National food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen Attorneys is representing the family of a 5-year-old from Auburn, Maine, who was hospitalized with HUS, or hemolytic uremic syndrome, for three weeks. The child ate ground beef processed by Fairbank Farms of Ashville, New York, which recalled 545,699 pounds of ground beef and related products due to the possibility it could be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a standing advisory out to consumers to check their refrigerators and freezers for ground beef products produced by Fairbank Farms and purchased on or after September 15 from a variety of retailers in the Northeast.
