Bravo Farms Cheese E. coli Lawsuit
Bravo Farms Cheeses LLC is working with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to determine where in the process of making Dutch Style raw milk Gouda cheese the product became contaminated with E. coli 0157:H7.
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Bravo Farms Co-owner Bill Boersma told the Visalia Times-Delta newspaper that the creamery gets its raw milk from a Tulare County dairy, which is not being identified. The milk is not pasteurized, but does undergo a fermentation process to protect it and make it safe for consumption, Boersma told the newspaper. The cheese is aged 60 days and Boersma says the company is not sure at which point it became tainted. He noted that other Bravo Farms cheeses have not been affected.
Several labs across the country are testing the recalled cheese and will make a determination as to a source soon, Boersma said. CDC has preliminarily associated Bravo Farms Dutch Style Gouda cheese with an outbreak of 25 E. coli infections in Arizona, Colorado, southern California, New Mexico and Nevada. More cases could show up. The Bravo Farms Dutch Style Gouda cheese was featured in a Costco promotion, which included sampling at stores.
Costco has published a recall notice, saying lot codes less than 0233 are affected. The E. coli cheese was sold primarily in 1.5 pound packages but also in 8-ounce pieces in some California retail stores.
E. coli lawyers at PritzkerOlsen, P.A., are accepting cases for an E. coli cheese lawsuit against Bravo Farms of Traver, California, and Costco. PritzkerOlsen is a leading national practitioner of foodborne illness litigation and is already in contact with victims of this outbreak. A gouda cheese E. coli claims center has been established at PritzkerOlsen for members of the public, available at 1-888-377-8900 (Toll Free) or by completing a contact form on the side of this Web page.
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