Georgia woman sues in response to E. coli outbreak linked to carrots

Grimmway Farms has recalled its organic carrots after health officials linked them to an E. coli outbreak. A woman who was hospitalized sued the company this week.

Melinda Pratt had been buying the same brand of organic carrots for years: Bunny Luv by Grimmway Farms.

Pratt, 40, a mother of three in Savannah, Georgia, said she most recently bought the brand’s whole carrots from her local Sam’s Club on Sept. 30.

After she ate them, she said, she began experiencing bloody diarrhea and stomach pain that felt like “somebody getting stabbed in the stomach repeatedly and not stopping.” Her symptoms also included nausea and vomiting, Pratt said, adding that she was the only one in her household who ate the carrots.

“I genuinely thought at some point that I was slowly dying,” she said.

A couple weeks later, she was hospitalized for three days with an E. coli infection. Pratt sued Grimmway Farms on Monday. The company recalled batches of organic whole and baby carrots Saturday after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined that the products were most likely linked to a multistate E. coli outbreak.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/recall/carrots-e-coli-recall-lawsuit-grimmway-farms-rcna180781

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