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: The genome doesn't lie

For companies, choosing not to look is not a defense. It is willful blindness, and juries understand it instantly.

By Bill Marler

/ 29 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: The genome doesn't lie

Publisher’s Platform: I’ve written the letters. Now I’m asking 55,000 of You — What’s the next move — Ideas?

In the last seven months this country has had two outbreaks of infant botulism, both traced to powdered whole-milk infant formula.

By Bill Marler

/ 26 Jun 2026

Publisher’s Platform: I’ve written the letters. Now I’m asking 55,000 of You — What’s the next move — Ideas?

Publisher's Platform: Nara used same supply chain as ByHeart

Nara Organics products are made in Germany, but the company began using whole milk from Organic West and Dairy Farmers of America when it first began selling infant formula.

By Bill Marler

/ 23 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: Nara used same supply chain as ByHeart

Publisher's Platform: A company’s name is not a trade secret

The FDA hides behind the Trade Secrets Act and FOIA Exemption 4, and it treats the name of a food company linked to an outbreak as if it were a proprietary formula.

By Bill Marler

/ 22 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: A company’s name is not a trade secret

Publisher's Platform: FDA’s ByHeart inspection report is finally public — everyone owns the bottle

On Thursday, June 11, 2026, the FDA quietly posted to its website the document those of us investigating the ByHeart infant-botulism outbreak have waited months to see: the complete

By Bill Marler

/ 17 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: FDA’s ByHeart inspection report is finally public — everyone owns the bottle

Publisher's Platform: The genome doesn’t lie

When I started suing food companies more than thirty years ago, after E. coli O157:H7 in undercooked Jack in the Box hamburgers killed four children and sickened hundreds, proving

By Bill Marler

/ 16 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: Two botulism outbreaks in seven months — where are the FDA and the formula industry on the formula we feed our kids?

For the second time in seven months, I am writing about a baby formula that is carrying the toxin that causes botulism.

By Bill Marler

/ 14 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: Two botulism outbreaks in seven months — where are the FDA and the formula industry on the formula we feed our kids?

Publisher's Platform: We’re turning off the smoke detectors on America’s food supply

The people who find foodborne outbreaks are being fired, defunded, and disbanded — and the bugs do not care.

By Bill Marler

/ 11 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: We’re turning off the smoke detectors on America’s food supply

Publisher’s Platform: Thirty Years of Questions I get Asked: Straight answers for food company executives and lawmakers

I have spent more than thirty years on one side of the food safety fight, ever since the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak. In that time, I have sat across the deposition table from a lot of food company executives and testified in front of a fair number of legislators.

By Bill Marler

/ 9 Jun 2026

Publisher’s Platform: Thirty Years of Questions I get Asked: Straight answers for food company executives and lawmakers

Publisher's Platform: The quiet way raw milk can paralyze you

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By Bill Marler

/ 9 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: The quiet way raw milk can paralyze you

Publisher's Platform: Redactions and the move towards radical transparency

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By Bill Marler

/ 8 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: Redactions and the move towards radical transparency

Publisher's Platform: World Food Safety Day 2026: From Burden to Solutions — If We Don't Look Away

Today is World Food Safety Day, and this year the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization have given us a theme that sounds almost like it was written for the work I have spent the last three decades doing: "From burden to solutions – safe food everywhere."

By Bill Marler

/ 7 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: World Food Safety Day 2026: From Burden to Solutions — If We Don't Look Away

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Bill Marler

Publisher's Platform: The genome doesn't lie

Publisher’s Platform: I’ve written the letters. Now I’m asking 55,000 of You — What’s the next move — Ideas?

Publisher's Platform: Nara used same supply chain as ByHeart

Publisher's Platform: A company’s name is not a trade secret

Publisher's Platform: FDA’s ByHeart inspection report is finally public — everyone owns the bottle

Publisher's Platform: The genome doesn’t lie

Publisher's Platform: Two botulism outbreaks in seven months — where are the FDA and the formula industry on the formula we feed our kids?

Publisher's Platform: We’re turning off the smoke detectors on America’s food supply

Publisher’s Platform: Thirty Years of Questions I get Asked: Straight answers for food company executives and lawmakers

Publisher's Platform: The quiet way raw milk can paralyze you

Publisher's Platform: Redactions and the move towards radical transparency

Publisher's Platform: World Food Safety Day 2026: From Burden to Solutions — If We Don't Look Away