Opinion & Contributed Articles

Publisher's Platform: We’re turning off the smoke detectors on America’s food supply

The people who find foodborne outbreaks are being fired, defunded, and disbanded — and the bugs do not care.

By Bill Marler

/ 11 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: We’re turning off the smoke detectors on America’s food supply

Publisher’s Platform: Thirty Years of Questions I get Asked: Straight answers for food company executives and lawmakers

I have spent more than thirty years on one side of the food safety fight, ever since the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak. In that time, I have sat across the deposition table from a lot of food company executives and testified in front of a fair number of legislators.

By Bill Marler

/ 9 Jun 2026

Publisher’s Platform: Thirty Years of Questions I get Asked: Straight answers for food company executives and lawmakers

Publisher's Platform: The quiet way raw milk can paralyze you

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By Bill Marler

/ 9 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: The quiet way raw milk can paralyze you

Publisher's Platform: Redactions and the move towards radical transparency

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By Bill Marler

/ 8 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: Redactions and the move towards radical transparency

Publisher's Platform: World Food Safety Day 2026: From Burden to Solutions — If We Don't Look Away

Today is World Food Safety Day, and this year the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization have given us a theme that sounds almost like it was written for the work I have spent the last three decades doing: "From burden to solutions – safe food everywhere."

By Bill Marler

/ 7 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: World Food Safety Day 2026: From Burden to Solutions — If We Don't Look Away

Publisher's Platform: 866 Million Reasons to Stop Working in Silos

World Food Safety Day is June 7, 2026 Every few years a number comes along that stops me cold, even after three decades of doing this work. This week, that

By Bill Marler

/ 5 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: 866 Million Reasons to Stop Working in Silos

Publisher's Platform: What the FDA did not want you to read about the November 2024 romaine E. coli outbreak

The fully unredacted version now identifies, in plain text, what the redacted boxes were hiding

By Bill Marler

/ 4 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: What the FDA did not want you to read about the November 2024 romaine E. coli outbreak

Publisher's Platform: Where did the Boar’s Head investigations go? Hello DOJ and USDA Inspector General?

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By Bill Marler

/ 3 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: The infant formula industry was warned about Botulism long before outbreak

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By Bill Marler

/ 2 Jun 2026

The Litigated Dish: Climate change may be helping Salmonella become more drug-resistant

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By Ilana Korchia

/ 1 Jun 2026

The Litigated Dish: Climate change may be helping Salmonella become more drug-resistant

Publisher’s Platform: We Haven’t Finished the Job - A Warning From the Kebab Shop

I have spent more than thirty years representing people whose lives were shattered by a single meal. I have sat across from parents in hospital waiting rooms, watched children in kidney failure, and held the hands of families who buried kids who just wanted a hamburger.

By Bill Marler

/ 30 May 2026

Publisher’s Platform: We Haven’t Finished the Job - A Warning From the Kebab Shop

Bill Marler is right about food safety — but here’s what he left out

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By Guest Contributor

/ 25 May 2026

Bill Marler is right about food safety — but here’s what he left out

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Opinion & Contributed Articles

Publisher's Platform: We’re turning off the smoke detectors on America’s food supply

Publisher’s Platform: Thirty Years of Questions I get Asked: Straight answers for food company executives and lawmakers

Publisher's Platform: The quiet way raw milk can paralyze you

Publisher's Platform: Redactions and the move towards radical transparency

Publisher's Platform: 866 Million Reasons to Stop Working in Silos

Publisher's Platform: What the FDA did not want you to read about the November 2024 romaine E. coli outbreak

Publisher's Platform: Where did the Boar’s Head investigations go? Hello DOJ and USDA Inspector General?

Publisher's Platform: The infant formula industry was warned about Botulism long before outbreak

The Litigated Dish: Climate change may be helping Salmonella become more drug-resistant

Publisher’s Platform: We Haven’t Finished the Job - A Warning From the Kebab Shop

Bill Marler is right about food safety — but here’s what he left out

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