Food Health Consults
I have worked in numerous countries across the globe setting up policies, regulations and HACCP for manufacturing.
Expert Witness
During my career but mostly since leaving the Canadian government and entering academia, I have been expert witness in 22 cases in both the U.S. and Canada where foodborne disease has occurred in one or more plaintiffs. He has testified on the behalf of these plaintiffs who have suffered from E. coli O157:H7 (8), Campylobacter (1), Salmonella (1), Shigella (1), ciguatoxin [fish poison] (1), yeast (1), unknown agents (2).
22 cases as expert witness for the plaintiff, 13 cases settled in favor of the plaintiff, and one settled for the defendant (all but one in favor of the side with E. Todd as expert witness), and one case I survived a Daubert judgment as an expert witness in an appeal and the Clinton San Francisco v. Wendy’s case was settled.
Specifics
1983. General Bakeries vs. Galati in respect to illness resulting from bread contaminated by yeast. April-December, 1983. (government expert). (unknown decision).
1985. Dietitians group v. Hyatt Regency Hotel, Montreal, May 6, 1985. (government expert). (unknown decision).
September-December, 1992. Koozer v. Denny’s Inc., West Palm Beach, Florida,
Jon Seifert of Goethel & Seifert 215 Third Avenue W Durand, Wisconsin.(government expert). (unknown decision).
May-August 2000. Howell v. Van Zante Mangement Co., Council Wooten of Wooten, Honeywell and Kest, Orlando, Fl. (plaintiff). (E. coli O157). (unknown decision).
October 2 2000. Johnson v. Merit foods, Inc., d/b/a Admiral Thriftway, Associated Grocers, Inc., IBP, Inc., Excel Corporation Superior Court of Washington, King County No. 99-2-13380-3 SEA. (E. coli O157). Bolton & Carey (plaintiff). (unknown decision).
May 24 2001. RHSCO Enterprises v. TortilleriaAtotonilco(plaintiff). (Unknown toxin)Johnson & Bell, Chicago No. 98 L 13813in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. (settled).
March 31 2003. Trice v. Meijer, Inc. Case No. 00-5155-NP State of Michigan in the Circuit Court for the County of Macomb. (E. coli O157). Ellen Schreuder of Mancini, Schreuder, Kline & Conrad, P. C. of Warren, MI (plaintiff) vs. Thomas Vincent of Plunkett & Cooney, P. C., Bloomfield Hills, MI. (dismissed).
April 8 2003. Hope Young, et al v. IBP, Inc., et al. Medina Common Pleas Case No. 02 CIV 0186. (E. coli O157). Kerry Volsky of Hermann, Cahn & Schneider (plaintiff). (settled).
September 10 2003. Chimenti v. Cooper Street, LLC, Mélange Restaurant, Yoshitaka Ishii, Florida’s Finest Seafood Company, and A Fisherman’s Best, Inc. CT-002930-02 div. 3 Circuit Court of Tennessee for the 30th Judicial District at Memphis. (plaintiff). (Ciguatera). (settled).
June 30, 2003. Cillo v. Resjefal and D. B. Brown (plaintiff) (E. coli O157:H7) Leahy and Johnson, New York. (unknown decision).
August 6, 2004. Kunkle v. Cheesecake Factory. (Campylobacter). Bonn & Wilkins, Phoenix (plaintiff). (settled).
October 3, 2004. Ryan Schrieber v. Emmpak (Peck), Excel, etc. (defendent). (E. coli O157) (settled).
July 21, 2005. Bauder v. Ireland (plaintiff). (E. coli O157). Casey Fundaro, Tripp Scott, Fort Lauderdale. (settled).
April 7, 2005. Clinton San Francisco v. Wendy’s (plaintiff). (E. coli O157). Bucci, Bailey & Javins. Civil Action no. 04-C-1014 in the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia. (settled).
June 21, 2005. Berman v. Brinker International Salmonella (plaintiff). Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard, Chicago, Il Case No. 04 C 4413 (US District Court, Northern District of Illinois). (settled).
January 18, 2005. Kelli Thomas v. H.E.B. (plaintiff). (E. coli O157). Hagood & Neumann, Alvin, Texas. No. 2005-24183. (settled).
June 8, 2006. Doyker v. Sam’s Club, Inc. (plaintiff). (E. coli O157). Docket NO.: HHD-CV 05 4008879 S Superior Court, Tim O’Keefe, attorney. Kenny, O’Keefe & Usseglio, P.C. (settled).
March 8, 2007. Roger and Mary Anderson v. GFC Ventures, LLC (Moe’s Southwest Grill). (plaintiff). (Campylobacter) A.P. Gibbs, attorney. Case No. 07-2431, 13th Judiciary Circuit, Hillsborough County, Florida. Gibbs and Parnell, P.A., Tampa, Florida. (settled).
July 31, 2007. Jordan Willis v Coastal Carolina University. (plaintiff). (Salmonella). Case No. 4:06-CV-1054-TLV, US District Court, South Carolina). Marion Fowler, attorney. Fowler Law Firm, Lake City, South Carolina. (settled).
March 1, 2008. Zachary Manning through his parents Todd and Lynne Manning v. McDonald’s of Nebraska, Inc. (plaintiff). (E. coli O157). Warren Hampton, Hampton and McCleary, Pottstown, PA. Doc. 1031 no. 474. (settled).
March 1, 2008. Nicole Delores Scafo through his parents June Scafo, and June Scafo v. McDonald’s Corp., Flynn Meyer Howard Beach, Inc., Keystone Food Holdings LLC, and Equity Meat Corp. (plaintiff). (E. coli O157). Warren Hampton, Hampton and McCleary, Pottstown, PA. Index no. 26703/03. (settled).
December 9, 2009. Los Angeles Salad Company v. Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia (defendant). (Shigella) Canadian Government. (settled).