Bill Marler

Accomplished personal injury lawyer, Food Safety News founder and publisher, and internationally recognized food safety expert. Bill's advocacy work has led to testimony before Congress and his blog reaches 1M+ readers annually.

Publisher’s Platform: The Safest Fourth of July in 250 Years

On the 250th birthday of a country that keeps, against long odds, getting better at feeding itself — that dream feels a little less far off than it used to. Happy Independence Day. Eat well and eat safely. We have earned both.

By Bill Marler

/ 4 Jul 2026

Publisher’s Platform: The Safest Fourth of July in 250 Years

Publisher's Platform: Nara, you knew what when? And, your words matter!

As the company that imported this formula from Europe, Nara had specific, federally mandated duties to find this hazard and make sure its supplier controlled it.

By Bill Marler

/ 2 Jul 2026

Publisher's Platform: Letter to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

Bring the FDA, Dairy Farmers of America, Organic West Milk, and Nara Organics before this Committee and put the disclosure failure of 2025 on the public record — so the next reform is built on what actually happened, not on what anyone is willing to volunteer.

By Bill Marler

/ 1 Jul 2026

Publisher's Platform: Letter to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

Publisher’s Platform: You Can’t Test One Spore Out of Five Cans — So Fund It, Inspect It, and Let the Parents Speak

The Scientific American piece is not a reason to give up. It is a blueprint: stop pretending a number on a can is a guarantee, move the controls upstream to the milk and the plant, fund the people who make any mandate real.

By Bill Marler

/ 30 Jun 2026

Publisher’s Platform: You Can’t Test One Spore Out of Five Cans — So Fund It, Inspect It, and Let the Parents Speak

Publisher’s Platform: Mr. Abbott, You Are Not Going to Jail After All

Four years ago, I wrote two posts with titles I meant: “Mr. Abbott, you are going to face criminal sanctions” and, a few weeks earlier, “Mr. Abbott, you are going to jail for manufacturing tainted infant formula.”

By Bill Marler

/ 29 Jun 2026

Publisher’s Platform: Mr. Abbott, You Are Not Going to Jail After All

Publisher's Platform: The genome doesn't lie

For companies, choosing not to look is not a defense. It is willful blindness, and juries understand it instantly.

By Bill Marler

/ 29 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: The genome doesn't lie

Publisher’s Platform: I’ve written the letters. Now I’m asking 55,000 of You — What’s the next move — Ideas?

In the last seven months this country has had two outbreaks of infant botulism, both traced to powdered whole-milk infant formula.

By Bill Marler

/ 26 Jun 2026

Publisher’s Platform: I’ve written the letters. Now I’m asking 55,000 of You — What’s the next move — Ideas?

Publisher's Platform: Nara used same supply chain as ByHeart

Nara Organics products are made in Germany, but the company began using whole milk from Organic West and Dairy Farmers of America when it first began selling infant formula.

By Bill Marler

/ 23 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: Nara used same supply chain as ByHeart

Publisher's Platform: A company’s name is not a trade secret

The FDA hides behind the Trade Secrets Act and FOIA Exemption 4, and it treats the name of a food company linked to an outbreak as if it were a proprietary formula.

By Bill Marler

/ 22 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: A company’s name is not a trade secret

Publisher's Platform: FDA’s ByHeart inspection report is finally public — everyone owns the bottle

On Thursday, June 11, 2026, the FDA quietly posted to its website the document those of us investigating the ByHeart infant-botulism outbreak have waited months to see: the complete

By Bill Marler

/ 17 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: FDA’s ByHeart inspection report is finally public — everyone owns the bottle

Publisher's Platform: The genome doesn’t lie

When I started suing food companies more than thirty years ago, after E. coli O157:H7 in undercooked Jack in the Box hamburgers killed four children and sickened hundreds, proving

By Bill Marler

/ 16 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: Two botulism outbreaks in seven months — where are the FDA and the formula industry on the formula we feed our kids?

For the second time in seven months, I am writing about a baby formula that is carrying the toxin that causes botulism.

By Bill Marler

/ 14 Jun 2026

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Publisher’s Platform: The Safest Fourth of July in 250 Years

Publisher's Platform: Nara, you knew what when? And, your words matter!

Publisher's Platform: Letter to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

Publisher’s Platform: You Can’t Test One Spore Out of Five Cans — So Fund It, Inspect It, and Let the Parents Speak

Publisher’s Platform: Mr. Abbott, You Are Not Going to Jail After All

Publisher's Platform: The genome doesn't lie

Publisher’s Platform: I’ve written the letters. Now I’m asking 55,000 of You — What’s the next move — Ideas?

Publisher's Platform: Nara used same supply chain as ByHeart

Publisher's Platform: A company’s name is not a trade secret

Publisher's Platform: FDA’s ByHeart inspection report is finally public — everyone owns the bottle

Publisher's Platform: The genome doesn’t lie

Publisher's Platform: Two botulism outbreaks in seven months — where are the FDA and the formula industry on the formula we feed our kids?