Is it time for prosecutors to set forth clear guidelines for who is prosecuted and who is not?
A few weeks ago I was quoted in an article entitled “Will Blue Bell face criminal charges after ice cream recall?”
Bill Marler, a food safety lawyer who has represented victims in many of those cases, says
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Alabama state health officials say food poisoning is the suspected culprit after 86 children became ill at a Montgomery day care.
State Health Officer Don Williamson said Wednesday that health officials have ordered Sunny Side Child Care Center’s two locations to remain closed as they try to determine the organism that made the children ill.
According to press reports, the Kane County Illinois Health Department is investigating reports of possible food poisoning among people who ate at the Grumpy Goat Tavern in Elgin, Illinois.
Seventeen people have reported suffering from “gastrointestinal disorders” after eating at the restaurant at The Highlands of Elgin golf course Saturday, as part of a golf
In 1998 in what was the first criminal conviction in a large-scale food-poisoning outbreak, Odwalla Inc. pleaded guilty to violating Federal food safety laws and agreed to pay a $1.5 million fine for selling tainted apple juice that killed a 16-month-old girl and sickened 70 other people in several states in 1996. Odwalla, based in
I am working on an upcoming speech on the risk of criminal sanctions for the production and sale of adulterated food.
We hear about them so often these days–recalls of all kinds of products, from foods, to medications, to kids toys–that “recall” has become a working concept in everybody’s vocabulary. But what is a recall? Who has the legal obligation to announce them? And, what legal ramifications are there of being involved in one?
First, despite
Foodborne pathogens impose over $15.5 billion (2013 dollars) in economic burden on the U.S. public each year. Just five pathogens cause 90 percent of this burden. Estimates of economic burden per case vary greatly, ranging from $202 for Cyclospora cayetanensis to $3.3 million for Vibrio vulnificus.
According to the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet), there were a total of 19,542 infections, 4,445 hospitalizations and 71 deaths reported in 2014. Some types of infections declined, some increased, and some stayed the same. FoodNet is a collaboration between CDC, 10 state health departments, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and
