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Lawsuit Filed in Response to Nationwide Salmonella Outbreak

- April 11, 2018

The first lawsuit related to a nationwide salmonella outbreak was filed earlier this week in the U.S. District Court in Denver, Colorado, alleging that a “contaminated product from a shop in Colorado Springs seriously wounded a woman in North Dakota.” According to the lawsuit, the woman, Ashley Lemke, “ordered a kratom tea through the post office from Soap Korner, a company based in Colorado Springs that specializes in the sale of herbal and natural extract products.” She originally ordered the tea in hopes that it would help alleviate her fibromyalgia pain.

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Panera Loyalty Reward Card Members Impacted by Latest Data Breach

- April 10, 2018

Data breaches have been in the news a lot lately, and now Panera is joining in on the action. Earlier this month, Panera Bread announced that it too had fallen victim to a data breach and acknowledged that sensitive “customer information was vulnerable on its company website for at least eight months.” However, of the company’s many customers, the breach seems to only have impacted records belonging to “customers who had registered for the MyPanera program to order food online,” and compromised personal details such as names, birthdays, email addresses, home addresses, and “the last four digits of user credit card numbers.” In addition, the affected customers’ “Panera loyalty card numbers were also exposed,” which has some worried that scammers might spend customer money on prepaid accounts.

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More Than 7 Tons of BBQ Beef Affected by J.T.M. Provisions Co. Recall

- April 9, 2018

Who wants BBQ beef with a side of rubber? Doesn’t sound too appetizing, does it? Unfortunately for a couple consumers who purchased pulled barbeque beef from one Ohio-based food company, however, rubber is exactly what they found when they dug into their barbeque beef. The unsavory discovery prompted the company, J.T.M. Provisions Co., to issue of a recall of more than 14,000 pounds, or 7 tons, of their pulled barbequed beef products over concerns that more containers “could be contaminated with rubber.”

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Were Mouse Guts Really Found in Pacific Foods Soup? One Lawsuit Thinks So.

- April 3, 2018

A 72-year-old retired registered nurse got the stomach-churning surprise of a lifetime when she allegedly discovered the partial remains of a dead mouse in a carton of Pacific Foods soup. Unfortunately for the woman, Maesel Dorn, the discovery was made after she had already had a bowl of the soup that she now claims made her “violently ill for two days.” As a result of her ordeal, she filed a $400,000 lawsuit earlier this week, alleging that when she notified Pacific Foods of her findings, the “organic foods company tried to brush off her complaints.”

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