American food safety law firm PritzkerOlsen is suing Barber Foods for supplying frozen, breaded Chicken Kiev product contaminated with salmonella.
The law firm filed a lawsuit against Barber Foods on behalf of a person who had salmonella food poisoning due to consumption of Barber Foods's Chicken Kiev product.
The lawsuit claims that the plaintiff began suffering severe gastroenteritis, which included diarrhea, abdominal cramping, fever, chills and headache, all symptoms of salmonella poisoning soon after consuming the Chicken Kiev product.
PritzkerOlsen attorney Ryan Osterholm said: "The manufacturers of Chicken Kiev and other similar frozen chicken products are in denial about how dangerous their products can be.
"This is not the first outbreak linked to these products and won't be the last unless the industry makes real changes."
The Minnesota Department of Health tested the salmonella sample obtained from plaintiff and found that the sample was positive for Salmonella Enteritidis.
The genetic testing also found that the plaintiff had contracted the same genetic strain associated with an outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis infections linked to Barber Foods Chicken Kiev.
Earlier this month, Barber Foods recalled 1,707,494 pounds of frozen, raw stuffed chicken products over salmonella contamination.
