The FDA has published the following warning: Consumers worldwide should not use any ByHeart brand infant formula as all ByHeart products are included in this recall. As we know, as of November 26, 2025, a total of 37 infants with suspected or confirmed infant botulism and confirmed exposure to ByHeart Whole Nutrition infant formula (various […]
Christine Haughney, Sr. Investigations Editor, Zero Point Zero reports on the third episode of ZPZ’s Original Series Food Crimes – “PB & Jail” – The full video premieres Wednesday, September 16. “Stewart Parnell should go to jail and should go to jail for a long time,” says Bill Marler, without question the most influential attorney in the […]
The CDC reports that since the last update on September 9, 2015, 77 new ill people have been reported from Alaska (1), Arizona (6), California (17), Colorado (2), Idaho (6), Indiana (2), Minnesota (8), Montana (3), Nevada (2), New Mexico (4), North Dakota (1), Oklahoma (2), South Carolina (1), Texas (2), Utah (7), Washington (5), […]
The sentencing of the Parnell’s is only a week away and “PB & Jail” will air the coming Wednesday. Below is the introduction and the trailer: For the third installment of ZPZ’s Original Series Food Crimes we’ve set our sights on perhaps the most significant federal case involving foodborne-illness deaths in history. At the center is a […]
Marler Clark filed another complaint today – this one on behalf a a child hospitalized and a man sickened by the outbreak strain of Salmonella Poona. As of September 8, 2015, a total of 341 people infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Poona have been reported from 30 states. The number of ill people reported […]
At Marler Clark it was a busy week taking care of consumers sickened by Salmonella-tainted cucumbers nationwide, sickened with Salmonella at Minnesota Chipotle restaurants and Norovirus at a Simi Valley Chipotle. In between we had the opportunity to weigh in with the press nationwide on some of the new food safety rules. Cucumber recall: 285 […]
A Minneapolis woman hospitalized twice after eating at a Chipotle location in Minneapolis has filed first Salmonella lawsuit after the Minnesota Department of Health linked a salmonella outbreak to the burrito chain. April Beck ate at the Uptown Chipotle, at 2600 Hennepin Avenue S., on Aug. 10, 2015. According to the lawsuit, she developed stomach […]
Imagine this: At 10:00 PM, after yet another story about Donald Trump, a foreign TV network begins airing a video taken inside a facility showing someone treating wash water in a cucumber packing house with an unknown liquid. There is a claim that this was the terrorist act that has so far sickened 341 and […]
Forty-five (45) cases of Salmonella Newport infection have been reported to the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) since Wednesday, Sept. 2. Since many cases of salmonellosis do not seek health care and get tested, the number of ill people that are part of this outbreak is likely to be larger than the identified number of […]
In the spring of 2007, I was asked to testify before the U.S. House of Representative’s Energy and Commerce Committee, which was the committee tasked with modernizing our food safety system. From those hearings, which stretched from 2007 to 2009, came the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). On the Senate side of the hill, work […]
The would be Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today took one of the most significant steps in decades to prevent foodborne illness by finalizing the first two of seven major rules under the bipartisan FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). FSMA Final Rule for Preventive Controls for […]
Since the last update on September 4, 2015, 56 new ill people have been reported from Alaska (1), Arizona (6), California (21), Hawaii (1), Illinois (1), Louisiana (1), Missouri (1), New Mexico (3), Oklahoma (3), Oregon (5), Pennsylvania (2), South Carolina (1), Texas (9), and Washington (1). As of September 8, 2015, a total of […]
Schrader Farms Meat Market, a Romulus, N.Y., establishment, is recalling approximately 20 pounds of ground beef product that may be contaminated with non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The ground beef item was produced on September 2, 2015. The following product is subject […]
Lawsuit filed against San Diego based, Andrew & Williamson Fresh Produce, by Minnesota woman hospitalized with Salmonella Poona linked to consuming tainted cucumbers at a Minnesota Red Lobster. The Federal Courts (at least the electronic version) was working in Minneapolis this AM to file the first lawsuit (Complaint and Cover Sheet) linked to 285 Salmonella […]
Over the last 10 years, I have been averaging about 20 speeches a year on issues surrounding food safety. The talks have taken me to most parts of the United States, as well as Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and China. However, it is always nice to be a bit closer […]
As of September 3, 2015, the CDC reports that 285 people infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Poona have been reported from 27 states. The number of ill people reported from each state is as follows: Alaska (8), Arizona (60), Arkansas (6), California (51), Colorado (14), Idaho (8), Illinois (5), Kansas (1), Louisiana (3), […]