Botulism in the Formula, Cyclospora in the Lettuce, Salmonella in the Jalapeños. Marler Clark Has Filed Four Complaints, and in each the Pathogen Came in With an Ingredient
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BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash., Aug. 13, 2026
Chughtai v. ByHeart, Inc., Target Corporation, Organic West Milk, Inc. and Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. (W.D. Wash., No. 2:26-cv-02798-LK) • Galindo v. ByHeart, Inc. and others (Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, No. 26TRCV02889) • Bogard v. ABTB Louisville LLC, Taylor Fresh Foods, Inc. and Taylor Farms California, Inc. (W.D. Ky., No. 3:26-cv-00607-RGJ) • Nance v. Coast Citrus Distributors, LLC (C.D. Ill., Springfield Division)BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash., Aug. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Marler Clark, The Food Safety Law Firm, has filed four foodborne illness complaints in three federal courts and one California state court. The plaintiffs are a Los Angeles County infant girl whose illness is the earliest in the entire ByHeart outbreak, a Bothell, Washington toddler who spent thirty-eight days in a hospital before his first birthday, a sixty-eight-year-old Louisville man with a five-vessel bypass and a prior stroke, and an Illinois food service worker who was ordered off the job by her county health department. Three pathogens, three supply chains, four families. What the cases have in common is that none of these people had any dealing with the company whose product made them sick. In each one the contamination came in upstream, in an ingredient: whole milk powder into a can of infant formula, shredded iceberg lettuce into a burrito box, jalapeño peppers into a bowl at a chain restaurant.
