Your case has been advancing along many fronts simultaneously.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
On April 5, 2007, our law firm co-hosted a meeting in Atlanta on the case. Twenty-five other lawyers from around the country met to conduct mutual introductions, strategize and enter into some mutual expert sharing/mutual information sharing relationships. The meeting lasted several hours. Mr. Orlando presented a talk regarding lab testing protocols. From an informal polling it appears that our team has met with the highest rate of positive salmonella test cultures, in part, because of the testing protocols established by your lawyers and retained epidemiology experts. Other groups were testing under the FDA guidelines which failed to produce results to the level we have found. Although our manner is slightly more costly, our current positive rate is 40%, but again we caution that a negative result does not mean that salmonella was not present in your product at one time. Our talks are scheduled to continue today with ConAgra concerning the full extent of necessary testing; that is, to what level is a proof positive necessary to satisfy ConAgra’s need to establish a salmonella positive product result for settlement or litigation purposes.
Plant inspections began yesterday, but take place in earnest this coming Friday, April 13, 2007. Our inspection will combine with experts from various disciplines, including epidemiology, structural engineering, plant hygiene specialists and videographers - some supplied by us, others by other peanut butter law groups around the country. We are meeting beforehand in Albany, Georgia and on Friday morning make the short drive over to Sylvester. There, careful inspection of the ConAgra plant’s conditions, the roof, sprinkler system and machinery will take place. We have held off the full inspection until Friday - as opposed to Monday - as one of your lawyers, David Karnas [Bellovin & Karnas, P.C., Tucson, Arizona], compiled an exacting list of plant blueprints and documents necessary for a complete plant evaluation and ConAgra is unable to produce all these documents until today or tomorrow. Accordingly, we have some doubts as to the efficacy of Monday’s inspection which was conducted by another law group handling cases and not by us.
We would like to take a moment to thank even more lawyers and law firms who have recognized our expertise in referring cases over to our firm for handling. We welcome those new clients to our website and invite you to call with any specific questions you may have.
REPEAT WARNING:
We wish to remind you again not to freeze your peanut butter or expose it to direct sunlight or extreme temperatures. Also, do not mail or otherwise ship your remaining peanut butter to us (or bring it on an airplane) as this may subject your sample to x-ray inspection which potentially could destroy evidence of the presence of salmonella. All of our samples are shipped in labeled biological specimen, appropriately coded Federal Express packaging to assure that the contents are not x-rayed.
As always, thank you for your confidence in entrusting this most important
matter to us for handling.
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