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Huntley High School E. coli Outbreak – what you need to know

Bill Marler

The most likely mode of transmission of STEC in the HHS cafeteria was through an infected food handler. All cases were students or non-cafeteria staff. One food handler from the HHS cafeteria tested positive for STEC 2 (Appendix E, Table 1) but reported never experiencing symptoms.

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The Litigated Dish: Top foodborne pathogens

Food Safety News

I hope this will drive more traffic to my law firm’s many existing websites and blogs — we even have this newspaper: Food Safety News. I could contribute by answering the Internet’s most-asked food safety questions. I’m a food safety lawyer at the only firm in the world doing this for the last 30 years.

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31 sick, with 2 deaths: Listeria Outbreak “over” in US, without a source, but in Canada the link was made to chicken – produced in the US

Bill Marler

Rosemount cooked diced chicken was supplied to institutions (including cafeterias, hospitals and nursing homes) where many of the individuals who became sick resided, or visited, before becoming ill. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.