The salmonella lawyers at Simon & Luke continue to prosecute cases from the West Coast outbreak of rare Salmonella Rissen which sickened citizens in 5 states.  The current illness count has now risen to 90, and is distributed as follows:  California (68), Nevada (10), Oregon (8), Washington (3), and Idaho (1).   Illness onsets range from [...]

Health officials have confirmed that the recent West Coast outbreak of rare Salmonella Rissen has now expanded to 5 states.  The current illness count has also risen to 79, and is distributed as follows:  California (63), Nevada (10), Oregon (4), Washington (1), and Idaho (1).   Illness onsets range from December 9, 2008 to April 29, 2009. [...]

The recent Salmonella Rissen outbreak due to recalled Uncle Chen’s and Lian How spices that sickened over 60 people in Washington, California, Oregon, and Nevada has caused several of our clients to ask:  “How rare is Salmonella Rissen?  To fully answer that question, some background is needed. Every year, over 40,000 people culture positive for one of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

        Union International Food Co. is further expanding the recall of Lian How brand and Uncle Chen brand retail and institutional products.  The recall now includes various size packages of all Uncle Chen and Lian How sauces, oils, and oil blends because the products may be contaminated with salmonella.  Uncle Chen and Lian How [...]

Union International Food Co. (UIFC) is further expanding the recall of Lian How brand and Uncle Chen brand dry spices to include ALL types of dry spice products in 15-pound and smaller containers (boxes, plastic bags & wide mouth jars) and 30-pound boxes and smaller packages of crushed chili because of salmonella contamination. The following additional [...]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting the public to a voluntary recall by Union International Food Company (Union City, Calif.) of the company’s dry spice products.  The recall is based on an investigation of an ongoing foodborne illness outbreak of Salmonella Rissen in the states of California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington.  The company’s [...]

Union International Food Co. of Union City, CA has recalled 15-pound and smaller size packages of the Lian How brand spices and Uncle Chen brand white pepper & black pepper (whole and ground) in 5oz. retail containers, because they are potentially contaminated with Salmonella Rissen. Officials investigating a multi-state Salmonella outbreak isolated Salmonella from an [...]