Being at the office on a Saturday allows for a bit of catch up after a week of traveling (and hand surgery). Today is a day to double-check that all the t’s are crossed and i’s dotted in finalizing the Listeria Cantaloupe Litigation. After three years, five months and one day, I am glad for
King 5 News – Washington thirsty for raw milk despite warnings
More on the risks of raw milk sales.
KTCS 9 INCLOSE – Bill Marler – Food Safety Warrior
Bill Marler made history with the horrendous 1993 Jack in the Box food poisoning outbreak. Marler represented the most seriously ill child, Brianne Kiner. Four children died and hundreds were sickened by under-cooked E. coli:O157 tainted hamburgers. It was the beginning of a long, battle to not only represent victims, but also advocate for tougher food safety laws.
It has been a busy week in the press:
The New Yorker: A Bug in the System
Why last night’s chicken made you sick.
BY WIL S. HYLTON: February 2, 2015
A lawyer is leading the fight to keep contaminated food off the supermarket shelf.
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KCTS IN Close – Fires, Food and Funerals #118
Thursday, February 5, 07:00 pm on KCTS 9 HDSeattle/Yakima
Duration: 0:26:46
Description: Last summer’s Carlton Complex Fire burned 250,000 acres. EarthFix correspondent Courtney Flatt shows how ecologists are working to prevent another devastating fire. Producer Terry Murphy profiles local attorney Bill Marler’s 20-year crusade to make food safer. And producer Michael Werner takes us
The Takeaway: Obama Proposes Radical Overhaul of Nation’s Food Safety Operations
The Obama Administration is proposing a radical overhaul of the country’s food safety operations. Instead of having several bodies like the FDA, USDA, and FSIS, President Obama is proposing a single government agency that would oversee all food safety and inspection operations.
Wil S. Hylton is the author of a terrifying New Yorker article about
Opinion: From apple juice to caramel apples – a 20-year journey to the same place
Published today in Fresh Fruit Portal:
Nearly 20 years ago, a growing, all organic, all raw juice company saw its sales and profits ever rising. Looking for new markets to sell its “Superfood,” it reached out to the U.S. Army to sell the juice to healthy young men and women. The Army sent a
A Single Food Safety Agency – I have an idea for a new job – for me
President Barack Obama’s 2015 budget wants to create a new government agency dedicated to keeping the nation’s food safe. Now, who could disagree with that?
Presently, The Department of Agriculture oversees the safety and inspections of meat and processed eggs and the Food and Drug Administration oversees safety of most other foods. The split oversight
America’s 50 Most Powerful People in Food for 2015
I made the Daily Meal’s: America’s 50 Most Powerful People in Food for 2015
#43 Bill Marler, Foodborne Illness Lawyer and Attorney
An accomplished personal injury and products liability attorney, Marler has been litigating foodborne illness cases since 1993, when he represented Brianne Kiner, the most seriously sickened survivor of the Jack in the Box
Food Safety Speeches for the Coming Week
Next week I will be in Miami as the Keynote Speaker at the Inter-American Law Review Symposium and then to Las Vegas to be on a panel to discuss food safety responsibility from farmer to retailer at the National Grocers Association.
The civil justice system is ONE tool to make food safer
I have received quite a few comments (mostly positive) on Wil S. Hylton’s article in The New Yorker – A Bug in the System – Why last night’s chicken made you sick.
Although, I just figured out I might well be the bug!
Although the opening tagline makes my mom happy, my kids embarrassed and