Hannaford Ground Beef Salmonella Outbreak Expands to 19 Victims The United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) continue to investigate a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium infections linked to eating ground beef purchased from Hannaford Supermarkets. The outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium is [...]

Hannaford Salmonella Victims in New Hampshire Represented by Simon & Luke National food safety law firm Simon & Luke has been retained by 3 victims of the recent Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak linked to ground beef from Hannaford stores in the northeastern United States. The victims are Bob and Nancy Dugan, and their son Neal, who [...]

Chicken Liver Salmonella Outbreak Sickens 179 in 6 States The CDC is working with public health officials in several states to investigate a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Heidelberg infections linked to a kosher chicken liver product labeled as “kosher broiled chicken livers,” which is not ready-to-eat and requires further cooking before eating. Investigators are using DNA “fingerprints” [...]

Simon Interviewed About Salmonella Egg Outbreak Yesterday I was interviewed by the Associated Press about the Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak linked tocontamimnated eggs produced by Quality Egg, L.L.C. d/b/a Wright County Egg – a company owned by Jack DeCoster.  The outbreak sickened over 2000 people across the United States. Simon & Luke represents the majority of all [...]

CDC Investigating Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Chicken Livers The US Centers for Disease Control is working with health officials to investigate a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Heidelberg infections linked to a kosher chicken liver product labeled as “kosher broiled chicken livers”. The chicken livers were sold by Alle Processing Corporation of Maspeth, N.Y., also doing [...]

Schreiber Chicken Livers Linked to 169 Illnesses A New York food processor has recalled broiled chicken liver products that have been linked to at least 169 Salmonella Heidelberg infections in five states, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and state health departments.  The recall, according to the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service [...]

Over 110 Sickened by Salmonella Linked to Kosher Chicken Liver from MealMart The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYCDHMH) said today that it has identified 56 Salmonella infections in the city linked to the company’s MealMart brand kosher broiled chicken livers.  At least 12 of the New York residents have been [...]

Chicken Liver Products Linked to Salmonella Outbreak The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Tuesday that Schreiber Processing Corporation, a Maspeth, N.Y. establishment, is recalling an unspecified amount of broiled chicken liver products that are linked to a number of Salmonellosis illnesses in New Jersey and New York.  The broiled chicken livers, which [...]

Cantaloupes Claim 29 Deaths and 139 Total Illnesses in 28 States The death toll continues to rise in the multistate Listeria monocytogenes outbreak linked to contaminated cantaloupes produced by Jensen Farms of Holly, Colorado.  The cantaloupes were distributed by Frontera Produce of Edinburg, Texas As of November 1, 2011, a total of 139 persons infected [...]

Cantaloupe Listeria – 75 Ill, 13 Dead in TX, OK, NM, CO As the total number of infected rises to 116 in the four outbreak-associated strains of Listeria monocytogenes, the four-state region including Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado has been hit hardest.  Oklahoma, also a producer of cantaloupe, has reported 11 cases and 1 fatality; Texas [...]