CDC Reports Investigative Techniques Used to Isolate Source of Mexican-Style Fast Food Salmonella Enteritidis Outbreak  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a report detailing the processes involved in isolating the source of the recent (October 2011-January 2012) outbreak of Salmonella strain Enteritidis. The process involved cooperation between agencies at the federal, [...]

Mexican-Style Fast Food Linked to Salmonella Enteritidis Outbreak The CDC recently reported that 68 individuals in 10 states have been infected with Salmonella Enteritidis linked to the consumption of food from an as yet unnamed Mexican-style fast food restaurant chain, which the agency is calling “Restaurant Chain A.” The largest number of outbreak cases were [...]

Simon & Luke Collects Settlements for 47 Salmonella Victims National food safety firm Simon & Luke of Houston, Texas today announced that the firm has reached settlements on behalf of 47 victims of the nationwide Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak linked to contaminated eggs in 2010.  The eggs were manufactured by Wright County Egg of Galt, Iowa [...]

Wegmans Pine Nut Salmonella Outbreak Claims 42 Victims in 5 States The US Centers for Disease Control is working with public health and agriculture officials in New York and other states and the FDA to investigate a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis infections linked to Turkish pine nuts purchased from bulk bins at Wegmans grocery [...]

42 Salmonella Cases: Arizona, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), working in tandem with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and state and local health officials in New York and other states, is investigating a major multistate outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis. The infections have [...]

FDA Warns Consumers to not eat Evergreen Produce Sprouts Donn Moyer of the Washington State Department of Health’s (WSHD) Communications Office has followed the FDA in issuing a press release warning people not to eat alfalfa sprouts or spicy sprouts labeled “Evergreen Produce” or “Evergreen Produce, Inc.”  Researchers have traced several Salmonella Enteritidis infections to consumption of [...]

Ohio Fresh Eggs Receives Stern Warning Letter from the FDA In November and December, 2010, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reviewed the records of Ohio Fresh Eggs, and found that 13 FDA environmental samples from four of its egg layer sites were confirmed positive for Salmonella Enteritidis (SE). The FDA propounded, in WARNING LETTER [...]

Reno, Nevada Firkin & Wolf Restaurant linked to Salmonella Egg Outbreak On July 23, 2010, the staff of the Communicable Disease Program (CDP) of the Washoe County Health Department began investigating a local salmonella outbreak.  The CDP identified four cases of Salmonella Enteritidis withpositive results dated between July 19-22, 2010.  After a thorough investigation, utilizing intensive questionnaires, the [...]

The salmonella lawyers at the Houston-based food safety firm Simon & Luke continue to prosecute cases linked to last year’s Salmonella Enteritidis egg outbreak that sickened almost 2000 people nationwide thus far – making it the largest Salmonella outbreak in United States history.  If you were sickened with Salmonella after eating eggs, it is not [...]

I spent yesterday in Chicago arbitrating salmonella claims on behalf of 27 Simon & Luke clients.  The arbitration was defended by super lawyer Dean Panos of Jenner & Block, who represented Kellogg Company, and ACE Insurance Company.  The claims arose out of the 2008-2009 nationwide salmonella outbreak linked to contaminated peanut butter.   We had [...]