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Wisconsin-based dairy company Schreiber Foods Inc. has recalled more cream cheese products as part of an ongoing recall due to potential salmonella contamination.
So far, the cream cheese maker has recalled 836,721 units of cream cheese products, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration incident report initiated on May 3. Several major food retailers, including Hy Vee, Kroger, and Aldi, distributed and sold the affected cream cheeses.
The recalled products were distributed in California, Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. The products were also shipped to Puerto Rico.
A total of eight cream cheese spreads made for various supermarkets and sold under different names are impacted by the recall including Dunkin, Dutch Farms, Happy Farms, Fareway, and Essential Everyday.
Customers who may have purchased the products have been urged by Schreiber Foods to “discard it immediately or return it to their local store for a full refund.”
The bacteria kills hundreds of people in the U.S. every year. About 1 million cases of illness are caused by salmonella in food.
Salmonella Poisoning
This form of food poisoning is usually a very mild illness but, in many cases, has extremely serious side-effects.
Some people with salmonella infection have no symptoms. Most people develop diarrhea, fever and abdomina) cramps within 8 to 72 hours after exposure. Most healthy people recover within a few days to a week without specific treatment.
However, in many cases, diarrhea can cause severe dehydration and requires prompt medical attention. Life-threatening complications also may develop if the infection spreads beyond the intestines. These complications are especially common if the salmonella victim has a pre-existing condition.
Many people have compromised immune systems and are especially vulnerable to bacterial infections. Such immunodeficiencies are especially common in the post-COVID era. Coronavirus had a very high survival rate, but it took its toll on the body. For example, breakthrough COVID infections (people who’d been vaccinated and got sick) weren’t that uncommon.
If the body barely survived one illness, it often doesn’t have the strength to fight off powerful bacterial infections, like salmonella.
Gıda Güvenliği Sorunları
Contaminants in food products don’t appear out of thin air. They came from someplace, usually during initial production, late production, or product storage. Salmonella bacteria usually comes from animal feces. So, the presence of salmonella could mean that the initial process could be unsanitary. Unsanitary conditions are also common on assembly lines. Workers sometimes get careless when they repeat the same motions over and over. Improper storage or shipping temperatures could cause NDMA tainting and other such issues.
Usually, instead of addressing the underlying issue, food companies just recall tainted lots. So, there’s a chance the same problem may occur again.
The Food and Drug Administration cannot unilaterally force companies to recall products or change their manufacturing methods. It can only ask companies to recall products.
Defective Product Actions
Furthermore, FDA actions don’t compensate Salmonella poisoning and other tainted food victims. Only a skilled kişisel yaralanma avukatı can do that. Usually, a lawyer sues the defendant for negligence or for selling a defective product.
Basically, negligence is a lack of care. Companies have a duty of care to warn customers about known side-effects. They cannot bury these warnings until someone gets sick or until someone finds out and then comes clean about it. If the company failed to warn people and the victim/plaintiff sustained injury, compensation is available.
Defective product actions are strict liability actions. Victims/plaintiffs must only prove that a tainted product caused injury. Substantial damages, including punitive damages, are usually available in these claims.
The difference between these claims is subtle but important. Cause, the critical element in both claims, is a bit easier to prove in negligence claims. So, the choice of action largely depends on the facts of the case and the evidence available.
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