The Food Standards Agency of Scotland (FSAS) has announced that Macsween of Edinburgh Ltd has recalled a number of its products, including products manufactured for Lidl and Marks & Spencer, as a precautionary measure, because of concerns over the company’s procedures in place to control Clostridium botulinum.
FSAS reports that manufacturing controls that could potentially
From my friends at the CDC who publish Morbidity, Mortality Weekly Review:
During 1975–2012, CDC surveillance identified 1,680 trichinellosis cases in the United States with implicated food items; among these cases, 1,219 were attributed to consumption of raw or pork products, and 461 were attributed to nonpork products. Although trichinellosis in the United States has
Lawyers Who Are Changing the World
By Jeff Tolman
I have great respect for people who take control of their lives and create a successful life and practice in the changing and evolving legal universe. That would be Bill Marler, Senior Partner at Marler Clark, The Food Safety Law Firm, in Seattle. Bill is considered
In the last two months, in between legal work that has taken me from Hawaii, Salt Lake City and Portland, Maine, I have had the honor to speak on food safety at the following venues:
Food Safety Summit – Chicago
Michigan State University – Lansing
Missouri Food Safety Task Force – St. Louis
Institute of
I can hear a bit of silence in the board rooms of America.
Monday the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeals of Austin “Jack” DeCoster and his son, Peter DeCoster, without comment. In April 2015 U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett sentenced the DeCosters to prison, saying they knew or should have known about
Thoughts?
Seattle/King County Public Health is investigating an outbreak of gastroenteritis with abdominal cramps and diarrhea associated with Rancho Bravo Tacos at 1001 East Pine St, Seattle. Four people from a single party became ill soon after eating food at the restaurant on 4/22/17; none were hospitalized. Symptoms and timing of illness onset are suggestive of
McCain Foods USA, Inc. announced today it is voluntarily recalling retail, frozen hash brown products that may be contaminated with extraneous golf ball materials, that despite our stringent supply standards may have been inadvertently harvested with potatoes used to make this product. Consumption of these products may pose a choking hazard or other physical injury
U.S. Attorney’s office in Illinois was active this evening, and appears to have interest in protecting the food we consume. According to a press release:
Ernest Griffin, 71, took bribes from individuals who wanted to obtain Sanitation Certificates from the Illinois Department of Public Health without attending a 15-hour course and taking an exam.
From about 2011 though the Summer of 2015 business was slower for The Food Safety Law Firm, which meant on average less people were sickened by the food they ate. For some time I thought the food industry was actually “Putting me out of Business.” However, the CDC’s FoodNet published in MMWR today the foodborne
