Opinion & Contributed Articles

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

Publisher's Platform: A company’s name is not a trade secret

The FDA hides behind the Trade Secrets Act and FOIA Exemption 4, and it treats the name of a food company linked to an outbreak as if it were a proprietary formula.

By Bill Marler

/ 22 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: A company’s name is not a trade secret

The Litigated Dish: The supply chain is not a shield

-- OPINION -- In food safety litigation, one of the most consequential, and often most contested, questions is not whether a product was contaminated, or even whether someone was harmed. It is

By Ilana Korchia

/ 18 Jun 2026

The Litigated Dish: The supply chain is not a shield

Publisher's Platform: FDA’s ByHeart inspection report is finally public — everyone owns the bottle

On Thursday, June 11, 2026, the FDA quietly posted to its website the document those of us investigating the ByHeart infant-botulism outbreak have waited months to see: the complete

By Bill Marler

/ 17 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: FDA’s ByHeart inspection report is finally public — everyone owns the bottle

Publisher's Platform: The genome doesn’t lie

When I started suing food companies more than thirty years ago, after E. coli O157:H7 in undercooked Jack in the Box hamburgers killed four children and sickened hundreds, proving

By Bill Marler

/ 16 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: The genome doesn’t lie

Publisher's Platform: Two botulism outbreaks in seven months — where are the FDA and the formula industry on the formula we feed our kids?

For the second time in seven months, I am writing about a baby formula that is carrying the toxin that causes botulism.

By Bill Marler

/ 14 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: Two botulism outbreaks in seven months — where are the FDA and the formula industry on the formula we feed our kids?

Publisher's Platform: We’re turning off the smoke detectors on America’s food supply

The people who find foodborne outbreaks are being fired, defunded, and disbanded — and the bugs do not care.

By Bill Marler

/ 11 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: We’re turning off the smoke detectors on America’s food supply

Publisher’s Platform: Thirty Years of Questions I get Asked: Straight answers for food company executives and lawmakers

I have spent more than thirty years on one side of the food safety fight, ever since the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak. In that time, I have sat across the deposition table from a lot of food company executives and testified in front of a fair number of legislators.

By Bill Marler

/ 9 Jun 2026