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Puffed Rice Recall and Puffed Wheat Recall
The following information on the Puffed Rice and Puffed Wheat recall is provided by Pritzker | Olsen, P.A., a national law firm with extensive experience with Salmonella lawsuits. Our lawyers have been interviewed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Lawyers USA and other publications. We have recently settled Salmonella cases. To contact a Salmonella lawyer at our firm, please call toll-free at 1-888-377-8900 or submit our free case consultation form.
URGENT UPDATE TO THIS PUFFED RICE RECALL AND PUFFED WHEAT RECALL: 13 STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENTS HAVE REPORTED 21 CASES OF SALMONELLA AGONA LINKED TO THE CEREAL, WHICH WAS RECALLED BY MALT-O-MEAL COMPANY.
Malt-O-Meal has announced a Puffed Rice and Puffed Wheat recall due to possible Salmonella contamination. The Puffed Rice and Puffed Wheat recall involves unsweetened Puffed Rice and unsweetened Puffed Wheat Cereals produced with “Best If Used By” codes between April 8, 2008 (coded as “APR0808”) and March 18, 2009 (coded as “MAR1809”).
The recalled Puffed Rice and Puffed Wheat was distributed nationally, marketed under the Malt-O-Meal brand and as some private label brands including Acme, America's Choice, Food Club, Giant, Hannaford, Jewel, Laura Lynn, Pathmark, Shaw’s, ShopRite, Tops and Weis Quality. Since this Puffed Rice and Puffed Wheat recall involves so many brands of unsweetened Puffed Rice or unsweetened Puffed Wheat cereals, please check your cupboards to see if you have any of the recalled cereal.
The Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice recall was initiated after the company’s internal routine food safety testing detected the presence of Salmonella in a product produced on March 24, 2008. According to Malt-OMeal, the company immediately commenced an investigation to determine the root cause of this one positive finding as well as the extent of any possible exposure, and initial results from this follow-up investigation indicated that additional Puffed Rice and Puffed Wheat cereals may have been exposed to Salmonella.
As a result of this internal investigation, Malt-O-Meal has chosen “out of an abundance of caution to protect consumers” to voluntarily remove all unsweetened Puffed Rice and unsweetened Puffed Wheat products with “Best If Used By” codes between April 8, 2008 (coded as “APR0808”) and March 18, 2009 (coded as “MAR1809”).
According to Malt-O-Meal, the company’s investigation into the source of the Salmonella has determined a root cause of this situation and corrective measures have been taken to ensure that there is no re-occurrence of this issue.
On the Malt-O-Meal website, the company states, “If anyone believes they have experienced an illness or any other adverse effect from consuming any of our products, we hope they will contact us so we can work with them on a case-by-case basis.” As attorneys with extensive experience with Salmonella claims, we would suggest that anyone who believes they have been sickened by the recalled Puffed Rice or Puffed Wheat contact our office for a free consultation with a Salmonella lawyer. To contact an attorney at our office, please call 1-888-377-8900 (toll-free), e-mail attorney Fred Pritzker, or submit the firm’s free case consultation form.
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Non-O157 E. coli (Non-O157 STEC)
Non-O157 E. coli can cause serious injury and death, and yet ground beef contaminated with these strains of E. coli are not considered adulterated under federal law. The six most common strains of non-O157 E. coli include E. coli O26, E. coli O45, E. coli O103, E. coli O111, E. coli O121 and E. coli O145.
Steak E. coli Outbreak
Our E. coli lawyers are investigating cases of E. coli O157 that have been linked to steak served at restaurants in California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and Washington.
Fairbank Farms Beef Recall Lawsuit
Fairbank Farms ground beef products have been associated with E. coli cases in California, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont.
Petting Zoo Llama E. coli HUS
Our law firm has been retained to represent a 3-year-old child who contracted an E. coli infection after visiting an apple orchard/petting zoo in Minnesota. The child developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS).
E. coli Wrongful Death Settlement
We have recently settled a number of E. coli cases involving victims of various E. coli outbreaks, including a wrongful death claim.
Recent Foodborne Outbreaks
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