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: Restaurant Hepatitis A challenge – agree to vaccinate your employees and I will not sue you

From yesterday: “The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) is warning of a possible hep A exposure after an employee of the McDonald’s in Trumann tested positive for the virus.

By Bill Marler

/ 27 Jul 2019

Publisher’s Platform: Restaurant Hepatitis A challenge – agree to vaccinate your employees and I will not sue you

20 years for licking ice cream, 0 years for 10 Listeria illnesses with 3 deaths

Opinion I gave the office the 5th off, but had the opportunity to talk with Fox 10 about the “Blue Bell Licker.” According to the report: Police in East Texas

By Bill Marler

/ 7 Jul 2019

20 years for licking ice cream, 0 years for 10 Listeria illnesses with 3 deaths

Publisher’s Platform: Seriously, time to ban petting zoos?

Opinion This past weekend I woke up to the sad news of yet other injuries and a death linked to animal contact at a fair. San Diego County health officials

By Bill Marler

/ 2 Jul 2019

Publisher’s Platform: Seriously, time to ban petting zoos?

Publisher’s Platform: A Father’s Day without a father

My friend and former client and I have stayed in touch since the Listeria cantaloupe outbreak took his father. On this Father’s Day I asked him to put some

By Bill Marler

/ 16 Jun 2019

Publisher’s Platform: A Father’s Day without a father

Publisher’s Platform: So says the Court — FDA what are ‘high risk’ Foods?

Opinion A federal judge in California has told the Food and Drug Administration, which is the nation’s leading food regulator, to stop dragging its feet on the long-awaited rules

By Bill Marler

/ 12 Jun 2019

Publisher’s Platform: So says the Court — FDA what are ‘high risk’ Foods?

Publisher’s Platform: The Hepatitis A broken record — Restaurant workers should be vaccinated

Opinion Editor’s note: May is Hepatitis Awareness Month and today is Hepatitis Testing Day. For more information, click here to visit the CDC page. I am sure the idiom,

By Bill Marler

/ 19 May 2019

Publisher’s Platform: The Hepatitis A broken record — Restaurant workers should be vaccinated

Publisher’s Platform: If I was part of Caito Foods, I’d be nervous

Opinion Criminal prosecutions in food cases have been quiet for the last few years. Outbreak 2: The recent multistate investigation began on April 2, 2019, when CDC’s PulseNet identified

By Bill Marler

/ 29 Apr 2019

Publisher’s Platform: If I was part of Caito Foods, I’d be nervous

Publisher’s Platform: Beef and Cut Fruit Manufacturers should pay medical bills and wage loss of Salmonella and E. coli Victims

Opinion Bill Marler, food safety advocate and foodborne attorney since 1993, whose Seattle law firm, Marler Clark, has been contacted by victims of the recent E. coli O103 ground meat

By Bill Marler

/ 27 Apr 2019

Publisher’s Platform: Beef and Cut Fruit Manufacturers should pay medical bills and wage loss of Salmonella and E. coli Victims

Publisher’s Platform: Beef Industry, Seriously, I thought you were putting me out of Business?

Opinion On the anniversary of my 5,000th blog post (I’m now at 6,388) I wrote: In 2002, I wrote an Op-ed for the Denver Post entitled: “Put

By Bill Marler

/ 26 Apr 2019

Publisher’s Platform: Beef Industry, Seriously, I thought you were putting me out of Business?

Publisher’s Platform: It’s past time to offer foodservice workers Hep A vaccinations

Opinion Vaccinating food service workers will not solve the entire HAV problem — we need a nationwide focus on homelessness and drug use as well. According to a recent health warning,

By Bill Marler

/ 22 Apr 2019

Publisher’s Platform: It’s past time to offer foodservice workers Hep A vaccinations

Publisher’s Platform: On the road again — Salmonella sick tour revisited

Opinion Yesterday the CDC and FDA announced that Jensen Tuna of Louisiana was recalling frozen ground raw tuna sourced from JK Fish of Vietnam due to possible Salmonella Newport contamination.

By Bill Marler

/ 17 Apr 2019

Publisher’s Platform: On the road again — Salmonella sick tour revisited

Publisher’s Platform: An Outbreak of Salmonella linked to Caito Cut Fruit

The 2018 Salmonella Adelaide Outbreak As of July 24, 2018, 77 people infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Adelaide were reported from nine states – Arkansas 1, Florida 1, Illinois

By Bill Marler

/ 15 Apr 2019

Publisher’s Platform: An Outbreak of Salmonella linked to Caito Cut Fruit

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Publisher’s Platform: Restaurant Hepatitis A challenge – agree to vaccinate your employees and I will not sue you

20 years for licking ice cream, 0 years for 10 Listeria illnesses with 3 deaths

Publisher’s Platform: Seriously, time to ban petting zoos?

Publisher’s Platform: A Father’s Day without a father

Publisher’s Platform: So says the Court — FDA what are ‘high risk’ Foods?

Publisher’s Platform: The Hepatitis A broken record — Restaurant workers should be vaccinated

Publisher’s Platform: If I was part of Caito Foods, I’d be nervous

Publisher’s Platform: Beef and Cut Fruit Manufacturers should pay medical bills and wage loss of Salmonella and E. coli Victims

Publisher’s Platform: Beef Industry, Seriously, I thought you were putting me out of Business?

Publisher’s Platform: It’s past time to offer foodservice workers Hep A vaccinations

Publisher’s Platform: On the road again — Salmonella sick tour revisited

Publisher’s Platform: An Outbreak of Salmonella linked to Caito Cut Fruit