Last week the Washington State Department of Health declared an outbreak of hepatitis A in multiple counties in people who are living homeless or who use drugs. The outbreak includes 13 confirmed cases: nine in
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Publisher’s Platform: Restaurant Hepatitis A challenge – agree to vaccinate your employees and I will not sue you
From yesterday: “The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) is warning of a possible hep A exposure after an employee of the McDonald’s in Trumann tested positive for the virus.”
In 2000, I wrote this:
20 years for licking ice cream, 0 years for 10 Listeria illnesses with 3 deaths
Opinion
I gave the office the 5th off, but had the opportunity to talk with Fox 10 about the “Blue Bell Licker.” According to the report:
Police in East Texas say they have spoken with
Publisher’s Platform: Seriously, time to ban petting zoos?
Opinion
This past weekend I woke up to the sad news of yet other injuries and a death linked to animal contact at a fair.
San Diego County health officials announced late Friday night that
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Publisher’s Platform: A Father’s Day without a father
My friend and former client and I have stayed in touch since the Listeria cantaloupe outbreak took his father. On this Father’s Day I asked him to put some of his thoughts into words:
Publisher’s Platform: So says the Court — FDA what are ‘high risk’ Foods?
Opinion
A federal judge in California has told the Food and Drug Administration, which is the nation’s leading food regulator, to stop dragging its feet on the long-awaited rules surrounding food recalls and outbreaks of
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Publisher’s Platform: The Hepatitis A broken record — Restaurant workers should be vaccinated
Opinion
Editor’s note: May is Hepatitis Awareness Month and today is Hepatitis Testing Day. For more information, click here to visit the CDC page.
I am sure the idiom, “you sound like a broken record,”
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Publisher’s Platform: If I was part of Caito Foods, I’d be nervous
Opinion
Criminal prosecutions in food cases have been quiet for the last few years.
Outbreak 2: The recent multistate investigation began on April 2, 2019, when CDC’s PulseNet identified the Salmonella Carrau outbreak. As of
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Publisher’s Platform: Beef and Cut Fruit Manufacturers should pay medical bills and wage loss of Salmonella and E. coli Victims
Opinion
Bill Marler, food safety advocate and foodborne attorney since 1993, whose Seattle law firm, Marler Clark, has been contacted by victims of the recent E. coli O103 ground meat outbreak, and recent
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Publisher’s Platform: Beef Industry, Seriously, I thought you were putting me out of Business?
Opinion
On the anniversary of my 5,000th blog post (I’m now at 6,388) I wrote:
In 2002, I wrote an Op-ed for the Denver Post entitled: “Put me out of business. Please.”
For this
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Publisher’s Platform: It’s past time to offer foodservice workers Hep A vaccinations
Opinion
Vaccinating food service workers will not solve the entire HAV problem — we need a nationwide focus on homelessness and drug use as well.
According to a recent health warning, the CDC reported multiple
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