Super A Foods Inc. Retailer of Recalled Beef
Super A Foods, Inc. is included on the list of retailers that may have sold beef products recalled by Valley Meat Company, a Modesto CA firm prior to the recall being issued on August 5. Super A. Foods, Inc. is one of many retailers involved in this recall. See the full FSIS list of retailers.
Super A Foods is a California-based, family owned and operated, full service grocery store. Their home office is in Commerce, CA. They have 13 stores in Southern California.
The Valley Meat Company beef recall involved one million pounds of ground beef products, including frozen beef patties and bulk ground beef, that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. This recall was prompted by an outbreak of illnesses in California that the California Department of Public Health associated with consumption of Valley Meat Company products. Because much of the recalled beef is frozen, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is concerned that customers may still have the tainted beef in freezers.
About E coli Contamination
Because beef trimmings (fat and gristle trimmed from choice cuts) may be purchased from various slaughterhouses and then ground with better in-house cuts to produce the various ground beef options (85% lean, 93% lean, etc.), traceback in an E. coli outbreak associated with ground beef can be difficult. We advocate for pre-grinding testing of beef trim. Without this, an important step in E. coli O157 prevention is missing.
Pritzker Olsen, P. A. is a premier law firm that practices extensively in the area of E coli 0157:H7 litigation. We have extensive experience and have recovered millions for our clients. For a free consultation about your E coli case, call 1-888-377-8900 or submit our contact form.
Hartman Farm Milk Not Alone In E. coli Scrutiny
Minnesota is not alone right now in warning consumers about E. coli in raw milk.
On Wednesday, Minnesota Department of Health announced an association between three and possibly four E. coli O157:H7 infections and raw milk from Hartmann Dairy Farm in Gibbon. If you or a loved one has become ill from drinking milk from the Hartmann Farm, aka M.O.M.’s, you are urged to immediately contact your health care provider.
Meanwhile, the Washington State Department of Health announced that so far this year eight people who drank raw milk from Jackie’s Jersey Milk in Whatcom County have become infected with E. coli O157:H7. Washington officials said six cases came in February and two came more recently.
The state health department in Washington said it continues to work with the farm to review the dairy’s production and product handling practices.
The Minnesota raw milk E. coli investigation includes a toddler who developed life-threatening hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS).
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 90 percent of diarrhea-associated HUS is caused by E. coli O157:H7. Overall for E. coli O157 illnesses, about 6 percent result in HUS and 42 percent of affected individuals are hospitalized.
But for children under the age of 5, the CDC estimates that they develop HUS 15 percent of the time. Especially where raw milk is concerned, adults must understand that children are the most susceptible to suffering the worst outcomes from ingestion of E. coli organisms.
HUS can result in death or serious health conditions that can last a lifetime. Any raw milk HUS lawsuit should address the long-term compensation needs of patients — not just the harms that they initially suffer. To consult with an E. coli lawyer about illnesses stemming from raw milk, call food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen at 1-888-377-8900 (Toll Free) or complete our online consultation form.
Our firm is involved in practically every major outbreak of E. coli in the United States and we have recovered millions for victims of food poisoning.
E. coli O145 Outbreak Draws CDC Team to Ohio
A four-member team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta is scheduled to travel Sunday to central Ohio to further investigate an E. coli O145 outbreak that has sickened university students and others in Ohio, Michigan and New York.
So far there have been 15 lab-confirmed illnesses and 32 potential E. coli O145 infections around Ohio State University, the University of Michigan and Daemen College in Amherst, Erie County, New York. Potentially many other cases could be out there because not all health care providers normally run tests for the pathogen when patients report gastrointestinal illness.
E. coli O145 belongs to a family of seven E. coli types headed by E. coli O157:H7, a bacteria very familiar in the medical community. E. coli O145 is rare by comparison, but it, too, emits a powerful toxin that attacks and misshapes a person’s red blood cells. The destruction starts in the intestinal tract, causing diarrhea that is often bloody. In five to 15 percent of cases, the infections worsen into life-threatening hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS).
Columbus Dispatch reporter Misti Crane reported that the CDC team will conduct an epidemiological investigation of the outbreak by interviewing known victims and a control group of people who haven’t been sickened. In the process, investigators can find patterns and sometimes determine which food is the likely cause of the outbreak.
Pathogen testing of actual food samples is still in progress, but so far there have been no positive results.
Even though a probable cause for the outbreak has not yet been found, it is not too early to contact an E. coli attorney if you have been sickened in this outbreak. National food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen is accepting cases and providing free consultations to those who have confirmed and suspected illnesses. You can contact an E. coli lawyer at the firm by calling Toll Free 1-888-377-8900 or by completing the contact form on the side of this Web page.
Pritzker Olsen is a leading practitioner of foodborne illness litigation and it has collected millions for victims of food poisoning, including people represented in past cases from Ohio, Michigan and New York. Our firm also is dedicated to efforts aimed at preventing the spread of pathogens in our food supply. Several of our clients who have lost loved one to food contamination have testified before Congress, which has been slow to act on badly needed food safety reforms.
E. coli Victim Still Battling One Year Later
Twelve months ago, Faye Bryant had just turned 60 and was about to begin her retirement. She was healthy, strong and was looking forward to spending more time with her grandchildren and working in her large garden.
Faye and her husband, John, live in the small town of Moultrie, Georgia. They often ate at a local restaurant, the Barbeque Pit. Unbeknownst to them, the Barbeque Pit served beef products produced by Nebraska Beef, Ltd. The beef was adulterated with E. coli O157:H7. On the day Faye was about to begin her retirement, she developed symptoms of E. coli O157:H7 poisoning. Her illness nearly killed her.
After months of hospitalization and ongoing rehabilitation, Faye is still recovering. She’s been left with life-long residuals that profoundly affect virtually every aspect of her life.
In the year since Faye was sickened, thousands of other Americans have become victims of foodborne illness. Many, like her, owe their illnesses to companies that repeatedly violate food safety regulations or ignore them altogether.
Nebraska Beef, the producer of the product that sickened Faye Bryant, has been implicated in previous E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks.
As a result of these outbreaks and others, it appears there will finally be some long overdue changes to our food safety laws. As needed as they are, all the laws and regulations will not prevent greedy or incompetent companies (or both) from selling adulterated food. Sadly, the only thing available to foodborne illness survivors that really causes companies to change (or go out of business) is forcing them to pay for the harms and losses they cause people like Faye Bryant.
This is one anniversary that people like Faye Bryant will not be celebrating.
After being contacted by John Bryant, Faye’s husband, attorney Fred Pritzker immediately flew to Georgia to meet with the family. He spent two days in the intensive care unit with the family as Faye fought for her life. Fred came back from that experience deeply saddened and with information about Faye and her family that has helped him build an excellent case.
We have the resources to take the legal steps necessary to represent E. coli victims in complex litigation. We do not get paid unless we recover for the family via a settlement or jury verdict.
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