This morning I am in West Union, Iowa to inspect Hillandale Farms – one of the two Iowa egg farms (the other is Wright County Egg) linked to contaminated eggs that have sickened over 1600 people nationwide since May.  I’ll be taking a photographer and videographer into the plant to document the conditions that have [...]

I’ve been quite busy lately working on the salmonella egg outbreak that has sickened over 1600 nationwide.   The contaminated eggs have been linked to two Iowa egg farms – Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms. In between television interviews, fielding hundreds of calls from salmonella victims, and filing lawsuits, I took my 9-year old daughter, [...]

Food Safety Attorney to Inspect Egg Farms National food safety attorney Ron Simon of Houston-based Simon & Luke will inspect the Hillandale Egg Farm in Union City, Iowa on Thursday, September 30.  Hillandale Farms is one of two Iowa egg farms at the center of a Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak linked to contaminated eggs that has [...]

The CDC has issued its final report on the Salmonella Chester outbreak linked to Marie Callender’s frozen entrees that sickened 44 people in 18 states natiowide.  Below are the details. As of August 27, 2010, a total of 44 individuals infected with a matching strain of Salmonella Chester were reported from 18 states since April [...]

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has just released new outbreak figures for salmonella egg outbreak. The CDC has estimated that between May 1 and September 14, 2010, 1608 people across the country contracted an identical strain of Salmonella Enteritidis (coded JEGX01.0004).  This salmonella strain has been traced back to eggs produced at two Iowa egg [...]

Tomorrow, Carol Lobato and I will travel to Washington, D.C. to appear before Bart Stupak, Henry Waxman, and the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee.  That committee is investigating the salmonella outbreak linked to contaminated eggs produced at two Iowa egg farms – Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms. Carol is one of 1500 victims nationwide that [...]

Tomorrow, client Carl Lobato and I will fly to Washington, D.C. to appear before Bart Stupak, Henry Waxman, and the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee.  That committee is investigating the salmonella outbreak linked to contaminated eggs produced at two Iowa egg farms – Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms. Carol is one of 1500 victims [...]

The City of Houston Health Department today confirmed that 33 individuals in the Houston area have tested positive for the identical strain of Salmonella Enteritidis linked to contaminated eggs produced by two Iowa egg farms – Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms. The illness onset dates range from April 2, 2010 to August 3, 2010.  [...]

Congressional investigators have just announced that lab results taken from Wright County Egg farm in Iowa show over 400 cases of positive salmonella contamination.  These tests were taken in the two years immediately prior to the massive salmonella outbreak linked to Wright CountyEgg and Hillandale Farms that has sickened 1500 nationwide. In a letter to its owner, Jack DeCoster, leaders of [...]

Next week, one of my clients – Carol Lobato of Littleton, Colorado – and I will travel to Washington, D.C. to appear before Bart Stupak, Henry Waxman, and the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee.  That committee is investigating the salmonella outbreak linked to contaminated eggs produced at two Iowa egg farms – Wright County Egg [...]