FDA confirms salmonella in Kellogg peanut butter snack

January 20, 2009

The Food and Drug Administration said Monday that salmonella was found in a package of peanut butter sandwich crackers made by Kellogg (K).

 

Kellogg (K) said Monday that a previously recalled peanut butter-sandwich cracker tested positive for salmonella as a rapidly growing national recall widened to include more companies’ peanut snacks because of potential contamination.

 

Kellogg’s Austin Quality Foods Toasty Crackers with Peanut Butter is the first product sold to consumers that’s known to have tested positive for the salmonella strain initially linked only to peanut butter sold to institutions, such as nursing homes.

 

The outbreak has led to 474 reported illnesses and may have caused six deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. For every reported illness, dozens go unreported.

 

Read Article: USA Today

 

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Claiming juror misconduct, Ford seeks to overturn settlement it agreed to pay

Right out of a Hollywood movie, the dramatic jury note arrived in the courtroom on the third day of deliberations, changing everything for Ford Motor Co. and its legal opponent, a Texas woman paralyzed in a 2002 rollover accident.

 

“What,” the jury asked, “is the maximum amount that can be awarded?”

Fearing the jury was about to give the Brownsville woman a much larger award, Ford quickly settled the lawsuit for $3 million — about double what the carmaker discussed paying in earlier settlement talks, company lawyers said. So imagine Ford’s surprise upon learning that jurors had been leaning 11-1 in favor of the car company.

 

What’s more, the lone holdout was presiding juror Cynthia Cortez, who wrote the jury note on her own and sent it to the judge over the objection of several other jurors.

Feeling duped, Ford’s lawyers asked the Brownsville court to void the $3 million settlement as fraudulently obtained. Suspecting juror misconduct, they also asked permission to force Cortez to answer questions under oath.

 

Read Article: Austen American Statesman

 

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Families File Suit in Chinese Tainted Milk Scandal

A group of lawyers said Tuesday that it had filed a lawsuit against 22 dairy companies to seek compensation for the deaths or illnesses of hundreds of children who drank milk products tainted with a toxic chemical. The filing is a rare instance in which Chinese lawyers are proceeding with a class-action product liability case.

 

The lawsuit was filed last Friday with the Supreme People’s Court in Beijing on behalf of the families of 213 children, said Lin Zheng, an administrator for a group of lawyers who have volunteered to represent the victims. The lawsuit says the children were victims of one of the biggest food safety crises to hit China in recent years — they drank milk tainted with melamine, a toxic chemical illegally added to dairy products to give the false appearance of high protein counts. Melamine can lead to kidney problems.

 

Read Article: New York Times

 

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National Pork Producers Council sues EPA over new livestock emissions rule

The National Pork Producers Council said Monday it is suing to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency’s requirement that livestock farms inform communities about estimated emissions.

The rule is scheduled to take effect Tuesday. It requires livestock producers to call state and local emergency response authorities to inform them of estimated emissions and to notify them in writing.

Farms that fail to comply face penalties of up to $25,000 per day.

The council, based in Urbandale, Iowa, says in the lawsuit that livestock operations should be exempt and that the EPA delayed information on the rule and didn’t develop a proper system for the operations to comply. It asks a court to prevent enforcement of the rule until the EPA develops a proper compliance system.

 

Read Article: Newsday

 

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Suit: Man died after being jailed for parking tickets and missing chemo

Unpaid parking tickets proved fatal for a terminally ill Queens man who died after callous cops locked him up for four days for a minor traffic offense, a lawsuit claims.

 

Glenn Seldon, 50, was battling advanced colon cancer in 2007 but still hoped his chemotherapy regimen would make him well enough to go on a family vacation being planned for Hawaii. Then, on May 11, 2007, he was arrested for driving with a license that had been suspended for unpaid parking tickets.

 

According to a lawsuit filed in Brooklyn Federal Court, cops disregarded his weakened condition and ignored his need for daily medication to control an infection and blood clots.

 

Read Article: New York Daily News

 

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