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 [...]

Salmonella Rissen Outbreak in Five Western States Sickens 87 Between September 2008 and May 2009, an outbreak of Salmonella Rissen in five western states sickened 87 victims. Each of these illnesses were subsequently linked by epidemiological and laboratory data to the consumption of “Uncle Chen” and “Lian How” brand ground white pepper produced by U.F. [...]

As more details continue to pour in about the nationwide Salmonella Montevideo outbreak that has sickened 184 in 38 states, it seems that health investigators are now focused on the key question:  Is the source of salmonella the pepper coating on the Daniele salami or the salami itself? My guess – the pepper coating. Why [...]

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 [...]

Simon & Luke continues to prosecute cases from the recent West Coast outbreak of rare Salmonella Rissen which has expanded to 5 states.  The current illness count is 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, [...]

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 [...]