Hyglos Honored With 2010 Food Safety Innovation Award for Technology Used in bioMerieux's VIDAS® UP E. coli O157 (Including H7)
MARCY-L'ETOILE, France and REGENSBURG, Germany, July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- bioMerieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, and Hyglos GmbH, the leader in applied phage protein technology, today announced that a team of scientists who developed a new diagnostic tool for food microbiologists is the recipient of the 2010 Food Safety Innovation Award given by the International Association of Food Protection (IAFP).

New York Man Files E. coli Lawsuit Against Taco Bell
Marler Clark, the Seattle E. coli lawyers, filed a lawsuit Monday against Taco Bell and Ready Pac Produce. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a Utica, New York, resident who became ill with an E. coli O157:H7 infection and was hospitalized after eating at Taco Bell.

First Suit Filed Against UFG by E. Coli Victim
The lawsuit was filed against UFG by Seattle-based Marler Clark and San Diego-based Gordon and Holmes on behalf of Lawrence Fournier and Cynthia Centura of Hemet, California, whose four-year-old daughter, Lauren, became ill with an E. coli infection and was hospitalized with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a severe, life-threatening complication of E. coli infection that can lead to kidney failure, allegedly after eating UFG ground beef.