Why Did Whole Foods Stop Selling Raw Milk?
Why did Whole Foods stop selling raw milk in California, Washington, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut?In January, I wrote “Risky Business - Why would a retailer like Whole Foods sell Raw Milk?”...
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Bill Marler
Marler Clark LLPSeattle, Washington
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Bill Marler is an accomplished personal injury lawyer and national expert on food-borne illness litigation. He began representing victims of food-borne illness in 1993, when he represented Brianne Kiner, the most seriously injured survivor of the Jack in the Box E. coli O157:H7 outbreak, resulting in her landmark $15.6 million settlement. Since that time, Bill and his law partners at Marler Clark have represented thousands of individuals in claims against food companies whose contaminated products have caused serious injury and death. His advocacy for better food regulation has led to invitations to address local, national, and international gatherings on food safety, including testimony before the US House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce. In 1998, Bill and his law partners formed the not for profit Outbreak Inc., through which he spends much of the year speaking on issues related to food-borne illness. Bill’s personal blog, Marler Blog, is read by over one million people around the world every year.
Articles Written by Bill Marler
FSIS Should Require Labeling for Tenderized Steaks
On Christmas Eve 2009, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced that National Steak and Poultry was recalling 248,000 pounds of mechanically tenderized beef...
Is American Meat Unsafe or is this a Trade War?
Is "Made in the U.S.A." safe? Or, is this a trade war?When I was a kid in the early 1960s, I recall that "Made in Japan" meant cheap, but also...
IF We had an Undersecretary of Food Safety...
IF there was an undersecretary for food safety this is what they should be doing...1. Tattoo on a body part that you use every day the Food Safety and Inspection...
First Beef E. coli Recall of 2010
Athol, MA-based Adams Farm Slaughterhouse, LLC., late Monday recalled approximately 2,574 pounds of beef that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food...
National Steak & Poultry Should Pay Bills
Food safety advocate and attorney Bill Marler, whose Seattle law firm, Marler Clark, has been contacted by victims of the E. coli outbreak traced to the National Steak and Poultry...
Newark Eatery has Salmonella Link
The Newark City Health Department confirmed on Wednesday that Salmonella is the cause of a Salmonella outbreak that sickened dozens and resulted in several hospitalizations following Holiday parties at Newark's...
Considering Drinking Raw Milk? Read This
Over the last few years I have tried to bring some level of rationality to the debate over the consumption of raw milk. I first published a summary of the...
What I'd Recommend: Raw vs Pasteurized Milk
There has been an ongoing back-and-forth response from the Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) to my literature review of the pros and cons of drinking raw (unpasteurized) milk and a...
Raw Milk Outbreaks Do Happen
Raw milk-related bacterial outbreaks have been an unfortunate and expanding part of business at Marler Clark. Although not an every year occurrence, and we do not get retained in all...
Risky Business: Why Would a Retailer Sell Raw Milk
Raw milk, for its proponents, brings images of grandpa's idyllic farm - Bessie being milked as the cats meow around her legs. For the FDA and state and local health...
Healthcare Reform Requires Safe Food
President Obama once said:"There are certain things only a government can do. And one of those things is ensuring that the foods we eat are safe and do not cause...
Food Safety Acts Compared: HR 2749 vs. S 510
Shortly before the summer recess, the House overwhelmingly passed HR 2749 - The Food Safety Enhancement Act. The Senate may now either adopt the House version, or S 510 -...
How to document a food poisoning case
In "How to document a food poisoning case," an article printed in the November, 2004 issue of Trial Magazine, Dave Babcock and I explain: As a general rule, food poisoning...
Food Claims and Litigation
Written for the February, 2005 Food Safety In-Sight newsletter by Environ Health Associates, Inc, "Food Claims and Litigation" begins, "In a perfect food safety world, operators of food facilities would...