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MDL Court in Peanut Butter Litigation Grants Multiple Summary Judgments For Defense

By Sean Wajert on October 18, 2010
Posted in Articles, Consumer Products, Food and Beverage, Toxic Tort

The MDL court overseeing the coordinated federal litigation stemming from a 2007 peanut butter recall recently granted summary judgment to the defenda…
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IOM Issues Food Safety Report Calling for Reform of FDA

By Sean Wajert on June 15, 2010
Posted in Articles, Consumer Products, Food and Beverage, Toxic Tort

A report issued last week by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council (at the request of Congress) concludes that the FDA is …
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FDA Food Inspection Audits At Issue

By Sean Wajert on May 13, 2009
Posted in Articles, Food and Beverage, Toxic Tort

Published reports cite data suggesting that the FDA is having difficulty meeting its audit goals for food-safety inspections done contractually by sta…
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CDC Report Indicates Lack of Recent Progress on Food Safety

By Sean Wajert on April 13, 2009
Posted in Articles, Consumer Products, Food and Beverage, Toxic Tort

A new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that after “important declines” seen in previous years, the …
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Report Reveals Issues With Traceability Of Food Products

By Sean Wajert on March 30, 2009
Posted in Articles, Food and Beverage

Identifying the suppliers and distributors of food products remains a serious issue according to a report released last week by the Inspector General …
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New Food Safety Bill Introduced in Congress

By Sean Wajert on March 9, 2009
Posted in Articles, Food and Beverage

Two years ago, there was a nationwide outbreak of E. coli linked to consumption of contaminated spinach from a California supplier. That was the 25th …
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FDA Reports on Salmonella Outbreak

By Sean Wajert on January 23, 2009
Posted in Articles, Food and Beverage, Toxic Tort

The FDA has reported on its investigation into the source of the recent Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak. At this time, the FDA and the Centers for Dis…
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Class Certification Denied In Peanut Butter MDL Litigation

By Sean Wajert on August 3, 2008
Posted in Articles, Class Action, Consumer Products, Food and Beverage

A federal court last week refused to certify two different classes of plaintiffs in multidistrict litigation that accuses ConAgra Foods Inc. of sellin…
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FDA Still Puzzled By Salmonella Outbreak

By Sean Wajert on July 23, 2008
Posted in Articles, Consumer Products, Food and Beverage

Federal officials announced last week that all tomatoes currently on the U.S. market are safe to eat. But they admit they still don’t know what’s caus…
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Update on Salmonella

By Sean Wajert on July 23, 2008
Posted in Articles, Food and Beverage

Quick follow-up to our recent post on salmonella in which we noted a current focus on peppers rather than tomatoes: Federal officials announced yester…
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