Peanut butter. Melons. Lettuce. Seemingly harmless foods that, when contaminated with e. coli bacteria, have caused mass food recalls, hospitalizations, and even deaths. About 48 million Americans get sick each year from contaminated food. 128,000 are hospitalized. 3,000 die! Congress … Continue reading
How’s this for taking care of our kids? McDonald’s refuses to put a dubious meat by product into its burgers, but the government orders 7 million pounds of “Pink Slime” for its school lunch program. The pink slime is a … Continue reading
Sources of Salmonella Poisoning The CDC has just published a report on food safety, zooming in on Salmonella. In the past 15 years, the government and food industry have NOT been able to reduce the number of incidents of poisoning … Continue reading
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Three months after scores of young women across the country began to fall ill with a particularly nasty strain of e-coli, Federal health officials manged to piece together the puzzle and discover that the … Continue reading
It seems like every week there’s another product recall involving melamine. In the last week, 2 more recalls have been issued: Wonderfarm brand of biscuits G&J Gourmet Market cocoa products Bill Marler is a personal injury and products liability attorney litigating … Continue reading
A quick reminder from the Center for Disease Control (CDC): An estimated 76 million cases of foodborne disease occur each year in the United States. CDC estimates that there are 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths related to foodborne diseases each … Continue reading