Attorney Fred Pritzker and his Bad Bug Law Team are filing lawsuits on behalf of victims of the hepatitis A outbreak linked to frozen berries sold at Costco. This outbreak is ongoing, and you can contact Fred for a free consultation here to discuss your Costco hepatitis A claim and a lawsuit to get compensation.
Costco Hepatitis A
To date, the CDC has confirmed that 158 people in 10 states became ill from hepatitis A after eating ‘Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend sold at Costco. The states involved in the outbreak include the following: Arizona (23), California (77), Colorado (28), Hawaii (8), New Hampshire (1), New Jersey (1), New Mexico (9), Nevada (6), Utah (3), and Wisconsin (2).
Evidence linking the Townsend Farms/Costco berries to the hepatitis A outbreak include the following:
- All ill people who reported eating this product purchased it from Costco markets;
- By combining information gained from FDA’s traceback and traceforward investigations and the CDC’s epidemiological investigation, FDA and CDC have determined that the most likely vehicle for the hepatitis A virus appears to be a common shipment of pomegranate seeds from a company in Turkey, Goknur Foodstuffs Import Export Trading
On June 4, 2013, Townsend Farms, Inc. of Fairview, Oregon voluntarily recalled certain lots of its frozen Organic Antioxidant Blend because of potential hepatitis A virus contamination.
