Publisher's Platform: Magic Wand
What if I had a food safety magic wand?The other morning when I was prepping in another studio to talk with another cable channel about yet another food crisis--this time...
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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
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The House and Senate Agriculture and U.S. Food and Drug Administration Oversight Committees should hold joint hearings on the Salmonella egg fiasco.As I said to the Associate Press yesterday, "The...
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S. 510 - FDA Food Safety Modernization Act - The Small Farms and Businesses Assistance ActIn early 2007, just after the first large-scale peanut butter Salmonella outbreak, I was meeting...
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I received this email this weekend in response to an interview I gave recently about raw milk to "Food Manufacturing" online:Farm fresh? All the rage? natural food craze? certified organic...
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Has the nail been driven into the coffin of the conventional wisdom that grass-fed beef is safer than grain-fed beef?In 2008 I posted "Grass-Fed vs Grain-Fed Beef and the Holy...
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CRETE--I must admit I have been a bit neglectful in my weekly duties of getting my Publisher's Platform in on time. This week I actually did have time to think...
Lawyers, Microbiologists, and Safe Food
There must be a good joke about a lawyer who sidles up to a bar and strikes up a conversation with the microbiologist on the next stool. I don't know...
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If I were a CEO of a food manufacturing company at the beginning of a food poisoning outbreak what would I do?Imagine that the phone call comes or an email...
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Last week I spoke at the National Environmental Health Association annual convention. My talk was entitled "What has Changed Since Upton Sinclair? A Contemporary View of Food Safety." As I...
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I must admit that I tire of the moans from raw milk advocates that Big Dairy and Big Government is out to get them. I shake my head at the...
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I have decided this week that the "Tea Party" movement is "right"--business and government in the U.S.A. are "a bunch of damn socialists"--at least they are when poisoning consumers and...
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My Damn Day Job(s)You have to give a lot of credit to the folks at FSN - Dan, Helena, Suzanne and Zach (Zach is leaving soon - taking a job...
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Oops, I missed my self-imposed deadline to get to Suzanne this week's version of the "Publisher's Platform." Well, now it is 4:00 am on Mother's Day. No great excuse for...
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Somehow Dan the editor and the several staff of Food Safety News convinced me while in Las Vegas (they may well have pictures) to write a few lines each week...
Celebrate National Public Health Week, Pass S. 510
The American Public Health Association celebrates National Public Health Week this week. The association wants to create "a place where everyone has access to health care and services, where we're...