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: Redactions and the move towards radical transparency

-- OPINION --

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

Publisher's Platform: 866 Million Reasons to Stop Working in Silos

World Food Safety Day is June 7, 2026 Every few years a number comes along that stops me cold, even after three decades of doing this work. This week, that

By Bill Marler

/ 5 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: 866 Million Reasons to Stop Working in Silos

Publisher's Platform: What the FDA did not want you to read about the November 2024 romaine E. coli outbreak

The fully unredacted version now identifies, in plain text, what the redacted boxes were hiding

By Bill Marler

/ 4 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: What the FDA did not want you to read about the November 2024 romaine E. coli outbreak

Publisher's Platform: Where did the Boar’s Head investigations go? Hello DOJ and USDA Inspector General?

-- OPINION --

By Bill Marler

/ 3 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: The infant formula industry was warned about Botulism long before outbreak

-- OPINION --

By Bill Marler

/ 2 Jun 2026

Publisher’s Platform: We Haven’t Finished the Job - A Warning From the Kebab Shop

I have spent more than thirty years representing people whose lives were shattered by a single meal. I have sat across from parents in hospital waiting rooms, watched children in kidney failure, and held the hands of families who buried kids who just wanted a hamburger.

By Bill Marler

/ 30 May 2026

Publisher’s Platform: We Haven’t Finished the Job - A Warning From the Kebab Shop

Publisher's Platform: What industry doesn't want you to know about cantaloupe

Cantaloupe is almost perfectly designed to make people sick

By Bill Marler

/ 22 May 2026

Publisher's Platform: What industry doesn't want you to know about cantaloupe

Publisher's Platform: The Justice Department is still enforcing the FDCA

Many of the below criminal cases stemmed from outbreaks that sickened consumers that I had the honor to represent. It appears that the risk of criminal prosecution for food crimes is still real.

By Bill Marler

/ 21 May 2026

Publisher's Platform: The Justice Department is still enforcing the FDCA

Publisher’s Platform: After over 30 years suing food companies, here’s what I won’t eat

After all of those cases, after all of those depositions and funerals, you stop thinking of food safety as an abstraction.

By Bill Marler

/ 10 May 2026

Publisher’s Platform: After over 30 years suing food companies, here’s what I won’t eat

Publisher’s Platform: Playing 'Romaine Roulette'

Between 2015 and 2021, E. coli O157-contaminated romaine was implicated in seven outbreaks in the United States, resulting in 4,274 laboratory-confirmed illnesses, 766 hospitalizations, and 11 deaths.

By Bill Marler

/ 4 May 2026

Publisher’s Platform: Playing 'Romaine Roulette'

Publisher's Platform: It's time to get the S*%! out of chicken and declare Salmonella an adulterant

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that Salmonella causes approximately 1.35 million illnesses, 26,500 hospitalizations, and 420 deaths in the United States every year.

By Bill Marler

/ 28 Apr 2026

Publisher's Platform: It's time to get the S*%! out of chicken and declare Salmonella an adulterant

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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

Publisher's Platform: 866 Million Reasons to Stop Working in Silos

Publisher's Platform: What the FDA did not want you to read about the November 2024 romaine E. coli outbreak

Publisher's Platform: Where did the Boar’s Head investigations go? Hello DOJ and USDA Inspector General?

Publisher's Platform: The infant formula industry was warned about Botulism long before outbreak

Publisher’s Platform: We Haven’t Finished the Job - A Warning From the Kebab Shop

Publisher's Platform: What industry doesn't want you to know about cantaloupe

Publisher's Platform: The Justice Department is still enforcing the FDCA

Publisher’s Platform: After over 30 years suing food companies, here’s what I won’t eat

Publisher’s Platform: Playing 'Romaine Roulette'

Publisher's Platform: It's time to get the S*%! out of chicken and declare Salmonella an adulterant