foodpoisoning attorney

The Crowne Plaza Staphylococcus Aureus outbreak occurred on July 17, 2011, during a Portland-based conference attended by approximately 2,400 county commissioners from across the country. Many were sickened by the harmful staph bacteria, which investigating health authorities conclusively determined was the food item that sickened dozens of people.

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  • All “affected patients”

More than two dozen people were treated in area hospitals after what appears to be a mass foodpoisoning event at the Zappos plant in Shepherdsville, Kentucky.  After the ambulances left the scene, Bullitt County health officials arrived to investigate, and are trying to figure out whether the outbreak was caused by contaminated food–and if so

United Natural Foods, Inc. is recalling selected types of Gentes Foods Gordita Black Bean Tortillas, because they have the potential to be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum, a bacterium which can cause life-threatening illness or death. Consumers are warned not to use the product even if it does not look or smell spoiled.

Botulism, a potentially

Salmonella and other foodpoisoning outbreaks everywhere right now.  Cantaloupes and listeria, produce and E. coli O157:H7, chicken livers and Salmonella, Salmonella and pine nuts.  It has been a studied question for years now whether produce items (like lettuce, spinach, and other leafy greens) actually uptake the bacteria through the root system

dhhs_divisionLogo.jpgState investigators are still working to uncover the specific source of an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak comprising 30 illnesses that appears linked to the 2011 North Carolina State Fair.  7 years prior, an even larger outbreak, over 100 sick, was tied to a petting zoo at the 2004 Fair.    Marler Clark client, Jennifer Chauvin, watched her two boys fall

The Washington State Department of Health reports that 22 people have recently been sickened by Vibrio Parahaemolyticus bacteria after eating raw oysters.  18 vibriosis illnesses have been linked to commercial operations and four illnesses to recreational harvesting in Puget Sound and on the Washington coast.

Cooking shellfish thoroughly will prevent vibriosis illness and is always a