Opinion & Contributed Articles

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?

The Fallacy of APHA vs Butz on the Salmonella situation

Opinion Frequently, APHA vs Butz (1974) is cited as a reason that Salmonella cannot be declared an adulterant. That decision was based in part on an unsubstantiated political opinion contrary

By Carl Custer

/ 3 Dec 2021

The Fallacy of APHA vs Butz on the Salmonella situation

Publisher’s Platform: I still want to go out of business — it’s Salmonella this time

Opinion Some, I am sure, are a bit tired of my ranting about the FSIS doing its job and deeming Salmonella that causes human illness an adulterant in meat. Fact,

By Bill Marler

/ 29 Nov 2021

Publisher’s Platform: I still want to go out of business — it’s Salmonella this time

The shifting sands of food recalls

Editor’s note: This was originally posted on FreshPlaza.com and is republished here with permission from the author, Astrid Van Den Broek Red, white and yellow onions. Garden salad.

By Guest Contributor

/ 28 Nov 2021

USDA, Salmonella, and the Cowardly Lion: A profile in the lack of courage

OPINION In an article that will soon be published in the Seattle Law Review, I take a look at food safety through the lens of the “pink slime” controversy and

By Denis Stearns

/ 25 Nov 2021

Publisher’s Platform: Let’s talk Turkey about Salmonella being an Adulterant

Remember this as you prepare Thanksgiving for your family and as you read this post – it is Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Mission Statement: Protecting the public’s health

By Bill Marler

/ 24 Nov 2021

Publisher’s Platform: Let’s talk Turkey about Salmonella being an Adulterant

Publisher’s Platform: Starbucks – offer hepatitis A vaccinations to all present and future employees and I will agree to consult with you for $1.00 and conflict Marler Clark from being on the opposite side of the courtroom – forever!

Last night the Camden County New Jersey Health Department reported that it had been notified by a health care provider that a food handler employed at a Starbucks at 1490

By Bill Marler

/ 19 Nov 2021

Publisher’s Platform: Starbucks – offer hepatitis A vaccinations to all present and future employees and I will agree to consult with you for $1.00 and conflict Marler Clark from being on the opposite side of the courtroom – forever!

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

Same canvas, different picture

Opinion By Michael Fisher The FSN article “25 years later FSIS final rule on pathogen reduction still making a difference,” tells a story through rose-colored glasses. Like Paul Wolseley of

By Guest Contributor

/ 10 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?

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

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Opinion & Contributed Articles

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

The Fallacy of APHA vs Butz on the Salmonella situation

Publisher’s Platform: I still want to go out of business — it’s Salmonella this time

The shifting sands of food recalls

USDA, Salmonella, and the Cowardly Lion: A profile in the lack of courage

Publisher’s Platform: Let’s talk Turkey about Salmonella being an Adulterant

Publisher’s Platform: Starbucks – offer hepatitis A vaccinations to all present and future employees and I will agree to consult with you for $1.00 and conflict Marler Clark from being on the opposite side of the courtroom – forever!

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

Same canvas, different picture

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

Your Support Protects Public Health