health reported Wednesday. Of the people who reported becoming ill from consuming the milk products, lab

South Gate Meat Co., a South Gate, Calif., establishment, is recalling approximately 35,000 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.

The products subject to recall include:

20-, 30- and 40-pound bulk packages of "SOUTH GATE MEAT

Crown I Enterprises, Inc., a Bay Shore, N.Y., establishment, is recalling approximately 3,700 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.

The products subject to recall include:

• 24, 8-ounce burgers in 12-pound boxes of "W.B. STOCKYARD

E. coli O157 has been implicated in the deaths of two The Dalles residents this past week.  The deaths appear to be confined to one household and are not linked to any known outbreak, according to a press release issued Friday by Teri Thalhofer, director of the North Central Public Health District.

“We extend our

A federal judge has approved a settlement between Cargill Meat Solutions Corp. and a Cold Spring woman injured by contaminated meat.

U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank signed off on the settlement in a sealed court order Tuesday. Terms of the settlement were undisclosed.

Our client, former children’s dance instructor Stephanie Smith sued after E. coli

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(Kansas City, Kan., June 9, 2010) – EPA Region 7 has taken a series of civil enforcement actions against three beef feedlot operations in Iowa for violations of the Clean Water Act, as part of a continuing enforcement emphasis aimed at ending harmful discharges of pollutants from concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs)

A fifth victim has been linked to an E. coli outbreak at a southern Minnesota dairy farm.  Four cases were reported last week, and all of those involved have been discharged from the hospital. The fifth case is a young child who was not hospitalized.  The other people sickened by E. coli in dairy products