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Stop & Shop faces food-poisoning lawsuit



Boston Business Journal

July 10, 2006



A New Hampshire couple has filed a personal injury lawsuit against supermarket chain Stop & Shop, alleging that their 8-year-old son was poisoned by E. coli after eating ground beef purchased at a store in Manchester, N.H.



No one from Stop & Shop, a division of Royal Ahold, was immediately available for comment.



The lawsuit against the Quincy, Mass.-based chain was filed July 6 in federal court in Concord, N.H. The parents, John and Christina Tsirovakas of Epsom, are being represented by Seattle law firm Marler Clark.



According to Marler Clark, the Tsirovakases' son Eric was stricken by E. coli and hospitalized in September 2005. The family accumulated medical bills of over $100,000, Marler Clark said.





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What if it was you or your child?

Should meat plant inspections be carried out and should the results be posted just as Health Inspections on resturaunts are? In our area the news even posts these health inspection scores on the newscast occasionally. Should we trust the HACCP test yourself method with no results of independent government oversight?

What if it was your child?

The possiblility exists that this particular strain of ecoli did not come from the packer but came from the local store or from anyone in the food chain that did not follow proper food handling procedures. How will we know it did not come from the packer if we do not do independent testing? Should we have the don't ask, don't tell policy by the USDA food safety regulators?

How many food recalls were not recalled completely?
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