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: It has nearly been six years since over 1,000 people were sickened and over 200 died from Listeria-tainted Polony in South Africa

A new journal article on the polony tragedy was just published: “Cost estimation of listeriosis (Listeria monocytogenes) occurrence in South Africa in 2017 and its food safety implications.” Some main

By Bill Marler

/ 30 Aug 2023

Publisher’s Platform: It has nearly been six years since over 1,000 people were sickened and over 200 died from Listeria-tainted Polony in South Africa

Publisher’s Platform: Post Poisoned – What to do with my Food Safety Magic Wand?

— OPINION — Over two months ago, while watching the premiere of the documentary, “Poisoned,” at the Tribeca Film Festival in NYC, I got thinking again about how little in the past

By Bill Marler

/ 5 Aug 2023

Publisher’s Platform: Post Poisoned – What to do with my Food Safety Magic Wand?

Publisher’s Platform: A few heroes of ‘Poisoned’ – Darin Detwiler

— OPINION — When you are sitting comfortable at home feeding your kids or going out to dinner, remember that there are a lot of people that have your back. I will

By Bill Marler

/ 4 Aug 2023

Publisher’s Platform: A few heroes of ‘Poisoned’ – Darin Detwiler

Publisher’s Platform: Rosa DeLauro is just one of the heroes of ‘Poisoned’

— OPINION — When you are sitting comfortable at home feeding your kids or going out to dinner, remember that there are a lot of people that have your back. I will

By Bill Marler

/ 3 Aug 2023

Publisher’s Platform: Rosa DeLauro is just one of the heroes of ‘Poisoned’

Publisher’s Platform: Why is it legal to sell meat contaminated with Salmonella

— OPINION — Ground Beef tainted with Salmonella can knowingly be sold as approved by the USDA/FSIS. It has caused a Salmonella Outbreak that has sickened 16 in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New

By Bill Marler

/ 28 Jul 2023

Publisher’s Platform: Why is it legal to sell meat contaminated with Salmonella

Publisher’s Platform: Two weeks until ‘Poisoned’ hits Netflix

The much anticipated streaming of the documentary “Poisoned” hits Netflix on August 2. The film, based in part on a best selling book by the same name, has been in

By Bill Marler

/ 20 Jul 2023

Publisher’s Platform: Two weeks until ‘Poisoned’ hits Netflix

Its official, the trailer for Poisoned is out

Look for it on Netflix in early August. Also, a good time to order the book – https://www.amazon.com/Poisoned-Deadly-Outbreak-Changed-Americans/dp/B0BPKKCSM3 The documentary first

By Bill Marler

/ 6 Jul 2023

Its official, the trailer for Poisoned is out

Publisher’s Platform: The House Appropriations Committee Directs the FDA to Restructure – will it be Ignored?

Perhaps not as far as I would have gone – “Get the F out of the FDA” – but a major step in the right direction to elevate Food Safety and Human

By Bill Marler

/ 17 Jun 2023

Publisher’s Platform: The House Appropriations Committee Directs the FDA to Restructure – will it be Ignored?

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

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

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Publisher’s Platform: It has nearly been six years since over 1,000 people were sickened and over 200 died from Listeria-tainted Polony in South Africa

Publisher’s Platform: Post Poisoned – What to do with my Food Safety Magic Wand?

Publisher’s Platform: A few heroes of ‘Poisoned’ – Darin Detwiler

Publisher’s Platform: Rosa DeLauro is just one of the heroes of ‘Poisoned’

Publisher’s Platform: Why is it legal to sell meat contaminated with Salmonella

Publisher’s Platform: Two weeks until ‘Poisoned’ hits Netflix

Its official, the trailer for Poisoned is out

Publisher’s Platform: The House Appropriations Committee Directs the FDA to Restructure – will it be Ignored?

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