AP reports that school and health officials are trying to find out what sickened dozens of people after a sports banquet for a metro Atlanta high school.
WSB-TV reports that more than 100 people experienced symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhea after the banquet Monday night in Roswell. They included several football players, their
Don’t let Salmonella get “funky” or allow E. coli to “mosh” – well done.
I admittedly have much to be thankful for. I have three beautiful, talented daughters and a spectacular wife who has tolerated me for over 25 years. I am fortunate at Marler Clark to be surrounded by great staff and gifted lawyers. And, unlike many in my profession, I love my job. I am also daily
On the evening of Friday, September 19, 2014 Diane Norman bought pizzas at Domino’s Pizza located at 2800 Milton Way in Milton, Washington. She took the pizzas home for her family to consume. Michael Norman chose two slices of Canadian bacon and pineapple pizza and took a bite of one slice. He swallowed and immediately
I received this email from the mother of some great kids I represented in an E. coli Outbreak over eight years ago.
Dear Bill Marler and firm:
We have been blessed to interact with your firm first hand. While the majority of those interactions were several years ago I wanted to write and say how
“No illnesses have been reported to date.” How many times have we read a food recall notice posted on either the FDA or FSIS websites by the companies recalling the product with that self-serving statement? I would say most of the time.
In the past few months the CDC has reported three outbreaks – one
Bartlett Milling Company has initiated a limited recall of certain horse feeds due to potential Rumensin[1] contamination. The products were distributed to customers and retailers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
Rumensin contamination can result in health problems, including mortality, in horses. The products and lot number involved in the recall are:
A lot of people don’t like being lawyers. I love what I do. But part of the reason is that I get to translate what I’ve learned to teach people what they need to do to avoid these problems to begin with. I’m a very lucky lawyer.
I had a chance to talk with Jenna Greene of The National Law Journal last week. The Q&A was published today.
Where you see food—a rare hamburger, a salad with alfalfa sprouts, a slice of cantaloupe—Bill Marler sees pathogens. A name partner at Seattle’s Marler Clark, he has represented victims in every major food poisoning outbreak for three decades, winning more than $600 million for his clients.
Every day, Marler’s work revolves around people who became ill— vomiting, bloody diarrhea, organ failure, coma, sometimes death—from something innocuous that they ate.
Knowing that, how does he sit down at the table and pick up a fork?
The National Law Journal talked to Marler about food safety. The interview was edited for clarity and length.
Continue Reading The National Law Journal: Q&A: Food Safety Lawyer Bill Marler on What Not to Eat
Yes, Billion – Per Year[1]
I suppose you can call this the economic reason why I still have a job.
The Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture recently provided Cost Estimates of Foodborne Illnesses for the major foodborne illnesses in the United States as of 2013. This data includes:
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is warning consumers not to eat certain types of seafood from the Ventura county coastline due to dangerous levels of a naturally occurring toxin that can cause illness or death.
Consumers are advised not to eat:
• recreationally harvested bivalve shellfish (such as mussels, clams or whole scallops),
