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.

Post red carpet at Tribeca, Poisoned to be a fundraiser for food bank

The good folks at Netflix have been kind enough to allow us to do another “red carpet premiere” at the historic Lynwood Theater on Bainbridge Island on July 2 at

By Bill Marler

/ 12 Jun 2023

Post red carpet at Tribeca, Poisoned to be a fundraiser for food bank

Publisher’s Platform: Offer Hepatitis A Vaccines – an offer you can’t refuse

Or, at least your shouldn’t. Hardly a week goes by that there is not yet another announcement of a hepatitis A positive employee putting co-workers, customers and the restaurant

By Bill Marler

/ 1 Jun 2023

Publisher’s Platform: Offer Hepatitis A Vaccines – an offer you can’t refuse

Publisher’s Platform: If you visited a Taco Bell in Everett or Lake Stevens on May 22 or 23 you have less than 2 weeks to get a Hepatitis A vaccine

Too bad the Taco Bell worker was not already vaccinated. The Snohomish County Health Department has identified a case of hepatitis A that occurred in a food worker who worked

By Bill Marler

/ 30 May 2023

Publisher’s Platform: If you visited a Taco Bell in Everett or Lake Stevens on May 22 or 23 you have less than 2 weeks to get a Hepatitis A vaccine

Publisher’s Platform: Health officials should report what restaurant is linked to outbreak

— OPINION — I must admit, in 30 years of doing food safety, I seldom recall a health department withholding from the public the source of an outbreak – even Norovirus. I am

By Bill Marler

/ 25 May 2023

Publisher’s Platform: Health officials should report what restaurant is linked to outbreak

Publisher’s Platform: For babies’ sake, make Cronobacter sakazakii reportable

— OPINION — The Abbott infant formula recall could have been prevented. The FDA had reports of safety failures months before the contaminated formula sickened babies and caused two deaths. I sent

By Bill Marler

/ 10 May 2023

Publisher’s Platform: For babies’ sake, make Cronobacter sakazakii reportable

Publisher’s Platform: It’s time to get Salmonella out of chicken products

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has released a proposed determination to declare Salmonella an adulterant in breaded stuffed raw chicken products

By Bill Marler

/ 28 Apr 2023

Publisher’s Platform: It’s time to get Salmonella out of chicken products

Publisher’s Platform: ‘Poisoned’ scheduled on Netflix in June and the mystery missing updates

Well, rumor has it that the documentary version of the story of the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak will be out in June 2023. When all thought

By Bill Marler

/ 13 Apr 2023

Publisher’s Platform: ‘Poisoned’ scheduled on Netflix in June and the mystery missing updates

Publisher’s Platform: Get the F out of the FDA

A few weeks ago I offered the first 100 people who emailed me at bmarler@marlerclark.com, and gave me their mailing address, that I would send them a free

By Bill Marler

/ 7 Apr 2023

Publisher’s Platform: Get the F out of the FDA

Publisher’s Platform: A history of flour outbreaks in recent years

With another flour-related foodborne illness outbreak brewing – this time Salmonella – a bit(e) of history might be on the menu. Here is the latest one: As of March 30, 2023,

By Bill Marler

/ 4 Apr 2023

Publisher’s Platform: A history of flour outbreaks in recent years

Publisher’s Platform: Be Best or Be Better

— OPINION — I must admit, I seldom borrow anything from the former President or the First Lady, but this seemed to fit all too well. Late in 2022 the public learned

By Bill Marler

/ 13 Mar 2023

Publisher’s Platform: Be Best or Be Better

Publisher’s Platform: I have changed my mind – it is time to ‘GET THE F OUT OF THE FDA’

— OPINION — A few weeks ago I posted, “Putting the F – Food – back into the FDA.” I was wrong. It is time to “GET THE F OUT OF THE FDA.” The

By Bill Marler

/ 8 Mar 2023

Publisher’s Platform: I have changed my mind – it is time to ‘GET THE F OUT OF THE FDA’

Publisher’s Platform: It’s time to deal with hepatitis A and food service workers

— OPINION — ACIP Secretariat Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices 1600 Clifton Road, N.E., Mailstop H24-8 Atlanta, GA 30329-4027 acip@cdc.gov Re: Letter to the CDC’s Committee on Immunization

By Bill Marler

/ 6 Mar 2023

Publisher’s Platform: It’s time to deal with hepatitis A and food service workers

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Bill Marler

Post red carpet at Tribeca, Poisoned to be a fundraiser for food bank

Publisher’s Platform: Offer Hepatitis A Vaccines – an offer you can’t refuse

Publisher’s Platform: If you visited a Taco Bell in Everett or Lake Stevens on May 22 or 23 you have less than 2 weeks to get a Hepatitis A vaccine

Publisher’s Platform: Health officials should report what restaurant is linked to outbreak

Publisher’s Platform: For babies’ sake, make Cronobacter sakazakii reportable

Publisher’s Platform: It’s time to get Salmonella out of chicken products

Publisher’s Platform: ‘Poisoned’ scheduled on Netflix in June and the mystery missing updates

Publisher’s Platform: Get the F out of the FDA

Publisher’s Platform: Be Best or Be Better

Publisher’s Platform: I have changed my mind – it is time to ‘GET THE F OUT OF THE FDA’

Publisher’s Platform: It’s time to deal with hepatitis A and food service workers