Today the national food poisoning law firm of Ron Simon & Associates filed the first lawsuit stemming from the recent outbreak of Salmonella linked to roasted whole hogs in Washington State. One of the defendants, Kapowsin Meats, just yesterday issued a recall of about 120 thousand pounds of whole hogs following identification of 134 sickened with a rare strain of Salmonella I 4, [5],12:i:-. According to Washington State and FSIS health inspectors, samples of pork taken from Kapowsin Meats production tested positive for that rare strain of Salmonella.
The lawsuit was filed in Pierce County on behalf of Tiffany and Naylyn Guiles, after Naylyn (who is only 19 months old) became very ill and was hospitalized after eating bits of roasted whole hog served at a celebration. She was one of about 18 individuals who were sickened after being served pork from a whole roasted hog purchased from Stewart’s Meats, another defendant. The party was on Sunday, June 28th, and Naylyn became violently ill on Monday, June 29th.
After receiving a frantic phone call from the day care center, Tiffany took Naylyn to a local Urgent Care Center where she was treated and released. Quickly thereafter, Naylyn’s condition deteriorated and Tiffany was compelled to take her to Providence St. Peter Hospital where attending physicians treated Naylyn for a high fever, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, malaise, dehydration, chills, and dry lips and sunken eyes. Doctors treated her aggressively in the pediatric ward of the hospital, running many tests and administering IV fluids over several days. On July 3rd, the attending physician discharged Naylyn while a stool test was pending. The stool culture returned two days later, revealing the growth of Salmonella I 4, [5],12:i:-, confirming that Naylyn was a part of the Washington Salmonella Outbreak linked to whole roasted hogs and linked back to Defendant Kapowsin Meats.
For more information about this or any other food borne illness outbreak, call the food poisoning lawyers at Ron Simon & Associates at 1-888-335-4901.
