Simon & Luke files E. coli Lawsuit in California The E. coli lawyers at Simon & Luke have filed an E. coli lawsuit against JBS Swift Beef Company (“JBS Swift”). The suit was filed on behalf of a 44 year old Stacey Barenchi, a California resident who contracted E. coli O157:H7 after consuming contaminated ground [...]

Mystery Surrounds the E. coli Outbreak in Canada: Investigation Ongoing Reports coming from the Montreal Gazette have confirmed prior doubts voiced about the origin of the deadly Canadian outbreak of E. coli O157:H7.  A Quebecer who died from complications related to E. coli illness is reported to have not eaten the allegedly tainted walnuts that [...]

Canadian Food Inspection Agency Expands Walnut Warnings The public warning issued on April 8, 2011 has been expanded to include additional retailers who repackaged and sold raw shelled walnuts and products containing walnuts distributed by Amira Enterprises Inc. of Montreal, Quebec.   This has led to recalls across Canada—including the specifically names establishments below: Asia Food [...]

Canadian Walnut Recall Spreads across the Nation Amira Enterprises, a fruit and nut distribution company based in Montreal, has expanded a current recall for walnuts—this time adding two Vancouver grocery stores that may have received E. coli contaminated walnuts. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has now posted to its web site a recall of walnut [...]

E. coli Outbreak Impacting Canadians Who have Eaten Walnuts This week, Canadian Health officials announced a deadly E. coli O157:H7 outbreak.  Nathalie Lévesque, a provincial Health Department official, confirmed that a Quebecer, who was already in a weakened state with significant underlying medical conditions, has died from E. coli illness. Another two individuals have developed [...]

E. coli Outbreak in Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick Canadian Health officials have announced an E. coli outbreak linked to contaminated walnuts.  According to Canada’s public health agency, at least one person in Quebec has died as a result of eating E. coli contaminated walnuts.  Although the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux would [...]

Valley Meat Company of Modesto, California has recalled one million pounds of frozen ground beef patties and bulk ground beef products due to contamination with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. FSIS became aware of the problem on July 15 when the agency was notified [...]

Rocky Mountain Natural Meats, a Henderson, Colo. establishment, has recalled 66,000 pounds of ground and tenderized steak bison products that have been linked to an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 in Colorado and New York. Officials became aware of the problem during the course of an on-going investigation into a cluster of E. coli O157:H7 [...]

Well, it must be summertime – the E. Coli hamburger recalls have begun.  In the last 24 hours, 2 new recalls were announced by the food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS): Recall 1:  South Gate Meat Co. South Gate Meat Co., a South Gate, Calif., establishment, is recalling approximately 35,000 pounds of ground beef products that [...]

Three More Children Sickened by Hartmann’s Raw Milk Three more children, one of them an infant, have been sickened by E. coli O157:H7 linked to raw milk from Hartmann Dairy Farms in Gibbon, Minnesota.  The new cases bring the total number of victims to 8, mostly in Hennepin County.  The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) [...]