I worked in food manufacturing for over 7 years so know how easy it is to lose site of some things, but basic quality assurance procedures should catch this stuff. Hopefully their next USDA audit will be a bit more thorough.
Leave it some manure mining plainiff attorney to file suit before they even knows the facts. And what’s with asking for monetary compensation for everyone who “purchased” the product. Being compensated for getting sick is one thing, but there are no damages (save the cost of the product) if you didn’t use it. Another issue people need to consider is e-coli infection can easily be prevented by COOKING MEAT THOROUGHLY. All it takes is putting too many burgers on a grill and the edge of one to be out of the heat pattern. Or serving them before they’re thoroughly cooked because you’re family is impatient. A little common sense and patience would go a long way. Instead of wishing and hoping you can just buy food products and expect 100% purity is ridiculous, especially with animal products. I’m not surprised this was filed in the great state of NJ (I live there), one of the most litigious places on the planet. Topps is a very reputable grocer in the Northeast and it may be possible everything was done correctly but this batch slipped through. So let’s file a class action suit that will make the attorneys rich and produce minimal compensation to the very few people affected. Great world we live in.
This is so predictable it almost has reached the level of a cliche. This country has gone mad with greed, and these smarmy, low-life scumbag attorneys salivate at the prospect of class action lawsuits. The only other thing that makes their greed-meter rise is “Bad Faith”. And the FDA is available to them to prove their case for them. I’m sure the scum is queueing up even as this is written to file their class actions against any U.S. manufacturer (Mattell or Sherwin Williams) of any product subject to recall. No one needs to prove damages in these cases. All one needs is to properly paint the members of the class as victims to a jury and the attorneys enjoy a huge payday while the members of the class each get a coupon for a free pound of hamburger.
I’d go for medical bills for those that had to go to the hospital. Otherwise it’s a generic case of food poisoning and the most that would be handed out is a coupon for more meat. Nothing to sue here – move along.
No who knows, they don’t deserve anything. BFD if they got diahrrea or puked for a day or two. That’s life and move on. They certainly do not deserve $$$ in the thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions and the businesses that merely distributed (and unknowingly I might add) the “tainted” product should not be sued. You’re so typical of the entitlement/ “me” generation that’s is sickening.
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I worked in food manufacturing for over 7 years so know how easy it is to lose site of some things, but basic quality assurance procedures should catch this stuff. Hopefully their next USDA audit will be a bit more thorough.
Leave it some manure mining plainiff attorney to file suit before they even knows the facts. And what’s with asking for monetary compensation for everyone who “purchased” the product. Being compensated for getting sick is one thing, but there are no damages (save the cost of the product) if you didn’t use it. Another issue people need to consider is e-coli infection can easily be prevented by COOKING MEAT THOROUGHLY. All it takes is putting too many burgers on a grill and the edge of one to be out of the heat pattern. Or serving them before they’re thoroughly cooked because you’re family is impatient. A little common sense and patience would go a long way. Instead of wishing and hoping you can just buy food products and expect 100% purity is ridiculous, especially with animal products. I’m not surprised this was filed in the great state of NJ (I live there), one of the most litigious places on the planet. Topps is a very reputable grocer in the Northeast and it may be possible everything was done correctly but this batch slipped through. So let’s file a class action suit that will make the attorneys rich and produce minimal compensation to the very few people affected. Great world we live in.
Maybe Wal-Mart could ship some of that stuff to China?
This is so predictable it almost has reached the level of a cliche. This country has gone mad with greed, and these smarmy, low-life scumbag attorneys salivate at the prospect of class action lawsuits. The only other thing that makes their greed-meter rise is “Bad Faith”. And the FDA is available to them to prove their case for them. I’m sure the scum is queueing up even as this is written to file their class actions against any U.S. manufacturer (Mattell or Sherwin Williams) of any product subject to recall. No one needs to prove damages in these cases. All one needs is to properly paint the members of the class as victims to a jury and the attorneys enjoy a huge payday while the members of the class each get a coupon for a free pound of hamburger.
The supermarket should have complete immunity from B.S. lawsuits like this.
What about the people who really did get sick? Don’t they deserve something?
Send them a can o’mouse beans, that should cure it.
It was announced today
I’d go for medical bills for those that had to go to the hospital. Otherwise it’s a generic case of food poisoning and the most that would be handed out is a coupon for more meat. Nothing to sue here – move along.
No who knows, they don’t deserve anything. BFD if they got diahrrea or puked for a day or two. That’s life and move on. They certainly do not deserve $$$ in the thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions and the businesses that merely distributed (and unknowingly I might add) the “tainted” product should not be sued. You’re so typical of the entitlement/ “me” generation that’s is sickening.