Welcome to outbreakdatabase.com, a searchable database of illness outbreaks caused by one or more of the following
1. consumption of contaminated foods or beverages,
2. exposure to animals,
3. exposure to contaminated recreational water,
4. person-to-person contact with someone whose illness initiated from animal exposure or consumption of contaminated foods and beverages.
The Centers
Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D., M.P.H., (a.k.a., the god of food safety epidemiology) wrote today in the New England Journal of Medicine – “Foodborne Disease in 2011 — The Rest of the Story” today. Here are the highlights:
So will the Food Safety Modernization Act result in immediate improvements in food safety? The legislation brings long
I heard the fears of the small, local, sustainable, locavore regarding the Food Safety Modernization Act, which is why exclusions for on-farm sales and sales at farmer’s markets, and direct sales to grocery stores and restaurants were added, along with additional protections with the Tester/Hagen Amendment. However, it appears that what some in the movement
Comments on my blog, and other sites I am sure, tend to be made by people who disagree with a point made. My bet is that you seldom hear from people who agree with you (although it has been known to happen). On my blog, I have tried to have a policy of allowing all
For those avid readers of my blog (thanks mom), I have received a few inquires as to the status of the Marler chicken experiment. Here is the update on the six new members of the family. Lupita Margarita, Tonto, Buddha, Buttercup, Shirley and Paula are now producing about five eggs a day. Sydney, my youngest
While I am blogging here at Marler Blog, Dave Babcock, Colin Caywood and Drew Falkenstein are doing the same over at Food Poison Journal.
We think the new platform will add to the great writing being done by some of the other lawyers at Marler Clark.
After a week on the road – first a mediation in San Francisco on the E. coli O157:H7 case of Linda Rivera (who has been hospitalized since May of 2009), then a flight to Washington D.C. for a meeting with the Justice Department about the status of prosecuting PCA President Stewart Parnell, then a client
On February 11th, at the American University Washington College of Law, Salmonella victims and their families will be sharing their stories and calling for criminal charges to be brought against former Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) CEO Stewart Parnell.
The press conference will be held concurrently with the Government Accountability Project (GAP) Food Integrity Campaign
Marler Clark has outgrown our space on the 66th floor of the Columbia Tower and we are less that a month away from moving into a new and larger space a number of floors lower in the Russell Investments Center – closer to the water, the Pike’s Place Market, Art Museum and Symphony Hall.
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