E. coli Lawyers Investigate Illnesses Possibly Connected to Texas Restaurant
Fralo’s Pizza in Leon Springs, Texas reopened this week after the city’s health department shut it down because of E. coli contamination in the restaurant’s water, local news sources reported. Dozens of customers and employees got sick after eating the restaurant’s food, news reports said. The source of the E.coli water contamination is still unknown, although the restaurant’s problems coincided with a sewage leak across the street from the restaurant. As much as 400,000 gallons of sewage leaked from a sewer line into the ground and a nearby creek bed.
City health officials have since reported that water samples from the restaurant are now coming back clean, and Fralo’s is testing the restaurant’s water supply daily as an extra precaution. According to Sarah Gateswood, a spokesperson for San Antonio Water System:
“It is very hard to determine because there are so many factors that can impact water quality especially from a well, such as septic tanks. We know the area has a lot of septic tanks. The most important thing is for people to rest assured that the tests we are taking are coming back clean.”
E. coli Water Contamination in Restaurants
E. coli attorneys and food safety lawyers at Pritzker Olsen law firm are investigating illnesses potentially related to this outbreak. “By serving food to the public, a restaurant is essentially guaranteeing that the food product is safe,” said food safety attorney Elliot Olsen. “If it turns out that any portion of that food is not safe, and people become sick as a result, the restaurant can be held responsible.”
E. coli poisoning can lead to serious complications such as hemolytic uremic syndrome, or E. coli HUS, which attacks blood cells and can cause kidney failure and even death. The lawyers at Pritzker Olsen represent clients who have become sick with E. coli from drinking contaminated water, and encourage anyone who thinks they may have become sick from E. coli in water to visit the doctor and get tested for the pathogen.
Sources:
http://www.ksat.com/news/24735142/detail.html
http://www.saws.org/latest_news/NewsDrill.cfm?news_id=702
