Posts tagged food poisoning

• Food Poisoning At Carl's Jr.

  IB Contributor | January 18, 2007 12:51 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  This is an email inquiry that I received about food poisoning followed by my answer:In the late evening of 10/18/06 my son Nicholas ate a hamburger at a Carl's Jr. in Orange County, California and within a few hours he became ill with severe abdominal cramps,vomiting, diarrhea, nausea and fever throughout the night. In the morning we took him to his Doctor who after a short examination asked...

• Taco Bell Sued Over Food-borne Illness

  IB Contributor | February 14, 2007 5:05 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Lawsuits allege E.Coli caused food poisoning and hospitalization. The mother of a teenager, who fell sick after eating food from a Taco Bell restaurant three months ago, filed a lawsuit Monday in New York, according to an Associated Press news report.The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan's State Supreme Court, alleges that the E.Coli bacteria in the food sickened 16-year-old James Robinson and caused...

• Olive Recall Due to Food Poisoning Threat

  Shannon Weidemann | March 11, 2007 5:29 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Olives sold in Florida, Georgia, and New York were recalled due to potential contamination with clostridium botulinum. The bacteria can cause food poisoning. Flora Foods, of Pompano Beach, has recalled its 25 ounce jars of "Cerignola Olives", because they could be contaminated with clostridium botulinum, which can cause potentially fatal form of food poisoning.The recalled olives were...

• Salmonella Danger from Dry Pet Food

  David Rowell | November 12, 2008 11:10 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that, despite reports and recalls in 2007, eight new cases of Salmonella poisoning in humans from contaminated pet food were...

• Hepatitis A Outbreak Linked to San Diego Area Chipotle

  Walton Barber, LLP | May 01, 2008 1:58 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The total number cases of hepatitis A contracted at a Chipotle restaurant in La Mesa has grown to 18. Authorities from the San Diego County Health and Human Services Department is advising any...

• School Cafeterias, Are They Safe

  IB Contributor | January 31, 2007 11:33 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  11,000 Food-borne Illnesses Associated With Schools Some school districts and governments are not inspecting school cafeterias frequently enough or are using out-of-date food safety standards, according to a report by the Center for Science in the Public Interest released Tuesday. According to this report, conditions in America's school cafeterias could trigger potentially disastrous outbreaks...

• Would a rubber chicken have been safer? Federal salmonella standards finally get tighter

  Claude Wyle | May 13, 2010 3:00 PM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  I know I am a San Francisco food safety attorney, so maybe I am more sensitive to dangerous foods and other products than the average guy, but does it seem strange that USDA is only now changing...

• Tainted Meat Prompts Recall

  Claude Wyle | September 30, 2007 7:11 PM | 0 CommentsOakland, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Topps Meat Co. is under Federal investigation after 23 people in eight states suffered serious illness after eating E.coli-laden hamburgers. Most people recover from E. coli poisoning within a few days. However, E. coli poisoning can cause serious injuries to the very young, the very old, or to people with weakened immune systems. People aren't the only victims here. Topps destroyed...

• Rats Run Wild At NY Taco Bell / Pizza Hut

  IB Contributor | February 27, 2007 12:29 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  As seen on TV.The national hysteria over unsanitary conditions in our country's restaurants and markets continued this week when television stations captured footage of shrieking onlookers as they saw numerous rats scurrying around a closed Taco Bell/Pizza Hut restaurant in Greenwich Village Friday morning.The restaurant, near New York University has been cited as recently as two months ago for...

• FDA to Update Food Safety Rules

  David Rowell | November 14, 2008 4:00 PM | 1 CommentFresno, CA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Dismayed consumers saw story after story break in 2008 about food safety and the FDA's struggle to cope with domestic and foreign food contaminants: Salmonella, Listeria, Clostridium and other...