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In just a year and a half, the American meat industry has experienced a whiplash of beef recalls. 40 million pounds of meat tainted with highly toxic E. coli O157:H7 has been publicly recalled, up by a staggering factor of two hundred from the 2006 amount of only 181,900 pounds. "This is beyond the 'wheels coming off' of the meat supply system," said food borne illness attorney William Marler. "It's the entire train in a tangled heap. And the people caught in the train wreck are you and me...
The following is a statement from William D. Marler, Esq.: There is presently an outbreak of a Salmonella strain known as Saintpaul that has made more than 1,250 people sick in forty-three states, put 228 in hospitals, and contributed to the deaths of two elderly men. It is the largest fresh produce outbreak in two decades. The source of the outbreak remains, in part, a mystery. A two-month-long federal investigation has been able to tell us only that jalapeno peppers (and possibly...
By Jessica Lander-Heffner, Middletown Journal, Ohio Jun. 24--MIDDLETOWN -- Locally grown tomatoes may not be part of the recent salmonella poisoning scare that sickened more than 500 people nationwide, but that doesn't mean residents are completely safe. Most large Ohio tomatoes are not ready to eat this time of year unless they were grown in a hot house, said Brian Theobald, co-owner of Barn-N-Bunk Farm Market in Trenton. As a result, many markets are importing tomatoes from other...
