wright county egg company

FOOD POSIONING

PROFESSOR: SINH NGUYEN

CLASS: VISK2013 A

INTRODUCTION

FACTS

FACTS & ISSUE

RULES AND APPLICATION

CONCLUSION AND

SUMMARY

Phung Thi thuy linh

Lan Anh

Tuan Anh

Nguyen Hoang Han

Minh Chau

IntroductionProduct liability

Strict liability (do not need to prove)

By the concept of strict liability, people who attend activities

must have responsibility for harm

Stores and companies that produce products, have to have

responsibility for result when customers bare bad result from

those products

Stream of commerce

PRODUCT LIABILITYStream of commerce

Licensor ManufacturesDistributors

(Warehouses)

Supplier

Wholesalers

Retailer

Stream of commerce theory refers to a

principle that permits a state to exercise

personal jurisdiction over a defendant is the

defendant places a product in the general

market

Facts

From 13/8/2010: an investigation and approval at the production

facilities of Wright County Egg.

Until 25/08/2010, 1400 people in the US were salmonella pathogens toxic harm by eating eggs.

Symptoms are stomach ache, high fever within 8 to 72 hours after

eating food containing the bacteria.

One of the first lawsuits began, Iowa, on behalf of Jacqueline Shea

Holt of Newbury Park, Calif.

facts

Wright County Egg company in Galt, Iowa,

United States was undertaking a massive

recall 338 million eggs produced on their

farms from around the world after discovering

they can contain salmonella pathogens toxic

harm.

The product was distributed among stage

such as Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska,

Nevada, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma,

Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and

Wisconsin.

RULES

Product liability

Strict liability Stream of

commerce

large-scale egg producers

Safety rules

Use refrigeration

No cracked eggs

Keep clean

Adopt

preventive

measures

Test regularly

APPLICATION 7

HEALTH VIOLATION

uncaged BIRDS

climbing

MANURE piles

UNsealed rodent

BURROWS

MICE/ RATS

FLIES

MAGGOTS

APPLICATION 8

REPACKED

Jack Decoster

squalid

conditions

CONCLUSION

The owners of an Iowa egg company have agreed to pay $7 million

as part of a federal criminal case scheduled.

The largest of three settlements made public was $250,000 for a 3-year-old boy.

Austin “Jack” DeCoster, 79, and Peter DeCoster, 50, were charged

with introducing adulterated food into interstate commerce, a

misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail.

Quality Egg faces the misdemeanor charge, as well as felonies.

The company has agreed to pay a $6.69 million fine as part of a plea agreement. Each DeCoster would pay another $100,000 and

the company faces a $10,000 forfeiture, documents state.

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