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: USDA finally on the record; names Trader Joe's in E. coli outbreak

Naming the product cost the government nothing on Oct. 23. It would have cost nothing on Sept. 23.

By Bill Marler

/ 24 Oct 2026

Publisher's Platform: USDA finally on the record; names Trader Joe's in E. coli outbreak

Publisher's Platform: Fifty people sick, a known supplier, and FDA still won’t say its name. That is wrong, and here is how we fix it.

The public learned these were Trader Joe’s Tarragon Chicken Salad Wraps from a federal lawsuit, not from either agency charged with protecting it.

By Bill Marler

/ 23 Oct 2026

Publisher's Platform: Fifty people sick, a known supplier, and FDA still won’t say its name. That is wrong, and here is how we fix it.

Publisher's Platform: The food Traceability Rule has been law since 2022 – nobody has to follow it until 2028. Here is how that happened, and what FDA is doing with the time.

– OPINION –

By Bill Marler

/ 23 Oct 2026

Publisher's Platform: The food Traceability Rule has been law since 2022 – nobody has to follow it until 2028. Here is how that happened, and what FDA is doing with the time.

Publisher's Platform: Comments sought on FDA petition to add botulism to the infant formula testing list

No new law is needed. The list is FDA’s own, and the Commissioner can amend it.

By Bill Marler

/ 19 Oct 2026

Publisher's Platform: Comments sought on FDA petition to add botulism to the infant formula testing list

Publisher’s Platform: Seven Petitions, One Message: Tell Us What You Know, Test for What Kills, and Warn People Before They Eat It

Every one of these petitions comes back to the same idea. If the government knows something that would keep people from getting sick, it should test for it, write it down and tell the public. That is not a radical ask. It is the job.

By Bill Marler

/ 16 Oct 2026

Publisher’s Platform: Seven Petitions, One Message: Tell Us What You Know, Test for What Kills, and Warn People Before They Eat It

Publisher's Platform: Americans have lost faith in our food safety system: Here are 10 ways to win it back

Seventy-three percent of respondents say they avoided certain brands or types of food in the past year because of a recall or advisory, up from 53 percent in 2024.

By Bill Marler

/ 8 Oct 2026

Publisher's Platform: Americans have lost faith in our food safety system: Here are 10 ways to win it back

Publisher’s Platform: Put me out of the lettuce business, please

The largest Cyclospora outbreak in American history is over, and the next crop is going in the ground. Washington dismantled the system that would have caught it, Congress wrote letters instead of holding a hearing, and the produce industry pointed at the water.

By Bill Marler

/ 3 Oct 2026

Publisher’s Platform: Put me out of the lettuce business, please

Publisher's Platform: This FDA official got it right

I have spent more than 30 years representing people sickened by contaminated food. I do not often read a speech by an FDA official and find myself agreeing with nearly every line. This week I did.

By Bill Marler

/ 18 Sep 2026

Publisher's Platform: This FDA official got it right

Publisher's Platform: Want to Put Us Out of Business? Come Help Us Try.

Both jobs are open now. Lawyers, send a writing sample and tell me which case or outbreak on marlerblog.com you would pick up first and what you would do with it. Paralegals, tell me about the hardest lien you ever cleared or the record you had to fight hardest to get.

By Bill Marler

/ 9 Sep 2026

Publisher's Platform: The chronic disease groups have been in a different room, and they should not be

Here are 10 of them, and 10 things all 40 Food Safety organizations could work on together.

By Bill Marler

/ 9 Sep 2026

Publisher's Platform: The chronic disease groups have been in a different room, and they should not be

Publisher's Platform: September Is National Food Safety Education Month – Here are 30 organizations doing the work on the acute side

None bills an hour for the work.

By Bill Marler

/ 8 Sep 2026

Publisher's Platform: September Is National Food Safety Education Month – Here are 30 organizations doing the work on the acute side

Publisher's Platform: Harvard read the FRESH Act line by line

Nearly all of the public argument about this bill has been about food chemicals: dyes, PFAS, the GRAS loophole. That is where the fight started, and it is where the coalition backing the bill would prefer the fight to stay.

By Bill Marler

/ 3 Sep 2026

Publisher's Platform: Harvard read the FRESH Act line by line

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Publisher's Platform: USDA finally on the record; names Trader Joe's in E. coli outbreak

Publisher's Platform: Fifty people sick, a known supplier, and FDA still won’t say its name. That is wrong, and here is how we fix it.

Publisher's Platform: The food Traceability Rule has been law since 2022 – nobody has to follow it until 2028. Here is how that happened, and what FDA is doing with the time.

Publisher's Platform: Comments sought on FDA petition to add botulism to the infant formula testing list

Publisher’s Platform: Seven Petitions, One Message: Tell Us What You Know, Test for What Kills, and Warn People Before They Eat It

Publisher's Platform: Americans have lost faith in our food safety system: Here are 10 ways to win it back

Publisher’s Platform: Put me out of the lettuce business, please

Publisher's Platform: This FDA official got it right

Publisher's Platform: Want to Put Us Out of Business? Come Help Us Try.

Publisher's Platform: The chronic disease groups have been in a different room, and they should not be

Publisher's Platform: September Is National Food Safety Education Month – Here are 30 organizations doing the work on the acute side

Publisher's Platform: Harvard read the FRESH Act line by line