Suit Over Tainted Peanut Butter Spreads to Kellogg Co.

Marler Clark, the Seattle law firm that filed the first lawsuit over the recent salmonella outbreak in certain brands of peanut butter products, has added the Kellogg Co. as a defendant. The suit was filed last month on behalf of a couple whose 7-year-old son became sick after eating peanut butter cracker sandwiches made by Kellogg from products of the Peanut Corp. of America, whose Georgia plant has been identified as the source of the contamination that led to the outbreak. Read more…