The Seattle Times | By Sandy Doughton | Feb. 24, 2023
Seattle attorney Bill Marler will be featured in an upcoming Netflix documentary about the 1993 Jack in the Box food poisoning outbreak. Thirty years later, Marler is still suing companies for selling food that makes people sick. He’s shown here at his home
The Seattle Times | By Sandy Doughton | Feb. 24, 2023
People in the food industry used to call attorney Bill Marler a blood-sucking ambulance chaser. Now they honor him for 30 years spent fighting to improve food safety. (Daniel Kim / The Seattle Times)
IN JULY 1990, I wrote a story for The
I need to update my slide deck:
Food and ingredient manufacturing company Kerry Inc. pleaded guilty today to a charge that it manufactured breakfast cereal under insanitary conditions at a facility in Gridley
Statement of Jerold Mande, CEO, Nourish Science
FDA Proposed Redesign of Human Foods Program
I congratulate Dr. Califf and FDA for making a serious effort to address FDA’s many food failings. Unfortunately, they failed to use this hard work to produce a plan that solves the fundamental problems.
The #1 problem is inadequate resources including
It is past time for Congress and the Administration to step in and solve the FDA organizational problems that seems to elude the FDA bureaucracy.
Safe food should not be a political issue.
Perhaps, because after 30 years in the food poison trenches, I had a good idea what was going to happen (or not)
Tomorrow is the long-anticipated day that Dr. Califf is set to announce his intentions on how or if to implement the recommendations of the Reagan-Udall Foundation panel’s review of the FDA’s human foods program.
On behalf of the 48,000,000 Americans sickened by a foodborne illness yearly in the U.S. and the millions who die of
Dr. Califf, I have deep admiration for your past and ongoing public service. The hard work of trying to protect the food and drug supply in the United States is a difficult and at times thankless task. The fact that you have taken this responsibility on more than once speaks volumes to your character.
Your decision post the
I must admit I was a bit suspect when I flew from Seattle to DC a few months ago to testify for 5 minutes before the Independent Expert Panel. Putting aside if they would pay attention to me, but would the panel take to heart the experience and thoughtfulness of all the panels and the
The Independent Expert Panel, charged with generating the report by December 6th, is comprised of researchers, former regulators, and process improvement specialists with disciplinary expertise and experience in epidemiology, food science and safety, microbiology, nutrition, and regulatory operations.
And, did I say the the FDA appears to have closed its investigation after nearly 400 reported illnesses?
Tara, you might remember that it is an ingredient in both Daily Harvest French Lentil and Leek Crumbles and in Revive Pineapple and Mango Smoothies. Tara, or Caesalpinia spinosa is a shrub or tree that can reach
