September 2006

On Monday, Marler Clark will file another lawsuit on behalf of a victim of the recent E. coli O157:H7 outbreak traced to contaminated spinach. The lawsuit will be filed against Natural Selection Foods, LLC and National Selection Foods Manufacturing, LLC in federal court in Utah on behalf of Murray, Utah resident Sheila Leafty and her young son, Brayden. Brayden is one of at least 14 Utah residents who have become ill with E. coli O157:H7 infections after eating contaminated spinach produced by Natural Selection Foods. 

Marler Clark also added both Natural Selection companies to two lawsuits that the firm filed last week in federal court in Oregon and Wisconsin against Dole Food Company. Health officials in those states have reported that at least 19 residents (5 in Oregon and 14 in Wisconsin) were confirmed to be part of the outbreak. On Sunday, the Food and Drug Administration reported that 109 individuals in 19 states, sixteen of whom have developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (see www.about-hus.com), have been confirmed as being part of the outbreak. One Wisconsin resident died after suffering complications of E. coli infection.

As the grower and producer, Natural Selections Foods should have been consumers’ first line of defense against E. coli entering the food supply. Instead, this company allowed contaminated produce to enter the marketplace and caused one of the largest fresh produce-related outbreaks in recent history.Continue Reading Utah child sues California spinach producer and manufacturer over E. coli illness

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control activated a "war room" of health experts at its Atlanta headquarters Saturday to deal with a nationwide outbreak of the E.coli bacteria on leafy fresh spinach that has killed at least one person, sickened more than 100 and caused restaurants and groceries across the nation to pull the vegetable…

Farm/Natural Selection Foods plant in San Juan Bautista has been linked to a nationwide E. coli outbreak that has killed one person and sickened nearly 100 others.

The E. coli outbreak is the sixth outbreak blamed on the nation’s fresh produce in five years, despite ever-tightening efforts to keep spinach and lettuce clean.

It was…

With their 6-year-old son already hospitalized with E. coli-related complications, a Brookfield couple wonders if their 3-year-old daughter might also be among those sickened in a nationwide outbreak of the bacteria linked to tainted spinach.

Anne Grintjes said that her daughter is now complaining of stomach cramps, a symptom her son had before being…

Washington state health officials said today the outbreak of E. coli had sickened a woman from Longview, who was tested in Oregon. Officials were still investigating and could not say today whether the spinach was purchased in Washington, said Deanna Mill, spokeswoman for the Washington Department of Health.

Federal health officials worked today to find…

A second case of E. coli was reported in Connecticut on today, as federal officials worked to find the source of the 10-state outbreak linked to bagged spinach.

A Wisconsin resident died and dozens of others have been sickened. The Food and Drug Administration warned people not to eat bagged spinach and said washing it…

Supermarkets around the country have begun pulling packaged spinach from store shelves due to a multistate E. coli outbreak. Ten states are reporting a total of at least 58 cases of E. coli nationwide.

The outbreak has affected a mix of ages, but most of the cases have involved women.

The Centers for Disease Control…

One person has died, and dozens of others were sickened, in the 10-state E. coli outbreak, linked by Food and Drug Administration officials to bagged spinach. The FDA has warned people not to eat bagged spinach and said washing it wouldn’t solve the problem because the bacteria is too tightly attached.

"If you wash it…