I just finished a day at the Louvre, walking along the Seine and trying to find the French I learned in college, as I ordered a meal with my daughter at a cafe on a busy avenue. I then was brought back to what Spring is really all about – another Cantaloupe recall due to
“Blaming The Victim” Strategy Remains In Food Industry’s Playbook
I do not want to be accused of speaking ill of American Industry while being on foreign soil, but in reading the New York Times and today’s story titled “Increasingly, Food Companies Cannot Guarantee Safety” by Michael Moss, it makes it clear that the U.S. food industry cannot get off its “blame the consumer”
VTEC Conference – E. coli O157:H7 and other STEC’s and VTEC’s
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Bruce Clark, my law partner and Patti Waller, my Epidemiologist, were in Argentina this week. The conference topics were:
– STEC/VTEC epidemiology from around the world
– Reservoirs. Sources and routes of transmission
– Pathogenesis. Host response to STEC/VTEC infections. Animal models of HUS
– Virulence factors. Genomics
– Clinical and diagnostic aspects of STEC/VTEC
Royal Institute of Public Health
One of the "good news, bad news" of sleeping few hours at odd times is that jet lag has very little impact on you. It is 11:36 PM here in "jolly olde England" and 3:26 PM in Seattle, Folks at the office are about to head to the Starbucks (they are on every block here in
Safe Food at the House of Lords
I had dinner tonight with Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior and a dozen others, including my 14 year old daughter Olivia, in one of the House of Lords dining chambers. The whole place reminded me a bit of Hogwarts out of Harry Potter. The food below was adequate, not fancy, but likely safe, as most
French Food Safety News – Carrefour in Court for Labeling and Food Safety Issues
I am going to take a side trip to Paris for a couple of days after the Food Safety Conference here in London and the news that French supermarket giant Carrefour has been accused of violating a number of regulations related to the labeling and food safety of meat products caught my eye. Carrefour has
Marler, Honored, Blessed, Hard Work or Just Damn Lucky?
Poor Bill Baldwin of Forbes – his Editorial “Needed: Tort Lawyers” in this week’s Forbes – has been printed and reprinted on other lawyer blogs and websites to tout their bona fides as food lawyers. Funny thing, all of them missed this part of Mr. Baldwin’s editorial:
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Meet William Marler, a 52-year-old Seattle attorney
I Put a Number of My Favorite Food “Gross-Out” Stories Over at www.foodpoisonblog.com
Over the years we have heard of too many food "gross-out" stories to recall them all. Honestly, we have taken on none of them as clients. I posted several of my favorites over at www.foodpoisonblog.com. However, this one is by far my favorite (click below to download):
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In the Footsteps of John Snow, MD
Off to London Sunday and plan to revisit the site of what many consider to be the birth of Epidemiology – SOHO, the Broad Street Pump and the works of Dr. John Snow, who in 1854 determined that the cholera outbreak sweeping the area was related to the water coming from the Broad Street Pump.
Michelle Obama and Staff Go for Burgers – Inspection Reports Not Online
A few days after the President and Vice President ordered and ate burgers in Arlington Virginia, the First Lady and her staff ate burgers at Good Stuff Eatery, 303 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20003.
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Unlike with the President’s burger binge, the First Lady’s was not caught on video nor was the “doneness” of her