Marler Blog - Listeria Victims and Their Families are the Real Heroes in the Whittier Farms Investigation - Comments http://www.marlerblog.com/ Food Poisoning Lawyer & Attorney : Bill Marler : Marler Clark en Copyright 2012 Wed, 16 May 2012 05:16:54 -0800 Wed, 16 May 2012 05:16:54 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Diane Reifschneider Mr. Marler, count me among those concerned with discovering what your "issues associated with raw milk" seem to be. After all, you have not only threatened my only source of healing-grade, grass-fed raw colostrum for me and my rescue animals, but you have also threatened the kindly older couple who own the health food store where I buy it. Ray and Carol Clark never hurt you or anyone else, but you're hoping to financially ruin them! Unlike Kaiser, whom you have chosen not to threaten, Mr. & Mrs. Clark did not subject anyone's child to antibiotics in direct violation of doctors' orders, thereby making that child's risk of developing HUS 17.3 times more likely. Your selection of stores, not doctors, as defendants certainly gives the strange appearance that you have a commercial interest in intimidating stores away from carrying fresh unprocessed milk that competes side-by-side with processed milk.

Meanwhile, you may wish to reconsider your position concerning this latest lethal pasteurized milk outbreak caused by Listeria (presumably Listeria monocytogenes). You state as though it were a fact that "in every one of the outbreaks, the contamination occurred because of a failure in the pasteurization process (heat too low) or in contamination post-pasteurization (contamination at bottling or additives)."

Instead of extolling the virtues of pasteurization as a substitute for 21st century direct pathogen detection technologies, you should ask government employees Dr. Alfred DeMaria, Jr., and John F. Sheehan (with whom you are surely acquainted) to provide you with thermal tolerance profile data for Listeria monocytogenes in milk. Demand exact temperature and time data. Next, compare that data for Listeria monocytogenes to the time and temperatures to which milk is subjected in standard industrial "pasteurization" heat damage treatments.

Your adversaries' expert witnesses are going to have these numbers and will be able to tell your jury whether or not Listeria monocytogenes survives pasteurization heat treatments.

]]> http://www.marlerblog.com/legal-cases/listeria-victims-and-their-families-are-the-real-heroes-in-the-whittier-farms-investigation/#7856 http://www.marlerblog.com/legal-cases/listeria-victims-and-their-families-are-the-real-heroes-in-the-whittier-farms-investigation/#7856 Legal Cases Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:42:10 -0800 marler@marlerclark.com (Listeria Attorney)