With four dead and nearly 200 injured, many seriously, many still hospitalized, last week’s bombing in Boston has been yet another horrific reminder of how vulnerable we can be. I… Continue Reading
Best of Bill Marler
Foodborne Illness Rates Continue to Fall – And, that is a Good Thing
Work at Marler Clark has been a bit slower in both 2011 and 2012 – and, that really is a good thing. Less work translates into less illnesses – and,… Continue Reading
Mike Taylor and the myth of Monsanto’s Man
I have known of Mike Taylor since shortly after September 29, 1994. As Food Safety News reported in “Looking Back: The Story Behind Banning E. Coli O157:H7,” Taylor took the… Continue Reading
I got called out on Twitter at #AHCJ13 – and rightly so!
I had just finished my part of the panel presentation entitled, “Why is food still making us sick in the 21st century,” when I was checking my Twitter feed and this… Continue Reading
1998 Outbreak of E coli O157:H7 at Finley Elementary School – Epidemiology and Environmental Science Working Well Together
This E. coli O157:H7 outbreak cost a school district $6,100,000. On Thursday, October 15 the Benton-Franklin Health Department (BFHD) was notified of two hospitalized children at Kennewick General Hospital with… Continue Reading
Federal Grand jury Indicts Five in connection with 2009 Salmonella Outbreak
My favorite quote of the day (AP): Bill Marler, an attorney who represented many of the victims in the peanut case, has specialized in food safety law for 20 years…. Continue Reading
FSIS’s and Foster Farms’ Reason for NOT Recalling Salmonella Chicken: “Shit Happens!”
I had lunch with an old friend (now days, all my friends are) yesterday who asked me why Foster Farms and the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection… Continue Reading
Could Horsemeat (and Kangaroo meat) get into the US Food Supply – Too late, already did
Well, 32 years ago. Here is the story – straight from the “horses mouth:” During 1981, an incident involving the importation of mislabeled and adulterated meat from Australia resulted in… Continue Reading
A Beef Company More Interested in Litigation than Food Safety
This is another it what will be a long – too long – series of outbreak investigations where we have represented consumers in what I hope will be a cautionary… Continue Reading
Topps Meat E. coli – Two Strikes You’re Out!
Strike 1. On September 7, 2005, the Albany County Health Department (ACHD) was notified that a child was hospitalized with a diagnosis of hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). Preliminary laboratory testing… Continue Reading