Widow names raw milk creamery linked to listeria outbreak in wrongful death lawsuit

[jpak]

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2017/03/15/widow-names-raw-milk-creamery-linked-to-listeria-outbreak-in-wrongful-death-lawsuit.html

The widow of a Vermont man who died from a listeria-related stroke has named a New York-based raw milk creamery in a wrongful death lawsuit. Veronica Friedman, whose late husband, Richard Friedman, died on Nov. 2, said her family purchased the contaminated cheese manufactured by Vulto Creamery in early October, Food Safety News reported.

Friedman said her husband went to the emergency room at Brattleboro Hospital on Oct. 11 after he began experiencing serious symptoms of listeriosis. He was transferred to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center on Oct. 12 before landing at Mt. Ascutney Rehab in Windsor about a week later, Food Safety News reported. At Mt. Ascutney he suffered a massive stroke and was airlifted back to Dartmouth Hitchcock, where he died, the news outlet reported.

Hitchcock is one of two fatal cases in a multi-state listeria outbreak that has been traced to a soft raw milk cheese made by Vulto Creamery. The Walton, New York-based company issued a recall on March 7 for all lots of Ouleout, Mirand, Heinennellie and Willowemec soft wash-rind raw milk cheeses after two samples tested positive for listeria.

“People think of food poisoning as inconvenient rather than really dangerous,” William Marler, Friedman’s attorney, told Food Safety News. “But the reality is that what you eat can seriously damage or kill you. Food providers have a responsibility to protect the lives of their customers, especially when producing raw milk products, which pose a higher risk to consumers.”

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There is for pasteurization

yup

[msanthrope]

1. More victims...larger recall.....

https://www.cdc.gov/listeria/outbreaks/soft-cheese-03-17/index.html

[jpak]

2. Listeria is bad news all around

[Drahthaardogs]

11. It's really not. If you grew up on a farm drinking raw milk

Or in parts of the world where they do, you probably are immune.

Most Americans have no resistance to it.

[KittyWampus]

3. I can understand wanting unhomogenized milk but to drink/eat raw milk products seems daft.

[msanthrope]

5. You should Google some of the "rawsome" threads here.

Looney stuff.

[KittyWampus]

9. Even if it were my own girls, I'd boil it.

[Igel]

13. I miss raw milk.

At the same time, I know there's a slight risk and wouldn't give it to some people. (At one time I bought a gallon on the way to work. It was breakfast, lunch, and beverage.)

[msanthrope]

14. I miss TB. nt

[Blue_true]

4. Gutting of food safety REG insures we will see a lot more deaths due to food. nt

[MicaelS]

6. I would no more consume raw milk products than..

Eat raw meat, eggs or fish.

[sarah FAILIN]

7. This was all I had as a kid

We milked our own cow and made butter and buttermilk. It's a wonder none of us died from the way it sounds.

[Drahthaardogs]

12. It usually only affects the frail

You were likely exposed as a kid and did not get sick

[TexasBushwhacker]

8. The cheese is clearly labeled an unpasteurized milk product

If I ate it, I would expect that I might get sick.

[hatrack]

10. Pastreurization?!!?? That's .. . ELITIST!!!!

Sorry for what happened to her husband, but, Jesus, that's why they have pasteurized milk and cheese and yogurt, etc.

[Igel]

15. Darwin Award.

Yeah, it's a crass thing to say. But life is risks, some are avoidable, and if you choose not to avoid them you had better make the choice consciously.

[Thor_MN]

17. Aint that some frenchy thing? Some Louis guy, but they say it funny.

We gots rights to freedum milk from da buybull...

[linuxman]

16. I would never drink it, personally, but it should be legal for adults to consume.

I really don't give a fuck what a consenting, legal age adult puts in their body.