MARLER BLOG: Toxic tacos: A microbial combination plate - (Marler Blog)

November 20, 2007 – 7:30 pm

http://www.marlerblog.com/2007/11/articles/legal-cases/toxic-tacos-a-microbial-combination-plate/
W
hen Taco Bell offered free tacos for every American during baseball’s World Series last month, all I could do was hold my head and mutter something like: “Hasta luego, Amigos!”
The very idea of doling out fast-food tacos to millions of baseball fans should ring like a casino jackpot jingle in the corridors of a personal injury law firm like mine - or all the “wannabees” that are beginning to light up the Internet with “google ads” and plagiarized blogs. Recently tacos seem have a food-poisoning track record right up there with Chinese-manufactured pet food. In the past few years alone, we’ve seen outbreaks of deadly E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella, Hepatitis A, Listeria, Shigella and Norovirus in at least 13 states, from Washington and California to New York and Texas – all traced to restaurant tacos.
Just this year there have been taco-related outbreaks in Alabama, Illinois and Oregon. And those are […]


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