Defense attorney Martin Levinson of Hawkins Parnell & Young was recently successful in securing a summary judgment in favor of his client, Frito-Lay, in a case of allegedly suspect salsa.

According to Levinson, his client weathered the dispute, in which a plaintiff alleged her Tostitos salsa was contaminated by ergot (a rare fungus notoriously blamed for the Salem Witch Trials), on the strength of expert testimony, and by breaking the link of proximate cause between the food and asserted injury.

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