Simon & Luke To File First Ground Turkey Salmonella Lawsuit Against Cargill Tomorow morning, food safety lawyers at Simon & Luke will file the first salmonella lawsuit stemming from a national outbreak of Salmonella Heidelberg linked to contaminated ground turkey produced by Minneapolis-based Cargill, Inc. The suit comes after Cargill Value Added Meats Retail, a [...]

Five Pennsylvania Residents Infected in Ground Turkey Salmonella Outbreak The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that five individuals in Pennsylvania have confirmed cases of the outbreak strain of Salmonella Heidelberg that has been linked to consumption of Cargill-produced ground turkey. State health officials said that four of those individuals live in Pittsburgh.  [...]

Cargill’s Salmonella-Contaminated Ground Turkey Infects 10 in Michigan Ten Michigan residents have been infected with the strain of Salmonella Heidelberg involved in the Cargill ground turkey outbreak.  Six of those cases were reported in Wayne County.  In addition to the Wayne County cases, Genesee County, Bay County, Berrien County, and Eaton County all reported one [...]

Ground Turkey Salmonella Outbreak Claims 2 Nebraska Victims Nebraska public health officials have released basic information about the state’s two Salmonella Heidelberg cases confirmed to be part of the nationwide outbreak linked to Cargill ground turkey. Both of the infected individuals were women, according to Leah Bucco-White, a spokeswoman for the Nebraska Department of Health [...]

Salmonella Strikes Oregon Baby Girl Oregon state health officials have released information about that state’s single confirmed case in the 26-state Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak, which has been tied to consumption of ground turkey produced by Minnesota-based Cargill, Inc. The victim is a baby girl from Multnomah County.  She became ill in June, and spent 8 [...]

Salmonella from Ground Turkey Outbreak Sickens One Infant, Two Adults in Wisconsin Wisconsin state health department officials confirmed Tuesday that the state has experienced three cases of salmonellosis caused by the strain of Salmonella Heidelberg associated with the ground turkey outbreak. The bacteria infected two adults and one infant, according to Beth Kaplan, spokeswoman for [...]

California Man Dies in Ground Turkey Salmonella Outbreak It was reported late Tuesday that the first death in the ground turkey Salmonella outbreak was a California man. California state health officials said that the victim, a resident of Sacramento County, was one of two confirmed cases from that county. Sacramento County Department of Health and [...]

Ground Turkey Salmonella Outbreak Claims Oklahoma Victim Details about the 77 people affected by the outbreak of Salmonella Heidelberg associated with consumption of ground turkey continue to emerge.  According to an Oklahoma Health Department official, to date the only Oklahoman confirmed to be infected with the strain of Salmonella Heidelberg implicated in the ground turkey [...]

Ohio Reports 10 Confirmed Cases in Ground Turkey Salmonella Outbreak On August 1, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that cultures of ground turkey from four retail locations showed contamination with Salmonella Heidelberg, and that three of those samples had been linked to the same production facility.  Since March, 77 cases of Salmonella across [...]

Ground Turkey Implicated in Nationwide Salmonella Heidelberg Outbreak The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued an update regarding the multistate outbreak of Salmonella Heidelberg that is likely tied to consumption of ground turkey.  This follows a July 29, 2011 public health report issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety [...]