Food Safety News and yours truly received a nice “Shout-out” from Mark Bittman of the New York Times today as to things he is thankful for:
17. And to Bill Marler, who, as the leading food safety attorney in the country, is trying to keep the things we grow from killing us. Check out
It was reported this week that Daxing District People’s Court of China convicted Zhao Lianhai for disturbing the social order during the tainted-milk scandal in 2008, sentencing him to two-and-a-half years in prison. Zhao’s own four-year-old son became sick after consuming milk-containing melamine, which is used in plastics and fertilizer production. In 2008, melamine-tainted milk
One of the latest Harris public opinion polls puts attorneys way down at the bottom of the list of respected professions with members of congress, car salesmen — and, yes, journalists. So, I am using that to consumers’ advantage in my speeches to food manufacturers:
“If you hate lawyers, don’t poison your customers,” Bill Marler
Its not everyday that your 7th grader asks you to speak at her school’s science class. Since she is almost a teenager I jumped at the chance before I become an embarrassment.
Some of my comments below have sparked a debate that needs to be had. Should grocery stores be responsible for the food they sell? If the manufacturer is from outside the United States or bankrupt, should the wholesaler and retailer be responsible for injuries caused by the product sold? Or, should the customer be without
The below PowerPoint goes aling with this short paper – The Reality of Proving a Foodborne Illness Case Separating the Wheat from the Chaff:
As of a few days ago, this listeria cantaloupe outbreak has become the deadliest foodborne illness outbreak in 100 years. Yet, congress is silent.
As you might recall, the FDA, along with Colorado state officials, conducted an inspection at Jensen Farms and collected multiple samples, including whole cantaloupes and environmental (non-product) samples from within
I am still in New York (which by the way got hit with a freak October snowstorm – that included thunder and lightening), after being on a food safety panel at Grand Central Station as part of Consumer Report’s 75th anniversary on Friday. After the panel, I got to meet with the son of a
I had a chance to talk with Tim Linden of Produce News Daily about where this Cantaloupe mess is headed:
Bill Marler, a prominent Seattle-based attorney known for his involvement in food-safety litigation, has filed seven lawsuits and currently represents at least two dozen individuals or families of people who have become sick or have
Don’t hold your breath on it.
Jensen Farms received an FDA “Warning Letter” yesterday after its and Frontera’s cantaloupe had been linked to 123 illnesses with 25 deaths. Interesting, despite my post of late last night “It is PAST Time to prosecute those who poison“, I missed this line in the letter:
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