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Beginning in late March of 2018, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began receiving reports from various state health departments around the country of a type of food poisoning caused by contamination of a popular breakfast cereal with a type of bacteria known asSalmonella. As of Thursday, July 12th, the CDC reported that it had received confirmation of 100 unique cases ofSalmonella in 33 states. In today’s post, the defective consumer products lawyer at the Doan Law…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Center for Disease Control have been investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis infections linked to alfalfa sprouts, reports the CDC website. Although there is no connection between this Salmonella outbreak and European E. coli outbreak, the basic symptoms are the same and the dangers are still present. As of June 27, 2011, a total of 21 people infected with the strain of Salmonella Enteritidis have been reported from 5 states, including…

personal injury attorneyThe CDC reported that 99 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Agona have been reported from 23 states since the middle of July, with the outbreak linked to fresh whole papayas imported from Mexico by Agromod Produce, Inc. of McAllen, Texas. Agromod voluntarily recalled the papayas, which were imported from Mexico and distributed nationwide and to Canada through retail stores and wholesalers. But the CDC warned that contaminated papayas could still be in grocery stores and…

German Robert Koch Institute reported in July that 852 patients with hemolytic uremic syndrome were identified who had come down with the illness though the Shiga toxin-producing E. coli bacteria – including six confirmed cases in the U.S. resulting in one death. The study concluded that contaminated raw sprouts from one farm in Germany are the likely source of the outbreak, and that the farm had been closed. The sprouts produced there are no longer in restaurants or store shelves…

A reported 18,416 pounds of boneless, fully cooked ham products produced by Carolina Pride Foods, Inc., of Greenwood, South Carolina, has been liked to the dangerous foodborne pathogen, Listeria Monocytogenes, reports say. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a recall, designated as a Class I, which suggests a possible serious health hazard situation. The ham and ham products were produced mid-May and distributed throughout the southeastern United States with 10-ounce vacuum packages of CAROLINA PRIDE Smoked Diced Ham and 8-ounce…