Freshway Foods Lettuce Recall
The E. coli O145 outbreak that has sickened people in Michigan, New York and Ohio has been linked to Freshway Foods romaine lettuce. The outbreak has prompted Freshway Foods, a Sidney, Ohio firm, to recall products containing romaine lettuce with a use by date of May 12 or earlier. The recall comes after FDA informed Freshway Foods the afternoon of Wednesday, May 5 that a previously unopened product sample in a New York state laboratory tested positive for the bacteria.
The recalled Freshway Foods romaine lettuce products were sold under the Freshway brand and Imperial Sysco brand to food service outlets (including university campus food service), restaurants and in-store retail salad bars and delis in the following states:
Alabama, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
The recalled romaine products were also sold for distribution to in-store salad bars and delis for Kroger, Giant Eagle, Ingles Markets, and Marsh stores in the states listed above. Consumers who purchased romaine from an in-store salad bars and delis at Kroger, Giant Eagle, Ingles Markets, and Marsh stores in the states previously listed should throw the product away UNLESS SOMEONE ATE SOME OF THE LETTUCE AND MAY CONTRACT OR HAS CONTRACTED AN E COLI O145 INFECTION. If someone has been diagnosed with an E coli infection, you should contact our law firm regarding testing the leftovers for E. coli.
In some cases, a person will be diagnosed with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) or thrombotic thrombocytopenic pupura (TTP), severe complications of an E. coli infection, before there can be a definitive diagnosis of E. coli. These people will be very sick and unable to contact our law firm. If your loved one has HUS and/or TTP, contact our law firm for Freshway Foods lawsuit information by calling 1-999-377-8900 (TOLL FREE) or submit our online form for a free consultation. We are not paid unless you win.
Freshway Foods Lettuce and E. coli O145 Outbreak in Michigan, Ohio and New York
Our law firm recently obtained compensation for university students who were sickened by lettuce eaten at a campus cafeteria. In lettuce E. coli outbreak cases, we look at the food service company that ran the cafeteria, the supplier of the lettuce and the grower to obtain compensation for our clients.
Lettuce has been a major source of E. coli outbreaks in the past, and Romaine lettuce supplied by Freshway Foods, a Sidney, Ohio firm, has now been associated with the E. coli O145 outbreak that has sickened over 50 people in Michigan, Ohio and New York, including university students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Ohio State University in Columbus and Daemen College in Amherst, New York.
Our law firm has been contacted by people sickened in this lettuce E coli outbreak, and we are actively investigating. If you would like to discuss an E. coli O145 lawsuit against Freshway Foods and others, please call 1-888-377-8900 (TOLL FREE) or submit our online form.
E. coli O145 Probe Continues Around Colleges
A public health study to determine the cause of an E. coli O145 outbreak in Ohio, Michigan and New York could last a couple of more weeks.
In the areas of the outbreak – Columbus, Ann Arbor and Buffalo – health investigators are presenting a questionnaire to victims of the E. coli O145 outbreak to determine where they ate and what they ate. The same questions will be asked of a control group of individuals who ate at the same places and didn’t get sick.
Though time-consuming, the epidemiological study can show patterns that implicate an individual food source as the probable cause of an outbreak. While most E. coli outbreaks are caused by contaminated ground beef, officials have told law firm Pritzker Olsen that ground beef is not high on the list of suspect foods in the current outbreak.
Since the outbreak began in early April, the number of ill people considered to be victims of the outbreak has grown to 60.
E. coli O145 is similar to the more prevalent E. coli O157:H7 in that it is an enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) and a Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC). It is the Shiga toxins that can cause death or severe illness, including hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS.) E. coli O145 is part of a group of E. coli serotypes called non-O157 STEC.
It is not too early to contact an E. coli lawyer. For a free consultation call Pritzker Olsen at 1-888-377-8900 (Toll Free) or contact us online. Even if the food source is not found, epidemiological evidence combined with the microbiological evidence that links all of the cases of E. coli O145 together can be enough to hold a restaurant, food service company and others liable.
