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Diane Hurtado is still suffering because of the tainted pork she ate last spring.
"I've had a lot of pain in like my knees and my ankles and my back," said Hurtado. "It's not just a stomach ache."
Hurtado is one of more than 130 people who ate tainted pork that was traced back to Kapowsin Meats.
The pork was sold in Washington, Oregon and Alaska, over three months beginning last April.
It took several days after she ate the pork for the 60-year-old Hurtado to develop symptoms.
"I was nauseated, throwing up," said Hurtado.
Initially, neither she nor the professionals knew what she had.
"I didn't realize the funny color to my urine was actually blood which shouldn't have been there," Hurtado said. "They thought it was from my kidneys. And my liver was affected. And I actually couldn't sleep, even though I was really under the weather, because of the pain.
"Later,” said Hurtado. “It turned out to be salmonella. I was very sick."
Hurtado bought the pork at Uwajimaya, one of more than 50 grocers in the state of Washington that used to sell Kapowsin meats.
None of those grocers is being sued.
In fact, Hurtado says she still buys her meat at Uwajimaya, "because I know it's not from Kapowsin and I can see how clean they are,” she said.
She is suing to warn others.
“Everyone wants to think they can control everything using all the practices they were taught to stay safe and you can't," Hurtado said.
This is the fifth lawsuit a Seattle firm has filed against Kapowsin Meats.
After the recall, the company voluntarily suspended work at its Graham facility.
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