J. B. Meats, is recalling approximately 72,800 pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.
The products subject to recall are 5 and 10 pound clear packages of ground beef and ground beef patties in various size packages that were processed on and can be identified by the dates August 18
At least 35 players and several coaches from the Illinois State football team became ill with apparent food poisoning. The illnesses caused many of the players to miss practice. In addition, it seems that whatever caused the players to become ill has spread to other individuals on Illinois State’s campus.
According to a report
Maybe it was Bill Marler’s $500,000 study on non-O157 STECs (finding non-O157 STEC contamination of retail ground beef in about 1% of samples), or maybe it was his petition to USDA-FSIS to finally call a spade a spade and declare that the “big six” non-O157 STECs are “adulterants.” Whatever the case, the case for outlawing things in our
Today, the Marler Clark law firm received dozens of phone calls and email submissions inquiring about the class action lawsuit recently filed on Wednesday, August 17, 2011, against a Fayetteville, North Carolina Olive Garden. The lawsuit came after Cumberland County health officials discovered that an Olive Garden food service worker had tested positive for hepatitis
Atlanta Oriental Food Wholesale Company of Atlanta, GA, is recalling containers of Cut Napa Kimchi after routine testing by the company revealed the presence of Listeria monocytogenes.
The affected product was sold in a 1 gallon, clear plastic package and a 5 gallon bucket marked with lot # 56090959 on the side of the
Twenty years is a long time for a law firm to focus exclusively on litigating just food cases, but the food industry seems hell-bent on keeping Marler Clark in business. And with two more late-summer E. coli ground beef outbreaks to contend with (McNees Meats in Michigan, and JB Meats in Ohio)
Michigan now counts 9 people from Lapeer, Genesee, Isabella, and Sanilac counties as victims of the ground beef E. coli O157:NM outbreak associated with beef from McNees Meats and Wholesale LLC. The Michigan Departments of Community Health (MDCH) and Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) have issued a public health alert concerning the outbreak. Among the
The CDC today issued its latest update on the outbreak of antibiotic resistant Salmonella Heidelberg linked to Cargill turkey products.
The CDC provided the breakdown of the now 111 reported cases, including one death, in 31 states between February 27 and August 9, 2011. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows:
A small cluster of two illnesses from the Cincinnati, Ohio area have prompted JB Meats, also from Cincinnati, to recall 72,800 pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated by E. coli O157:H7. According to press accounts, the products subject to recall are 5 and 10 pound clear packages of ground beef and ground beef patties
Today a class action lawsuit was filed in Cumberland County on behalf of those individuals who were required to receive a Hepatitis A after potentially being exposed to the virus while dining at a Fayetteville, North Carolina Olive Garden restaurant.
The Hepatitis A scare began when Cumberland County Health Department officials announced that anyone who
