http://www.marlerblog.com/ Food Poisoning Lawyer & Attorney : Bill Marler : Marler Clark en Copyright 2012 Wed, 16 May 2012 04:46:59 -0800 Wed, 16 May 2012 04:46:59 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss When USDA initially introduced the HACCP ideal in the mid-90's, the agency stated the concept rested on two basic pillars: (1) Prevention, and (2) Corrective Actions to Prevent Recurrences. Our recurring outbreaks and recalls reveal that neither of the two of meeting much success. Saddly, when outbreaks and recalls occur, USDA is perfectly comfortable placing "almost" exclusive focus on downstream further processing meat plants, requiring these downline plants to devise protocol which supposedly will prevent their source slaughter providers from ever shipping previously contaminated meat to the downstream facilities in the future. This is a woefully inadequate response by USDA, but one which continues to insulate the biggest slaughter plants from accountability. Until USDA is willing to force the source plants to clean up their act, pathogens will continually be found downstream, as well as in retail meat markets, restaurants, hospitals, nursing homes, and of course, in victimized consumer stomachs. Our primary problem here is not pathogens, but a meat non-inspection system which turns a blind eye towards the source of contamination, prefering to place all blame on unwitting downstream food processing facilities. John Munsell

]]> http://www.marlerblog.com/legal-cases/quotable-quotes-on-food-safety/#8948 http://www.marlerblog.com/legal-cases/quotable-quotes-on-food-safety/#8948 Legal Cases Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:15:15 -0800 marler@marlerclark.com (E. coli Lawyer) Why don't Americans learn how to cook their meat? Maybe Grandma went into the bathroom and forgot to wash her hands. Everyone knows that pork and chicken need to be fully cooked before eating. It is TORT lawyers like yourself that are destroying this country by playing on the uneductating person. Maybe if people would cook their meat to 165 degrees instead of eating everything raw we wouldn't need lawyers like you playing on the weak. Maybe there should be food safety warnings on all red meat labels to educate the public. But that might eliminate the need for you.

]]> http://www.marlerblog.com/legal-cases/quotable-quotes-on-food-safety/#8949 http://www.marlerblog.com/legal-cases/quotable-quotes-on-food-safety/#8949 Legal Cases Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:15:15 -0800 marler@marlerclark.com (E. coli Lawyer)