According to the ABA Journal – These are the 100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal.
The ABA’s readers clued them in to a few law blogs they had never seen before, and you’ll find them among the 40 blawgs that are new to the
Consumer Reports published – How safe is that chicken?
Among the findings:
• Campylobacter was in 62 percent of the chickens, salmonella was in 14 percent, and both bacteria were in 9 percent. Only 34 percent of the birds were clear of both pathogens. That’s double the percentage of clean birds we found in our
The New York Times reporter, Edward Wong, reported a few hours ago that a hearing began Friday (our Thursday) in the first civil suit to be heard in a Chinese court involving parents suing a dairy company and a supermarket over selling tainted milk.
In 2008 at least six children died and 300,000 were sickened
A friend sent me the below YouTube videos of Larry King’s visit with me and the mothers, and one grandmother, of children killed from eating E. coli O157:H7-tainted hamburger that ran last month. This first video – the first ten minutes of the show – it then got a bit off-track as the hour went
I took the time today to read the Seattle Times article by Maureen O’Hagan, “Seattle lawyer turns into healthy food crusader,” and I was struck by a discussion I had with the reporter:
Marler, … says he and his firm, Marler Clark, have pried $500 million in settlements out of companies that have sickened customers.
State health departments, CDC, and the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) are investigating a multi-state outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections. On October 31, 2009, FSIS issued a notice about a recall of approximately 545,699 pounds of ground beef products from Fairbank Farms that may be contaminated with E.
The big news in China after I got home from this year’s China Food Safety Conference is "Pair Executed Over China Tainted Baby Milk" that is running in paper’s around the world this morning (not actual photo):
Two men have been executed for their part in China’s tainted milk scandal. Both men faced a firing
"There’s plenty of people in the meat industry who, if they looked in the rearview mirror and saw they accidentally ran over Bill Marler, they’d put the car in reverse and make sure," said David Theno, a food-safety expert hired to revamp Jack in the Box after the outbreak.
Theno, it should be noted, considers
Here in Seattle we are down to one major daily, and every once in awhile they step up and do an interesting article or two. In the Pacific Northwest weekend magazine published by the Times is an article, "The Green Issue: Our Food, Ourselves," which I can not seem to find online. There are a
