Personal Injury and Wrongful Death

Raw Milk Food Poisoning:
Attorney for E coli, Campylobacteriosis and Listeriosis

Attorneys Fred Pritzker and Brendan Flaherty are representing a man who developed Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) after drinking raw milk contaminated with Campylobacter jejuni. Months after drinking the raw milk, our client is still completely paralyzed from the GBS and is on a respirator.

In the video below Attorney Brendan Flaherty discusses Guillain-Barré and the raw milk case discussed above where our client was paralyzed.

Dangers of Raw Milk

Raw milk is milk straight from the cow, sheep or goat without any further pasteurization or processing. This milk can contain harmful bacteria that may cause people who consume the milk to become sick. Some of these bacteria include:

In addition to Guillain-Barré, discussed above, raw milk can cause hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) (kidney failure), thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), listeriosis meningitis and death.

To contact Attorney Fred Pritzker or another food poisoning attorney at our law firm regarding a raw milk lawsuit in Minnesota, please call 1-888-377-8900 (toll free) or submit our online form for a free consultation.

Attorney Fred Pritzker Discusses Raw Milk

One of the troubling issues about the sale of raw milk is that consumers are not adequately warned about the risks. I represent people sickened by raw milk due to contamination with Campylobacter jejuni, E. coli O157:H7 and other dangerous pathogens. Raw milk can cause kidney failure, paralysis and death. I know because I have stood by the bedsides of people who innocently drank raw milk and ended up hooked up to life support fighting for their lives.

I don’t frankly care if raw milk advocates drink it at their peril. But I do care, passionately, when they harm people who are simply curious about raw milk, don’t realize their milk and dairy products are unpasteurized, are too young to protect themselves, or didn’t even consume any raw milk products (but were infected by someone who did). Since it is impossible to indulge the former and protect the latter, raw milk will remain a public health hazard. It is therefore, critical that sellers of raw milk be required by law to post information about the risks of consuming raw milk, including the risks of kidney failure, paralysis and death. This warning should be posted on every bottle of raw milk sold and on every raw milk product.

In addition, before raw milk can be distributed, sold, or in any way provided to a consumer (this includes consumers who buy a “share” in a cow), the following information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) should have to be provided to the consumer:

  • Raw milk can carry harmful germs that can make you very sick or kill you.
  • Harmful germs usually don’t change the look, taste, or smell of milk, so only when milk has been pasteurized can you be confident that these germs are not present.
  • The risk of getting sick from drinking raw milk is greater for infants and young children, the elderly, pregnant women, and people with weakened immune systems, such as people with cancer, an organ transplant, or HIV/AIDS, than it is for healthy school-aged children and adults.
  • Healthy people of any age can get very sick or even die if they drink raw milk contaminated with harmful germs.
  • Most nutrients remain after milk is pasteurized.

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