Simon & Luke Prosecuting Tainted Turkey Claims Houston-based food safety law firm Simon & Luke has filed more claims against Cargill on behalf of victims who contracted Salmonella Heidelberg after consuming ground turkey manufactured by the company.  The claims were filed on behalf of residents of Michigan, South Dakota, Arizona, and Illinois.  In August, the [...]

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 [...]

Simon & Luke files Salmonella Egg Lawsuit Last week, the salmonella lawyers at Simon & Luke filed another salmonella lawsuit against Wright County Egg.  Tainted eggs produced by Wright County Egg were identified in 2010 as the source of the largest salmonella outbreak in US history. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Montanna Arterson, [...]

Tainted Turkey Now Claims 129 Victims in 34 States The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has just upped its victim count for the Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak linked to tainted Cargill ground turkey. Since February 27, 2001, a total of 129 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Heidelberg have been reported from in 34 [...]

Cargill Recalls More Tainted Turkey – Salmonella is Again the Culprit The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today that ground turkey from Cargill, which only just recently began limited production of some ground turkey products, has again tested positive for a drug-resistant strain of Salmonella Heidelberg.  According to FSIS, [...]

Simon & Luke Collects Settlements on Behalf of 39 Salmonella Rissen Outbreak Victims National food safety law firm Simon & Luke and officials from U.F. Union International Food, Inc. and Harris Freeman & Co., Inc. have reached a settlement on behalf of 39 victims of a Salmonella Rissen outbreak linked to ground white pepper. The [...]

Tainted Cargill Turkey Outbreak Claims 119 Victims The CDC has reported that 119 individuals in 32 states have been infected with Salmonella Heidelberg linked to the consumption of ground turkey produced by a single Cargill, Inc. subsidiary, according to the most recent CDC outbreak update. The largest number of outbreak cases were reported in Texas, [...]

Texas Hit by Turkey and Papaya Recalls Texans have been besieged by two outbreaks of contaminated product-related foodborne illness in the past two weeks.  The state has a large number of confirmed cases in two large and ongoing nationwide Salmonella outbreaks, one tied to consumption of papaya contaminated with Salmonella Agona, and the other associated [...]

Troutdale Infant Identified as First Oregon Illness Linked to Tainted Turkey On Thursday, Lynne Terry of the Oregonian identified a Troutdale infant, pictured here, as the first confirmed salmonella case in Oregon linked to contaminated turkey produced by Cargill. Cargill on Wednesday issued a recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey products due to [...]

Updated Information on Salmonella Ground Turkey Outbreak On August 4, 2011, the CDC issued another update regarding the multistate outbreak of Salmonella Heidelberg associated with consumption of contaminated ground turkey. The update follows a Wednesday recall by Cargill Value Added Meats Retail of approximately 36 million pounds of fresh and frozen ground turkey products. Nationwide, [...]