Bill Marler

Publisher’s Platform: Captain Obvious — Nearby cow shit can cause E. coli outbreaks in leafy greens

Opinion This is not meant as a criticism of my friends at the FDA or the good people at LGMA – California and Arizona – or at Western Growers, United Fresh or

By Bill Marler

/ 22 May 2020

Publisher’s Platform: Captain Obvious — Nearby cow shit can cause E. coli outbreaks in leafy greens

Ever wished you could smoke a joint with your dog?

Opinion Editor’s note: Each Spring, attorneys Bill Marler and Denis Stearns teach a Food Safety Litigation course in the LL.M. Program in Agricultural and Food Law at the

By Guest Contributor

/ 18 May 2020

Ever wished you could smoke a joint with your dog?

Publisher’s Platform: Please protect our food supply, food workers and those food insecure during COVID-19

Opinion Dear Speaker Pelosi, Leader McCarthy, Leader McConnell and Leader Schumer, As Congress develops urgently needed additional legislation to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, legislators must do much

By Bill Marler

/ 6 Apr 2020

Publisher’s Platform: Please protect our food supply, food workers and those food insecure during COVID-19

Meat industry wants more comment time for ‘most significant policy change’ in decades

Food safety attorney Bill Marler’s petition to ban meat from containing any of 31 Salmonella outbreak serotypes “would be one of the most significant policy changes affecting the meat

By Dan Flynn

/ 23 Mar 2020

Meat industry wants more comment time for ‘most significant policy change’ in decades

The petition perspective from one catbird seat

Opinion Julie Larson Bricher recently wrote an article on MeatingPlace.com outlining a petition that asks the USDA to declare 31 Salmonella serotypes as adulterants in meat and poultry. The

By Coral Beach

/ 26 Jan 2020

The petition perspective from one catbird seat

Meat and poultry industries end week in silence over Marler Salmonella petition

With annual retail sales approaching $100 billion, an effective structure of industry associations, and powerful K Street lobbyists, this week is ending in surprising silence from the powerful meat and

By Dan Flynn

/ 23 Jan 2020

Meat and poultry industries end week in silence over Marler Salmonella petition

Beach Beat: The faces behind the petition

Opinion If you haven’t heard, a Seattle attorney is petitioning the USDA to make it illegal to sell meat and poultry that is contaminated with Salmonella. Yep, as of

By Coral Beach

/ 20 Jan 2020

Beach Beat: The faces behind the petition

Marler ups the ante on meat industry; petitions USDA to ban 31 Salmonella strains

Attorneys representing the Center for Science in the Public Interest sued USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service in 2014 because the agency would not declare the most dangerous Salmonella

By Dan Flynn

/ 20 Jan 2020

Marler ups the ante on meat industry; petitions USDA to ban 31 Salmonella strains

Publisher’s Platform: Need an easy resolution? Get a hep A vaccination

One dose of single-antigen hepatitis A vaccine has been shown to control outbreaks of hepatitis A and provides up to 95 percent seroprotection in healthy individuals for up to 11

By Bill Marler

/ 1 Jan 2020

Publisher’s Platform: Need an easy resolution? Get a hep A vaccination

Publisher’s Platform: Wise words from Barfblog — What is the one food you will not eat? Raw sprouts tops the list, always

Opinion According to the FDA, Sprouts Unlimited of Marion, IA, is recalling clover spouts in 4-ounce packages because they may be contaminated with Escherichia coli O103 bacteria (E. coli O103)

By Bill Marler

/ 29 Dec 2019

Publisher’s Platform: Wise words from Barfblog — What is the one food you will not eat? Raw sprouts tops the list, always

UPDATED – Publisher’s Platform: A Thanksgiving question to the FDA, CDC and state and local health authorities

Opinion On this Thanksgiving I want to say how thankful I am for those who work to protect the food we eat. Although for 26 years I have been primarily

By Bill Marler

/ 28 Nov 2019

UPDATED – Publisher’s Platform: A Thanksgiving question to the FDA, CDC and state and local health authorities

FDA hid romaine-related outbreak from public view for more than 6 weeks

A not so public public outbreak of E. coli infections linked to romaine lettuce sickened people in a dozen states from July through early September, but U.S. officials did

By Coral Beach

/ 1 Nov 2019

FDA hid romaine-related outbreak from public view for more than 6 weeks

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Publisher’s Platform: Captain Obvious — Nearby cow shit can cause E. coli outbreaks in leafy greens

Ever wished you could smoke a joint with your dog?

Publisher’s Platform: Please protect our food supply, food workers and those food insecure during COVID-19

Meat industry wants more comment time for ‘most significant policy change’ in decades

The petition perspective from one catbird seat

Meat and poultry industries end week in silence over Marler Salmonella petition

Beach Beat: The faces behind the petition

Marler ups the ante on meat industry; petitions USDA to ban 31 Salmonella strains

Publisher’s Platform: Need an easy resolution? Get a hep A vaccination

Publisher’s Platform: Wise words from Barfblog — What is the one food you will not eat? Raw sprouts tops the list, always

UPDATED – Publisher’s Platform: A Thanksgiving question to the FDA, CDC and state and local health authorities

FDA hid romaine-related outbreak from public view for more than 6 weeks