An inexpensive and convenient meal that many Americans eat is the “tv dinner.” These dinners are precooked meals that are packaged and frozen to be resold. A recent salmonella outbreak has health officials worried about personal injury conditions from the tainted product.
ConAgra Foods, the company responsible for the pot pies causing the outbreak, suspected the turkey in the outbreak. When that was ruled out as the cause, the company then checked the peas, carrots and potatoes.
Our firm’s San Diego personal injury lawyers believe that companies that are in the business of providing food that is convenient should also make sure their food is free of contamination and products liability. Regardless of how long it takes to make a meal, quality should be a priority because their product is sold to millions of people every day.
Salmonella poisoning has been occurring frequently in recent years. Pistachios in California as well as peanuts in Georgia have been linked to salmonella. WebMD is a website that contains information about prevention of salmonella. If you believe you may be infected with salmonella, be sure to check with a physician, and then throw away any food that could be tainted.
ConAgra – which sold over 100 million pot pies last year under the Banquet label – decided to make the consumer responsible for something called the kill step. This process involves cooking products to the point where the internal temperature of the food reaches 165 degrees or more.
This step kills the bacteria that cause salmonella, but as San Diego personal injury lawyers, should it not be the responsibility of companies producing food to make sure their food does not cause bacteria that can lead to personal injury? If a company is in the business of providing food to Americans, that company needs to make sure products are contaminate free before sale to consumers.
You pay for a TV dinner and you end up going to hopsital for medical treatment — who would you hold responsible?
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About Michael PinesMichael Pines is a former insurance company attorney who specializes in car accident injury. While he was an insurance attorney, he learned from behind the scenes on how insurance companies work and how they decided to pay injured people. Now that he works against insurance companies, Michael's inside knowledge has resulted in significant benefits to his clients injured in car accidents.
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