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.
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.
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."
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
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.
Many of the below criminal cases stemmed from outbreaks that sickened consumers that I had the honor to represent. It appears that the risk of criminal prosecution for food crimes is still real.