Salmonella Lawyer Supports Petition Calling for USDA to ban ABR Salmonella
A legal petition filed in May with the United States Department of Agriculture urges the agency to prohibit four types of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella in ground meat and poultry. One of those strains, Salmonella Typhimurium, is the bacteria causing an outbreak of illness in the Northeast that federal investigators have associated with store-ground hamburger from Hannaford supermarkets. Click here for details on the Hannaford ground beef Salmonella recall.
National food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen Attorneys supports the petition filed by nonprofit consumer watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). Our firm is investigating the Hannaford outbreak and has been in touch with victims. More than half of the 16 people confirmed so far as case patients have been hospitalized. To contact a Salmonella lawyer at our firm, call 1-888-377-8900 (Toll Free) for a free case consultation. Our firm is one of the very few U.S. legal groups that is practicing extensively in the area of foodborne illness litigation and we have collected tens of millions of dollars for food poisoning victims across the country.
The Hannaford recall and outbreak has prompted CSPI to amplify its call for action from the USDA. Dangerous strains of Salmonella in meat are making foodborne illnesses harder to treat. CSPI wants the USDA to declare four such strains as "adulterants,'' making products that contain them illegal to sell. E. coli O157:H7 already holds that status when present in ground beef. The declaration would trigger enhanced testing and could minimize their entry into commerce. "Adulterant" status also would force greater accountability on wrongdoers in foodborne illness litigation stemming from outbreaks.
Antibiotic-resistant pathogens may be associated with an increase in the risk of hospitalization or possible treatment failure in infected individuals.The three other Salmonella strains covered by the petition, Salmonella Heidelberg, Salmonella Newport, and Salmonella Hadar have all been linked to outbreaks.
