Quality Assurance and Food Safety Magazine
April 3, 2020
Photos by Jake Gravbrot
On one hand: “You have to recognize what an amazing job food production is doing in the world, especially in the U.S. Given the amount of people that we feed, the relative safety of the food
During this time of COVID I am spending far less time in airports, conference rooms and courtrooms, so I had some time to finally go through some papers left when my mom died a few years ago. I found the below in her “treasures.” I am not sure when I wrote this, but I am
Dear Marler Clark Clients:
We first want to wish you, your family and friends health during the COVID-19 pandemic. We also want to encourage all to continue social distancing to the greatest extent possible with proper hand-washing and cleaning. If you are ill, please self-isolate. The goal here is to avoid overwhelming our health care
And our friends are all aboard
Many more of them live next door
Today I did a mediation via Zoom. I must admit, as a person that likes personal contact, talking by video with a former judge, insurance carriers, defense lawyers and clients, about a child that nearly died from complications of an E. coli
Update: We added a donation to Bainbridge Island Helpline House Food Bank last night, and over the coming days, weeks and months, we will do more to help our communities.
Also, all Marler Clark staff are working from home except we will try having one person come in daily to deal with mail. We have
Fresh Herbs Results as of 10/1/2019
The FDA plans to collect 1,600 fresh herbs samples (761 domestic, and 839 of international origin) under this assignment. As of September 30, 2019, the agency had collected and tested 746 domestic samples (98 percent) and 468 import samples (56 percent) of the totals. The following figures summarize the
In 2013, five years after the nationwide Salmonella outbreak in 2009 that killed 9 people and sickened more than 700, the U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday announced a 76-count indictment has been filed charging four former officials of the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) and a related company for selling Salmonella-contaminated peanut butter products.
I edited this email I recently got from a client to protect their identity.
Dear Bill,
What to say? Thank you so much for your tireless work on __________’s behalf. We are so grateful for your willingness to take on her case, and for the help you offered before she was even your client. We
There are few in the business of combating diarrhea that I respect more that Frank Yiannis and Rob Tauxe.
I am sure that it is not reciprocated, because I am one of those “damn ambulance chasers.” But, guys, it is past time to stop hiding foodborne illness outbreaks – regardless of the thin legal justification.
Petition seeks to classify all salmonella strains as meat adulterants
By Julie Larson Bricher on 1/23/2020
https://www.meatingplace.com/Industry/News/Details/89900
Seattle-based law firm Marler Clark LLP filed a petition Jan. 19 with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) urging the agency to declare 31 salmonella outbreak serotypes as adulterants in meat and poultry products.
The 60-page petition
