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 [...]

The United States sees dramatic increase in Food Borne Illnesses The U.S. saw a dramatic increase in the number of food poisoning cases last year, and the main culprit was salmonella. Food borne illness affects nearly “50 million people each year . . . about one in six Americans,” CDC director Dr. Thomas R. Frieden [...]

National food safety firm Simon & Luke continues to prosecute claims linked to last year’s Salmonella Enteritidis egg outbreak that sickened almost 2000 people nationwide – making it the largest Salmonella outbreak in United States history. If you were sickened with Salmonella after eating eggs, it is not to late to get help and file [...]

Second Salmonella-Related Death as the Number of Illness Rises to 66 Earlier today, officials from the Rhode Island Department of Health confirmed that a man in his 90′s was the second salmonella-associated death in the last several weeks resulting from a Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak linked to pastries made at DeFusco’s Bakery in Johnston and shipped [...]

DeFusco’s Salmonella Outbreak Takes Another Deadly Turn Today, the Rhode Island Department of Health announced that a second victim has died after consuming zeppoles from DeFusco’s bakery.  So far, 66 people have fallen ill with Salmonella Heidelberg after consuming the contaminated zeppoles, including the two deaths.  Of those, 28 have been hospitalized. The unidentified victim, [...]

DeFusco’s Rhode Island Salmonella Outbreak Victim Count Climbs – Now 64 and 1 Death An outbreak of 63 Salmonella Heidelberg cases in Rhode Island, and a single case in neighboring Massachusetts, led to a massive effort by Rhode Island health officials to use trace-back methodology to find the source.  Interviews and detailed questionnaires finally linked [...]

Simon & Luke Prosecuting Salmonella Claims Against Del Monte Simon & Luke has filed 8 Salmonella claims against Del Monte Foods. The claims are past of a Salmonella Hvittingfoss outbreak linked to contaminated Del Monte tomatoes served at Subway restaurants throughout Illinois last year. Reports published by the Illinois Department of Health indicate that the [...]

Del Monte Cantaloupes Sicken 12 People in 4 States The CDC has now stepped in to assist in the investigation of a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Panama infections linked to consumption of Del Monte cantaloupes produced in Guatemala. So far, 12 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Panama have been reported from Oregon (5 [...]

Del Monte Recalls Cantaloupes from Guatemala Major U.S. food producer Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A., Inc. of Coral Gables, Florida has announced a recall of nearly 5,000 cartons of cantaloupes which may be contaminated with Salmonella Panama.  Each carton contains 4 plastic mesh sleeves with 3 cantaloupes per sleeve. The cantaloupes were available for sale [...]

Simon & Luke Files first Salmonella Claims Against Luxe Burger Bar Following an outbreak of Salmonella Newport among patrons who ate at Luxe Burger Bar in Providence, Rhode Island from May 4 to May 9, 2010, food safety attorney Ron Simon of Simon & Luke was the first to file claims on behalf of injured [...]