So, what are adequate consumer warnings on bottles of Raw Milk? What if you contrast it to blog posts and videos by the manufacturer touting the miraculous benefits of Raw Milk? What about the endorsements by Weston Price (goodness – exposure to liability there)? Raw Milk, like any food product – If a manufacturer wants
Washinton State University – A place where speaking your mind is encouraged – Michael Pollan will be coming.
I knew it was the economic pressures that public education is facing and not any political pressure that caused the change in the reading of Omnivore’s Dilemma and Michael Pollan’s visit to Pullman. The WSU I graduated from and served, would not bend to that kind of small mindlessness. As I said to a reporter:
Washington State University – Say It Isn’t So. Hey, Michael Pollan, I’ll Pay Your Way to Pullman
Let me put this in context. I am a “Coug” – through and through. I went to Washington State University, getting degrees in Political Science, Economics and English in 1982. I served four years on the Pullman City Council (first student, and at 19, the youngest ever). I received an “outstanding alumni award” in 1996
Food Safety Speaking Tours in the Last Year – No wonder I have so many frequent flyer miles!
Over the last several years, other members of the firm and I spend nearly as much time speaking out on safe food as we do litigating food poisoning cases. Here is a partial list of places I have been in the last several months. In part we try and explain how and why we do
Parent Food Safety Guide for E. coli
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Wannabe California Lieutenant Governor Florez has Time to Suck Teat of Raw Milk?
California’s budget is a mess – what a minus $20B or so? And, Senator Florez has time to write a letter to beat up on public servants who are doing their job trying to protect the public?
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(click on above) – Perhaps Senator Florez should do his job and protect the public from the sale
Institute of Food Technologists’ Annual Meeting – Hot Topic – Irradiation of Leafy Greens
I’m heading to the Institute of Food Technologists’ Annual Meeting in California in a few weeks to talk about Leafy Greens and Food Irradiation – Pros and Cons. In addition to the below PowerPoint, I will be handing out my DRAFT Publication “Pros and Cons of Commercial Irradiation of Fresh Iceberg Lettuce and Fresh Spinach:
President’s Food Safety Working Group – Website
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Food Fight – Insurance Issues in Food Poisoning Cases
I am off to New York in the next few weeks to meet the the Excess/Surplus Lines Claims Association and Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel to sit on a panel of folks discussing insurance issues and how they relate in food poisoning claims. I am going to open with a few slides on an
E. coli O157:H7, the Impact and the Prognosis Features of Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS)
Overview of Medical Impacts of E. coli O157:H7
After a susceptible individual ingests a sufficient quantity of E. coli O157:H7, the bacteria attach to the inside surface of the large intestine and initiate an inflammatory reaction. This reaction is believed to be due to chemicals secreted by the bacteria, and results in the bloody diarrhea