In 1998, Marler Clark was formed by the unlikely pairing of Bill Marler, who represented the victims in the 1993 Jack-in-the-Box E. coli Outbreak, and Bruce Clark, who defended the company. Since then,
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Pathogen information at your fingertips on our ‘bug’ sites
Reprinted by Bill Marler in full without permission from Tim York’s column in The Packer.
Food safety attorney Bill Marler was heavily promoting his appearance a couple weeks ago at the Food and Drug
Continue Reading President Biden, ask your FDA leadership to visit a lettuce farm!
This weekend I continued to work on the Parker and Jarboe E. coli cases — both linked to the consumption of tainted romaine lettuce that was caused by E. coli O157:H7 contaminated cattle feces
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Killing two birds with one stone still works
I am speaking (virtually) at the Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI) Conference this week: https://www.fdli.org/2021/03/2021-food-and-dietary-supplement-safety-and-regulation-conference-agenda/.
My guess is that there will be a few FDA and FSIS people in attendance.
My role is
In an increasing era of transparency, the FDA, along with its food safety partners at the CDC and FSIS, have for the last several months been listing and announcing investigations of foodborne illness outbreaks
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: FDA is letting more sunshine in — outbreak table available
The FDA is launching a new, temporary testing program for the romaine lettuce from commercial coolers in the Yuma, AZ, growing region. Romaine from the area has been linked to several foodborne illness outbreaks
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Is the FDA reviving the MDP without telling us?
Thompson International has called out the FDA and CDC in the United States and the Canadian food safety and public health authorities in relation to a Salmonella outbreak in 2020 that was linked to
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: They say this, the others say that, but people got sick either way
Setting aside the fact that, after tomorrow’s election, the United States may well have a non-functioning democracy and that both its civil and criminal justice system may collapse under the weight of political violence.
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Jail Time – or at least a hefty fine – for the Tiger?
According to the FDA, September is National Food Safety Education Month!
This month take an active role in preventing foodborne illness, also known as “food poisoning.” The Federal government estimates that there are about 48
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform – Food Safety Month – We need some work
CNN reported this week that Coca-Cola is shutting down the juice and smoothie brand Odwalla at the end of July. Coca-Cola purchased the brand in 2001.
Coca-Cola made the call “given a rapidly shifting marketplace
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Good riddance to bad rubbish
Yesterday it was reported that a food handler at the White Steamer diner in Washington, Indiana who worked last week has been diagnosed with Hepatitis A.
The Daviess County Health Department says while it
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: CDC punts on recommending food service worker vaccinations – CDC, low risk perhaps, but at times, at a very high cost
