From FDA Press Release from yesterday:
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a proposed rule to establish additional traceability recordkeeping requirements for certain foods. The FDA also published a draft “Food Traceability List,” which describes the foods that would be subject to the proposed requirements. The list includes leafy greens,
After a few months of not commuting by ferry from Bainbridge Island to downtown Seattle, and not spending days on that ferry or an airplane flying around the world, I decided to land back on Bainbridge Island with my law office – or at least the island version of the Seattle version. Over the next
When Bill Marler was 16 years old, he ran away from home and became a migrant worker for a while, living in squalid cabins, sleeping outdoors, and hitchhiking rides to farms to pick crops.
The low point of Marler’s life came when he lost a gig and completely ran out of money.
For a week,
The second annual observance of World Food Safety Day is June 7.
This day is an opportunity to promote awareness about how to keep our food supply safe and recognize the many people who help get healthy and safe food to our tables
True enough, but with COVID-19, and yet another death of a black
Law360: Prominent food safety plaintiffs’ attorney Bill Marler of Marler Clark LLP, who has been representing victims of foodborne illnesses since the early 1990s, recently spoke with Law360 about practicing remotely from his home on Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound and about food safety concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Marler began his career in
Kyle Bagenstose of USA Today did a deep dive into food safety in today’s article: “Inspections, citations, recalls slashed: Coronavirus is testing America’s food safety net.” The lack of inspections and recalls are of great concern.
In addition, the questions raised about foodborne illness investigations (or the lack thereof) are of even great concern, as
With COVID-19, what will 2020 bring?
According to FoodNet data published in the recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, in 2019, compared with the previous 3 years, the incidence of infections caused by pathogens transmitted commonly through food increased (for Campylobacter, Cyclospora, STEC, Vibrio, Yersinia) or remained unchanged (for Listeria
Infections from five of eight pathogens tracked by the CDC are on the rise. See MMWR this week.
Initial analysis of data comparing the period from 2016-2018 with numbers for 2019 (see table below) shows that the federal government’s Healthy People 2020 targets for reducing foodborne illness will not be met, according to the Morbidity
So says the press release from the Department of Justice today.
Here is something that I wrote almost 5 years ago today:
After watching the Blue Bell Listeria Outbreak unfold over the last months – especially after reading the FDA’s 483’s, I think it is time for the President and CEO of Blue Bell to
From professor Lytton in the Conversation:
Governors around the country are attempting to restart the economy by easing restrictions put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The prospect of returning to “normal” amid a pandemic has businesses lobbying Congress to grant them sweeping immunity from civil liability for failure to adequately protect
