We have received numerous calls about the Salmonella Rissen spice lawsuit we filed yesterday in Los Angeles – the first in the United States.  News of that lawsuit was released by the Associated Press, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and numerous other TV and media outlets.    I was interviewed today by a very nice reporter named Linh Tat of the [...]

PRESS RELEASE – May 5, 2009 – The Houston-based law firm of Simon & Luke has filed the first lawsuit in the country stemming from a multi-state salmonella outbreak related to Lian How and Uncle Chen’s spices manufactured by Union International Food Company of Union City, California.  The spices contained Salmonella Rissen – a very [...]

We continue to be contacted by individuals across the United States who contracted Salmonella Typhimurium from peanut butter and peanut products.  We are actively pursuing these claims against Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), Kellogg Company, and Kanan Enterprises, Inc.  Below is an update on the status of the peanut litigation. Overview of the Peanut Butter Outbreak Officials at [...]

After reviewing preliminary epidemiology reports concerning the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak linked to alfalfa sprouts, Caudill Seed Company has withdrawn from the market all of the alfalfa seeds bearing six digit lot numbers that start with “032.”  All seeds involved in this market withdrawal came from Italy.  The seeds are in 50-pound white bags that are either paper or woven [...]

Public health officials continue to investigate a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella Rissen, a very rare type of Salmonella in the United States. On March 27, 2009, Oregon State Public Health isolated Salmonella Rissen from opened containers of ground white and black pepper collected from a restaurant where one of their case-patients had eaten prior to [...]

The FDA and the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) continue to investigate Salmonella contamination in pistachios and pistachio products.  Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella, Inc., Terra Bella, California (“Setton”), has recalled all lots of roasted pistachios produced from nuts harvested in 2008 and also from the 2007 crop that were processed on the same [...]

A mixer used to make pudding was the source of salmonella that sickened children at the Stone Environmental Camp in Madison, New Hampshire this month.  The camp has since been temporarily closed due over 120 reported illnesses and 15 confirmed salmonella cases from people who ate at the camp. Investigators determined that pudding served at [...]