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First Salmonella Lawsuit Filed; Wal-Mart The Target
Well, first it was the tomato that was the culprit. Then tomatoes were deemed clean, and safe to eat again. Then, in a twist of culinary fate, a new villain in the salmonella outbreak showed its face - a spicy little number possibly originating at a farm down in Mexico. The jalepeno pepper. And now the tiny pepper has turned its capsaicin-spewing fury on Wal-Mart.
Actually, the complaint at issue was filed on behalf of Delores, Colorado resident Brian Grubbs against Wal-Mart and an unknown supplier, referred to in the complaint as “John Doe”. According to the lawsuit, the Grubbs family purchased jalapeño peppers from the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Cortez, Colorado in late June. Grubbs and his family proceeded to eat them over the next week. According to the Rocky Mountain News:
Samples showed he was positive for salmonella Saintpaul, and later the jalapeño peppers back at his house that he hadn’t yet eaten also tested positive for that strain of salmonella, the suit said.
“Consumers believe that retailers like Wal-Mart know the quality and safety of products they sell,” Marler said. “Retailers benefit from that trust, and must be held accountable for the products they sell.”
Salmonella is, of course, no fun at all - Salmonellosis illnesses from the Saintpaul strain began showing up in Texas and New Mexico in late April, and in early June the CDC linked those illnesses to raw tomatoes and issued consumer warnings. Those warnings were, of course, completely wrong - the list of possible culprits was first widened before eventually being narrowed to raw jalapeno and serrano peppers.
On July 30, the FDA confirmed the presence of salmonella Saintpaul at a farm in Mexico, both in irrigation water and on produce. The investigation is continuing.
Man sickened by jalapeños files first salmonella lawsuit [Rocky Mountain News]
The man in Cortez sickened by a salmonella-contaminated jalapeño pepper has filed suit against Wal-Mart and an unknown supplier, apparently the first lawsuit to arise from the outbreak that has sickened more than 1,300 people nationwide.
Famed food-borne-illness attorney William Marler of Seattle filed the suit today in Montezuma County District Court on behalf of Brian Grubbs.
The suit says the Grubbs family purchased raw jalapeño peppers from the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Cortez in late June and that Grubbs ate them over the next week.
He got sick on July 3, with fever, chills, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting.
His condition got worse, he lost a lot of weight and couldn’t walk without aid, Marler said.
Ultimately, he was treated for dehydration and decreased kidney and liver function at the Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, N.M., the lawsuit said.
Samples showed he was positive for salmonella Saintpaul, and later the jalapeño peppers back at his house that he hadn’t yet eaten also tested positive for that strain of salmonella, the suit said.
“Consumers believe that retailers like Wal-Mart know the quality and safety of products they sell,” Marler said. “Retailers benefit from that trust, and must be held accountable for the products they sell.”
The nationwide outbreak first erupted in Texas and New Mexico in late April, and health officials originally pointed to tomatoes.
Federal Drug Administration officials eventually announced that the likely source was peppers grown at a farm in Mexico and processed in Texas.
Salmonella is a bacterium found in undercooked meat, poultry, eggs and unpasteurized dairy products, among other food.
Most people recover after a couple of miserable weeks, but in certain cases it can cause more severe illnesses such as typhoid fever.
Colorado has 16 confirmed cases of salmonella among the 1,300 cases in 43 states nationwide.
The FDA says peppers grown in the United States are safe.
Salmonella Saintpaul Lawsuit Filed Against Wal-Mart [Salmonella Blog]
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Obama The Patriot - Removes American Flag From His Plane
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Posted on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 8:11:07 AM by Bill Dupray
Barack Obama recently finished a $500,000 total overhaul of his 757. And as part of the new design, he decided to remove the American flag from the tail…
What American running for President of the United States would remove the symbol of his country? And worse, he replaced the flag with it with a symbol of himself… Obama is such a despicable< /SPAN> human being.
Please forward this if you’re not ashamed of our country and our flag & if think this is a disgrace.
If you do not forward this to everyone you know nothing will happen. If Obama is elected president of the United States we are in trouble. If you think the Liberals can lead our country just look what Pelosi and Reid have accomplished for us.
Onward Christian Soldiers in
Sunday, August 03 at 01:00 PM
So, you little heretics had big trouble with your anti-Democratic party store managers and department supervisors meetings and now you are back to Obama the unAmerican. George W Bush will cost the Republican party landslide losses this November. John McSame doesn’t even want Bush out campaigning for him.
Real Christian America is disgusted with Bush and can’t wait to get rid of him.
Real Christian America in
Sunday, August 03 at 04:15 PM
Hi guys!!
Well, first it was the tomato that was the culprit. Then tomatoes were deemed clean, and safe to eat again. Way of things happen
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Hello guys!!
Well, first it was the tomato that was the culprit. Then tomatoes were deemed clean, and safe to eat again. Way of things happen
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Monday, August 04 at 07:57 AM
The investigative report/book- “The case against Barack Obama” The facts- not liberal hype read it for yourself!
Already the liberal media has condemned “The Case Against Barack Obama” because it could change the outcome of the election.
Make no doubt about it, Barack Obama is the media’s darling, the fresh face of the Democratic ticket. But what does Barack Obama really stand for — and will his extreme liberal agenda and complete inexperience in global affairs endanger the country?
That’s what David Freddoso, investigative reporter and National Review Online columnist, examines in “The Case Against Barack Obama.”
Has any major candidate for president of the United States ever received less critical examination than Barack Obama? Who is this man, who was only elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004?
How did someone with his meager record of accomplishment become the Democratic nominee for president? How did someone with the most liberal voting record in the U.S. Senate and long-standing relationships with a former terrorist, a racist minister, and the corrupt operators of Chicago Machine politics end up as a supposed beacon of a newer, cleaner, bipartisan politics?
Investigative reporter David Freddoso has the answers. Doing the legwork that the mainstream media has neglected, applying a critical eye while the media swoons before the Obama-messiah, and posing the hard questions that Obama needs to answer, Freddoso reveals a politician as calculating as any other, a far-left Democrat who goes beyond “abortion rights” to supporting de facto infanticide, whose “new politics” amount to Chicago-style hardball overlain with lofty rhetoric, and who, from his positions of power, has helped his patrons.
In “The Case Against Barack Obama”, you’ll learn:
How Obama’s friendship with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright was no accident, but a carefully thought-out personal and political decision
The inside story of Obama’s association with terrorist Bill Ayers wouldn’t matter – an exposé of the insular radical chic of Chicago’s Hyde Park politics
The real story of Obama as a puppet of Mayor Daley’s corrupt Chicago political machine
What Obama really did for convicted developer Tony Rezko
Debunking the myth of Obama’s “new” politics: how Obama won his first election by throwing all of his competitors off the ballot
The new ‘Dirty Politics’: how underhanded politics sabotaged Obama’s opponents in his 2004 Senate race
A story Obama would like to stay buried in Chicago: how he used his clout as a U.S. senator to save the corrupt Cook County Political Machine when reformers of both parties tried to challenge the entrenched political bosses
How Barack Obama opposed a bill banning infanticide-by-neglect – a stance too extreme even for Nancy Pelosi. (Freddoso has an exclusive interview with the nurse central to the case.)
Why the National Abortion Rights Action League says Obama is the most pro-abortion candidate they have ever backed
How Obama has repeatedly steered taxpayer money to campaign donors
And much, much more.
Sober, fair, and thoroughly researched – and all the more powerful and provocative because of it – “The Case Against Barack Obama” removes the halo from a man less qualified, and more radical, than the mainstream media has let you know.
Find out why electing this man as our Commander-in-Chief could be the most dangerous decision in American history.
David Freddoso covers Capitol Hill for National Review Online, and was previously a political reporter for the Evans-Novak Political Report and Human Events. A graduate of Notre Dame and the Columbia School of Journalism, he lives in Washington, D.C.
Onward Christian Soldiers in
Monday, August 04 at 11:03 AM
Just the facts - No liberal hype & propaganda!
How destructive to the U.S. economy would a Barack Obama presidency be?
An exclusive Newsmax analysis warns: There could be a very rough time ahead.
Beneath Obama’s flowery rhetoric lies a dangerous economic plan that will wreak havoc on the American economy.
Obama plans to return to the failed policies of high taxation coupled with an expansion of government spending.
Worse, Obama says he is absolutely committed to almost doubling the capital gains rate — something he will easily accomplish with a Democrat Congress.
In the coming months — when investors realize that Obama will raise the cap gains rate — there could be a stampede of asset sales as investors rush to take their profits now to avoid Obama’s doubling of the tax rates next year.
All of these issues and more are explored in Newsmax magazine’s special report “Obamanomics — the Coming Tax-and-Spend Nightmare,” by Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund.
This Newsmax magazine special report gives Americans the first in-depth look at the Democratic presidential candidate’s likely strategies — and how they will affect not just the larger economy, but your personal wealth as well.
Indeed, Obama makes no bones about his plans to go on a tax rampage. Not only would he increase the capital-gains tax rate from 15 percent to as much as 28 percent, he wants to allow the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts to expire in 2010, which effectively raises taxes on Americans by tens of billions of dollars.
He also wants to do away with the $102,000 FICA payroll tax cap, which means anyone making over $102,000 would pay an additional 7 percent in taxes on earned income.
And the loan dividend tax rate George Bush implemented? Under President Obama it will be DOA!
If you are concerned about your wealth and family’s financial well-being — and that the American economy remains strong — you must read this special report and share it with friends and family.
Onward Christian Soldiers in
Monday, August 04 at 11:12 AM
I’m so glad Mr. Obama is a far better Christian than you are OCS and when he becomes President of the United States i hope Jesus will make it stick in your jealous greedy hate filled heart for 8 long, prosperous, successful and wonderful years for the American people.
Cheryl in
Monday, August 04 at 11:43 AM
Cheryl,
“The good Lord helps those that help themselves”
stay informed of the facts- not the emotional hype. The demise of Walmart would be great, however, not at the cost of the rest of Americas freedoms, at the hands of a Muslim!.
Onward Christian Soldiers in
Monday, August 04 at 12:06 PM
“The good Lord helps those that help themselves”
That is not in the Bible you phony. It is a false claim to the Christian walk and a cheap effort to justify selfishness you liar.
“God gives grace to the humble.”
That is in the Bible. But you would never know that would you?
Cheryl in
Monday, August 04 at 01:01 PM
“humble"- pass that advice onto to your pagan ruler Obama-
The anti christ.
Here’s something straight from the bible
“You shall have no other Gods before me, You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them”
Check your rant above, sounds like you worship Obama.
Go back to watching your Harry Potter movies -phony
Onward Christian Soldiers in
Monday, August 04 at 11:13 PM
Make no doubt about it, Barack Obama is the media’s darling...
The fact is, OCS, there is doubt about Obama being “the media’s darling” as well as all your other “emotional hype”.
On-air evaluations of Obama have been 72 percent negative, compared with 57 percent negative for McCain. From December to early June, during the primary season, Obama’s coverage had been 38 percent negative compared to 66 percent negative for McCain.
Things aren’t bad enough for you yet? Let’s have 4 more years of McSame. That’s the beauty of a democracy, you get what you deserve.
**They started with tomatos and then they went to peppers, it’s a Salsa Conspiracy right here in our midst!
Ken V in Texas
Tuesday, August 05 at 01:51 PM
“You shall have no other Gods before me, You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them”
Except Walmart and the Republican Party and tax cuts for the super rich huh OCS? Your mantra at the church of selfishness has Rush Limbaugh to lead you in your groveling for dollars!
When you said “The good Lord helps those that help themselves” I’m sure you meant Rush the radio idiot and not McBush the other idiot.
Cheryl in
Tuesday, August 05 at 04:40 PM
“The other idiot” thats you Cheryl.
My posts above have the sources LISTED.
If they are not what you want to see/read go to the source.
For the record I am not a Bush or “Mcsame” fan either.
You & Ken (one in the same?) assume so much but know so little.
Onward Christian Soldiers in
Wednesday, August 06 at 01:13 PM
...assume so much but know so little.
I’ll repeat the same assumption I made when you first posted here, OCS, you are neither a Christian nor a soldier.
Tell me, OCS, were you part of the bunch “informed of the facts” in 2004 that swift boated John McCain for having an illegitimate black child?
Back when Bush and Limbaugh were powerful, guys like you used to scare me OCS. Now you’re just pathetic.
Ken V in Texas
Thursday, August 07 at 07:34 PM
“pathetic”
That would define a Bar owner who has served minors knowingly or not. a Bar owner who has served someone past legal intoxication limits and kept a blind eye when they drove away from their bar onto a public highway/street.
Or a liberal easterner who claims to be a Native of Texas and makes “assumptions” thats “pathetic”
Onward Christian Soldiers in
Friday, August 08 at 09:57 PM
...claims to be a Native of Texas...
Never made that claim. I know the difference between ‘native’ and ‘naturalized’. You haven’t a clue.
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