From Scott Greenfield over at Simple Justice – A New York Criminal Defense Blog:
In a recent post, products liability lawyer Bill Marler wrote about his adversary in a case making a presentation to an industry group that used him, his face, his name, an image of a pile of money and a lawyer chasing
I was able to access a letter to Congress from the following PR hacks of some in the food industry:
American Bakers Association, American Frozen Food Institute, American Meat Institute, Frozen Potato Products Institute, Independent Bakers Association, International Bottled Water Association, National Chicken Council, National Confectioners Association, National Fisheries Institute, National Frozen Pizza Institute, National
Coming to your favorite bookstore this spring is a well-written tale by author Jeff Benedict about the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli Outbreak that rocked the fast food and beef industries and launched the career of one young trial lawyer.
Although I lived through much of this (18 years ago), I learned a
On March 22, I’ll be heading to Denver for the Food Defense Summit, a.k.a. “The summit created by food manufacturing executives, for food manufacturing executives” to give my perspective on keeping their businesses out of lawsuits – or as I like to call it: safer food production.
My mom and dad were both public employee union teachers. They worked hard all their lives teaching kids and young adults. My brother is a union plumber. In honor of my parents, my brother and Wisconsin and other state union workers who are fighting for their rights, I am closing my law firm early on
Although it seems like I just landed from Istanbul, I am off this Firday to California to give a talk on Saturday to a meeting of the Northern California American Society for Microbiology on “Separating the Wheat from the Chaff – How we do what we do and use science to do it!”
Not thoughts so much as the visual experience of the people and the markets. Some food I purchased (spices), and some food I just took pictures of:
The FDA posts company prepared press releases each time there is a recall of product – whether there are illnesses or not.
Hazelnut E. coli O157:H7
In the case if DeFranco Hazelnuts, the company proudly notes that the recall is “voluntarily,” although was prompted, “after the nut products were linked to 7 illnesses
Three years after a Salmonella outbreak, first linked to United States Tomatoes and then Mexican Peppers, that sickened about 1,500 people and claimed two lives, U.S. epidemiologists have learned that speed is of the essence in identifying sources of food contamination and preventing further infection. However, in an editorial accompanying the paper in the February
Checking in to the Burj Al Arab at 11:00 PM Friday after a flight from Seattle to Atlanta and Atlanta to Dubai, left me a few more hours to tweak by Power Point for my lunch time speech at the Dubai Food Safety Conference on Monday.
Hopefully, the attendees will be paying attention to my
