Opinion & Contributed Articles

Publisher's Platform: 145? 2,000? 10? The Cyclospora Numbers Don't Add Up

The Cyclospora discrepancy isn't a scandal. It's a symptom. The cure is timely, transparent reporting, stronger federal-state coordination, and one accountable body to pull it together.

By Bill Marler

/ 9 Jul 2026

Publisher's Platform: 145? 2,000? 10? The Cyclospora Numbers Don't Add Up

Publisher's Platform: I asked USDA where the Boar’s Head criminal investigation stands – Here’s the 78-Page non-answer

It is damning. But it is not what I asked for.

By Bill Marler

/ 8 Jul 2026

Publisher’s Platform: The Safest Fourth of July in 250 Years

On the 250th birthday of a country that keeps, against long odds, getting better at feeding itself — that dream feels a little less far off than it used to. Happy Independence Day. Eat well and eat safely. We have earned both.

By Bill Marler

/ 4 Jul 2026

Publisher’s Platform: The Safest Fourth of July in 250 Years

Publisher's Platform: Nara, you knew what when? And, your words matter!

As the company that imported this formula from Europe, Nara had specific, federally mandated duties to find this hazard and make sure its supplier controlled it.

By Bill Marler

/ 2 Jul 2026

Publisher's Platform: Letter to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

Bring the FDA, Dairy Farmers of America, Organic West Milk, and Nara Organics before this Committee and put the disclosure failure of 2025 on the public record — so the next reform is built on what actually happened, not on what anyone is willing to volunteer.

By Bill Marler

/ 1 Jul 2026

Publisher's Platform: Letter to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

Publisher’s Platform: You Can’t Test One Spore Out of Five Cans — So Fund It, Inspect It, and Let the Parents Speak

The Scientific American piece is not a reason to give up. It is a blueprint: stop pretending a number on a can is a guarantee, move the controls upstream to the milk and the plant, fund the people who make any mandate real.

By Bill Marler

/ 30 Jun 2026

Publisher’s Platform: You Can’t Test One Spore Out of Five Cans — So Fund It, Inspect It, and Let the Parents Speak

Five questions to ask your grocery store about food recalls

-- OPINION --

By Guest Contributor

/ 30 Jun 2026

Five questions to ask your grocery store about food recalls

Publisher’s Platform: Mr. Abbott, You Are Not Going to Jail After All

Four years ago, I wrote two posts with titles I meant: “Mr. Abbott, you are going to face criminal sanctions” and, a few weeks earlier, “Mr. Abbott, you are going to jail for manufacturing tainted infant formula.”

By Bill Marler

/ 29 Jun 2026

Publisher’s Platform: Mr. Abbott, You Are Not Going to Jail After All

Publisher's Platform: The genome doesn't lie

For companies, choosing not to look is not a defense. It is willful blindness, and juries understand it instantly.

By Bill Marler

/ 29 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: The genome doesn't lie

Publisher’s Platform: I’ve written the letters. Now I’m asking 55,000 of You — What’s the next move — Ideas?

In the last seven months this country has had two outbreaks of infant botulism, both traced to powdered whole-milk infant formula.

By Bill Marler

/ 26 Jun 2026

Publisher’s Platform: I’ve written the letters. Now I’m asking 55,000 of You — What’s the next move — Ideas?

Publisher's Platform: Nara used same supply chain as ByHeart

Nara Organics products are made in Germany, but the company began using whole milk from Organic West and Dairy Farmers of America when it first began selling infant formula.

By Bill Marler

/ 23 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: Nara used same supply chain as ByHeart

Why factory farms are a major threat to food safety

-- OPINION --

By Guest Contributor

/ 23 Jun 2026

Why factory farms are a major threat to food safety

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Opinion & Contributed Articles

Publisher's Platform: 145? 2,000? 10? The Cyclospora Numbers Don't Add Up

Publisher's Platform: I asked USDA where the Boar’s Head criminal investigation stands – Here’s the 78-Page non-answer

Publisher’s Platform: The Safest Fourth of July in 250 Years

Publisher's Platform: Nara, you knew what when? And, your words matter!

Publisher's Platform: Letter to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

Publisher’s Platform: You Can’t Test One Spore Out of Five Cans — So Fund It, Inspect It, and Let the Parents Speak

Five questions to ask your grocery store about food recalls

Publisher’s Platform: Mr. Abbott, You Are Not Going to Jail After All

Publisher's Platform: The genome doesn't lie

Publisher’s Platform: I’ve written the letters. Now I’m asking 55,000 of You — What’s the next move — Ideas?

Publisher's Platform: Nara used same supply chain as ByHeart

Why factory farms are a major threat to food safety

Your Support Protects Public Health