Salmonella lawyer Fred Pritzker, who recently won over $40,000,000.00 for clients injured by another product, is investigating an outbreak of Salmonella Ugansa linked to Richard’s Hog Head Cheese manufactured by Stallings Head Cheese Co. If you were sickened by this product, you can contact Fred and his team for a free consultation here regarding a Salmonella lawsuit. Illness onset dates among the outbreak case-patients ranged from October 16, 2012 to November 10, 2012, and others may have been sickened.
For those who have never heard of hog head cheese, it is not cheese, but a ready-to-eat pork cold cut made from the head meat on a hog. It is a meat jelly, and looks like a block of brown jello with chunks of meat in it. For the uninitiated, it sounds repulsive, but it tastes good.
Today, Stallings Head Cheese Co., Inc., a Houston, Texas company, recalled 4,700 pounds of its hog head cheese because 6 cases of Salmonella food poisoning in Louisiana were linked to the product based on epidemiologic and traceback investigations. The recalled head cheese was sold as Richard’s Hog Head Cheese at stores in Louisiana and Southeastern Texas.
The following products are subject to recall:
- 10-oz. packages of “Richard’s Hog Head Cheese” bearing establishment number “EST. 2257″ inside the USDA mark of inspection and sell by dates “Use by 2 1 2013″ or “Use by 3 20 2013″on each package.
The products subject to recall were produced on November 1, 2012, and December 19, 2012. The products were shipped to a distribution center for retail distribution in Louisiana and Southeastern Texas.
Four of the 6 case-patients confirmed eating the brand under recall. Retail samples of this product from different production dates underwent testing last week, and four of nine samples tested positive for Salmonella. It is not known at this time if these samples are positive for the outbreak strain.
Attorney Fred Pritzker is a national food safety lawyer who recently spoke at Harvard Law School, Cornell and other institutions about food safety and food poisoning lawsuits. You can contact Fred here for a free consultation. Fred and his Bad Bug Law Team have successfully handled cases involving reactive arthritis and wrongful death.