Foodborne Illness Claims - Blog Entries
Foodborne illness caused by norovirus outbreak causes Dublin hotel to cancel Christmas events
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
The Regency Hotel in Drumcondra has cancelled a number of Christmas parties and temporarily shut down its catering facilities after a suspected outbreak of norovirus on its premises. Somewhere between 50 and 100 people who dined at the hotel last week complained of falling ill afterwards. Norovirus (also referred to as “Norwalk [...]
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Airliner facing fatal foodborne illness litigation after passenger dies from food poisoning
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
American Airlines is being sued by the family of a man who is alleged to have sustained a fatal bout of food poisoning after consuming an inflight meal. Seventy-three-year-old Othon Cortes was a passenger on a Barcelona to New York flight on 18 May when he consumed a chicken meal which is [...]
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Two infant fatalities in Wales as a result of E. coli
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Five cases of ESBL-producing E. coli have been reported in South Wales. Of these, two involved babies, with the infection proving fatal in both infant cases. One of the infants, a premature-born baby girl is confirmed to have contracted the infection at the neo-natal unit of the Singleton Hospital in Swansea. The [...]
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Loyd Grossman Korma sauce recalled due to botulism fears
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has announced that Premier Foods is recalling Loyd Grossman Korma Sauce (350g jars with a batch code of 1218R and a best-before-date of February 2013) as a precaution following the detection of Clostridium botulinum toxin in one jar forming part of the batch. The implicated sauce [...]
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STRAIN OF E. COLI IDENTIFIED IN LIMERICK CRECHE IS UNUSUAL
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
No more than 24 hours after it was revealed that a Limerick crèche was forced to close due to an outbreak of E. coli, the BBC has reported that a nursery in Wales was closed as a precaution last Thursday after it too fell foul of the bacteria. The testing that has [...]
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LIMERICK CRECHE FORCED TO CLOSE DUE TO E. COLI O26 OUTBREAK
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
A crèche in Limerick has been asked to close by the HSE as a result of an outbreak of Verocytotoxigenic E. coli O26. The reason for the closure is to enable all staff and children attending the crèche to be screened. RTE has reported that fewer than ten children have been infected, [...]
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FRENCH FOOD COPS INVESTIGATE BURGER MAKER IMPLICATED IN E. COLI OUTBREAK
Saturday, October 15th, 2011
Recent dramatic developments in France have their origins in an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 which occurred in June of this year when eight children living in and around the city of Lille were hospitalized with haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) after consuming contaminated hamburgers. The children were between 18 months and 8 [...]
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IMPLICATION OF FRESH PRODUCE IN MULTIPLE LISTERIA OUTBREAKS A POTENTIALLY WORRYING DEVELOPMENT
Sunday, October 9th, 2011
Listeria monocytogenes is no stranger to food safety professionals. It is one of the more common pathogens that can cause serious food poisoning in consumers. The fact that it is not usually heat resistant means that, apart from the risk of contaminating other food which it is in contact with, any products [...]
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LAW SUITS RELATING TO JENSEN FARMS LISTERIA OUTBREAK BEGIN TO EMERGE
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
Anyone who keeps an eye on topical food safety issues will be aware that the past few weeks have seen the blogosphere ablaze with reports of a spate of foodborne illness of horrific proportions playing itself out in the US. The Jensen Farms Cantaloupe Listeria outbreak has straddled the United States from [...]
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EFFECTIVE REGULATION OF RAW MILK THE PRIDE AND JOY OF WASHINGTON
Saturday, September 24th, 2011
As artisan producers in this country anxiously await the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food’s final word on whether or not the sale of raw milk will be banned in the Republic of Ireland, the recent case involving the Pride & Joy Creamery based in Granger, Yakima County, Washington, United States provides [...]
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