Bill Marler

Publisher’s Platform: Could Dole and Fresh Express face criminal charges for Listeria outbreaks?

Opinion Congress passed the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in 1938 in reaction to growing public safety demands. The primary goal of the Act was to protect the health

By Bill Marler

/ 23 Dec 2021

Publisher’s Platform: Could Dole and Fresh Express face criminal charges for Listeria outbreaks?

Dole recalls salads because of new deadly outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections

The FDA, along with the CDC and state and local partners, is investigating a multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections potentially linked to Dole packaged leafy greens. A recall has

By News Desk

/ 22 Dec 2021

Dole recalls salads because of new deadly outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections

Publisher’s Platform: Enoki mushroom recall a reminder of 2020 deadly Listeria outbreak

– Opinion – The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) late Saturday told consumers not to eat the following brand of fresh enoki mushrooms after a sample tested positive for

By Bill Marler

/ 6 Dec 2021

Publisher’s Platform: Enoki mushroom recall a reminder of 2020 deadly Listeria outbreak

Publisher’s Platform: Is FDA creating a HACCP program for produce?

Opinion HACCP: A systematic approach to the identification, evaluation, and control of food safety hazards.” – So says the FDA. Although yesterday’s announcement (FDA Proposes Changes to Food Safety Modernization

By Bill Marler

/ 3 Dec 2021

Publisher’s Platform: Is FDA creating a HACCP program for produce?

Letter From the Editor: What’s coming into focus for 2022

Opinion This time we’ve been living through reminds me of when I first started going to the movies. A simple technique they often used back then was to start

By Dan Flynn

/ 1 Dec 2021

Letter From the Editor: What’s coming into focus for 2022

Publisher’s Platform: Mr. Bill goes to Washington again, and again, and again

Opinion In 2011 I wrote: Last week the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced a recall of ground turkey products due to “possible” Salmonella contamination. According to the

By Bill Marler

/ 19 Nov 2021

Publisher’s Platform: Mr. Bill goes to Washington again, and again, and again

Publisher’s Platform: Hey Starbucks — Serve your patrons better, vaccinate your employees against hepatitis A

Opinion The Camden County Health Department in New Jersey has been notified by a health care provider that a food handler employed at a Starbucks at 1490 Blackwood Clementon Road

By Bill Marler

/ 19 Nov 2021

Publisher’s Platform: Hey Starbucks — Serve your patrons better, vaccinate your employees against hepatitis A

Publisher’s Platform: Sorry to be a pest CDC and FDA, but are not the 2019 and 2020 Jimmy John’s “Sproutbreaks” one outbreak with 73 sick with E. coli O103 from one seed supplier?

Opinion If the FDA, CDC, Jimmy John’s corporate officials, and the seed supplier (ISS) had gone public in 2019, would 51 have been sickened in 2020? Here is the

By Bill Marler

/ 4 Nov 2021

Publisher’s Platform: Sorry to be a pest CDC and FDA, but are not the 2019 and 2020 Jimmy John’s “Sproutbreaks” one outbreak with 73 sick with E. coli O103 from one seed supplier?

Publisher’s Platform: Message to the CDC — It is time, past time, to change views on hepatitis A vaccines for food handlers

Opinion I will spare you the list of hepatitis A cases that I have been involved with since 1998 when I represented 30 people exposed in a Seattle, Washington Subway

By Bill Marler

/ 3 Nov 2021

Publisher’s Platform: Message to the CDC — It is time, past time, to change views on hepatitis A vaccines for food handlers

The problem of salmonellosis and politics

Opinion During the past half century the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s annual reports show that salmonellosis has been the leading cause of foodborne death. Salmonellosis is caused

By Carl Custer

/ 2 Nov 2021

The problem of salmonellosis and politics

Publisher’s Platform: Some light reading about poison chicken

Opinion Thank you ProPublica for the searing story about industry’s and government’s failures: “America’s Food Safety System Failed to Stop a Salmonella Epidemic. It’s Still Making

By Bill Marler

/ 30 Oct 2021

Publisher’s Platform: Some light reading about poison chicken

Publisher’s Platform: What did we learn – or not – from the 2020 onion outbreak

Opinion The last few weeks have sounded remarkably familiar to Spring 2020 when we faced a nationwide (and Canada) Salmonella outbreak linked to California grown onions. We are now facing

By Bill Marler

/ 24 Oct 2021

Publisher’s Platform: What did we learn – or not – from the 2020 onion outbreak

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Publisher’s Platform: Could Dole and Fresh Express face criminal charges for Listeria outbreaks?

Dole recalls salads because of new deadly outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections

Publisher’s Platform: Enoki mushroom recall a reminder of 2020 deadly Listeria outbreak

Publisher’s Platform: Is FDA creating a HACCP program for produce?

Letter From the Editor: What’s coming into focus for 2022

Publisher’s Platform: Mr. Bill goes to Washington again, and again, and again

Publisher’s Platform: Hey Starbucks — Serve your patrons better, vaccinate your employees against hepatitis A

Publisher’s Platform: Sorry to be a pest CDC and FDA, but are not the 2019 and 2020 Jimmy John’s “Sproutbreaks” one outbreak with 73 sick with E. coli O103 from one seed supplier?

Publisher’s Platform: Message to the CDC — It is time, past time, to change views on hepatitis A vaccines for food handlers

The problem of salmonellosis and politics

Publisher’s Platform: Some light reading about poison chicken

Publisher’s Platform: What did we learn – or not – from the 2020 onion outbreak