The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit is ready to hear the back-to-back oral arguments on behalf of Michael and Stewart Parnell. The brothers, once associated with a deadly Salmonella ou...
Florida is just too large a market, and it’s too precedent-setting among jurisdictions for the cell-grown meat ventures to let the ban of their product go unchallenged. So, to no one’s surpri...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/08/upside-sues-florida-over-cell-grown-meat-ban/
After contracting Salmonella, a former employee at a café in an Australian state has been awarded more than $65,000 (U.S. $42,500). The ruling from the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Te...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/07/former-cafe-worker-awarded-damages-after-getting-salmonella/
Nestlé has announced that it is facing criminal charges regarding a 2022 E. coli outbreak in France that was traced to pizzas. The judges leading the case filed charges against Nestlé France an...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/07/nestle-france-faces-charges-in-buitoni-case/
The owner of a dairy company in Switzerland that was behind a fatal Listeria outbreak has received a suspended prison sentence. A district court in Schwyz gave the verdict of a conditional senten...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/05/suspended-sentence-in-swiss-fatal-listeria-outbreak-case/
A woman facing charges in a fatal mushroom poisoning incident in Australia has pleaded not guilty to murder. Erin Patterson entered the plea at Latrobe Valley Magistrates Court and was remanded i...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/05/woman-pleads-not-guilty-in-australian-mushroom-case/
The 11th Circuit Court Of Appeals was scheduled to hear that five-year habeas corpus motion from Stewart Parnell but pulled it back. The second highest court in the land promises to re-assign the...
A federal court has enjoined a California company to stop manufacturing and distributing adulterated food products that violate the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA). In a civil complai...
A court in Australia has ruled that I Cook Foods was unfairly ordered to close and destroy products in relation to a Listeria incident in 2019. However, the judgment by the Supreme Court of Victo...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2023/11/judge-rules-i-cook-foods-closure-was-unfair/
Eurofins has called a compensation claim against one of its labs by Lactalis in relation to a 2017 Salmonella incident “frivolous.” Production at Lactalis’ Craon site in France was suspende...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2023/11/eurofins-hits-back-at-unfounded-lactalis-claim/
Appellate attorney Amy Lee Copeland has provided the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit with Stewart Parnell’s Reply Brief. The reply is to the government’s opposition to Parnell�...
The Environmental Protection Agency’s ban on the insecticide chlorpyrifos was arbitrary and capricious, mainly because the two-year-old decision to ban it was rushed. Consequently, the U.S. Cou...
A European court has ruled as part of a Dutch case involving Salmonella detection in poultry and when repeat testing can be undertaken. The request for a preliminary ruling covered the interpreta...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2023/10/eu-court-rules-in-referred-dutch-salmonella-case/
He’s a senior citizen held for a white-collar crime, but the government has no interest in releasing him early to free up some cell space. On the contrary, an assistant U.S. Attorney filed a vi...
More child labor violations appear to be on the horizon for the regulated meat industry, Perdue Farms and Tyson Foods are reportedly under renewed federal scrutiny for possible illegal child labo...
In a kind of” twofer” Marler Clark, the Food Safety Law Firm, has provided USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service with more arguments on why certain Salmonella serotypes should be declar...
Like former PCA President Stewart Parnell, Michael Parnell is before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta with a petition to vacate his conviction and sentence. Those petitions by the Par...
Food safety and clean water always make for a good marriage. That can be seen in a recent legal settlement involving two large dairies in Eastern Washington that were accused of contaminating the...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2023/07/food-safety-scores-a-win-in-recent-water-settlement/
Now on senior status, Federal Judge W. Louis Sands presided over the 2014 criminal trial of Peanut Corporation of American executives. And in new rulings, Sands has said “No” and “No” aga...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2023/04/two-michael-parnell-motions-were-denied-by-the-federal-court/
Nestlé France has agreed to a compensation package for people affected in a 2022 E. coli outbreak. The agreement between the company and the families of victims was signed at the end of March. T...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2023/04/nestle-to-compensate-victims-in-e-coli-outbreak/
Well, rumor has it that the documentary version of the story of the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak will be out in June 2023. When all thought it would go to the “silver screen” in Janu...
USDA’s Farm Service Agency makes loans to family farms that are categorically exempt (“CatEx”) from the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”), which permits agencies to make such e...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2023/04/federal-judge-blocks-break-for-medium-sized-factory-farms/
In one of the largest ever food safety fine and forfeiture case a producer of Honey Smacks cereal pleaded guilty to operating in unsanitary conditions that resulted in an outbreak of Salmonella i...
The husband of a woman who died from a Listeria infection from eating ice cream made by Big Olaf Creamery has been awarded $4 million in damages. The victim, Mary Katherine Billman, was the prima...
There was one election this week that was like Milwaukee voting to ban breweries or Hersey, PA, putting the kibosh on chocolate makers. It was in Sioux Falls, SD, where an ordinance to prohibit p...
About 45 people are involved in a class action lawsuit against an Alberta, Canada, Hutterite colony related to contaminated pork that led to an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak. A judge certified the cas...
Another West Texas jury will be called next April for a second criminal trial of Paul Kruse, the retired Blue Bell Creamery president from Brenham, TX. The first jury, empaneled Aug. 1 this year...
— ANALYSIS — Today the U.S. Court for the Western District of Texas is giving its first attention since Aug. 15 to the criminal case involving former Blue Bell chief Paul Kruse. “The c...
An EU court has provided an interpretation of the rules as part of a complex domestic case in Estonia involving Listeria and fish. The European Court of Justice found that the zero tolerance limi...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2022/08/eu-court-clarifies-rules-in-estonian-fish-listeria-case/
At Broken Arrow, OK, Blue Bell Creamery made unlimited ice cream available for the 20th Annual Taste of Summer Festival. And a 13-year-old North Texas girl gave Blue Bell the inspiration for one ...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2022/07/kruse-trial-begins-monday-with-jury-selection/