Opinion & Contributed Articles

Publisher's Platform: Where did the Boar’s Head investigations go? Hello DOJ and USDA Inspector General?

-- OPINION --

By Bill Marler

/ 3 Jun 2026

Publisher's Platform: The infant formula industry was warned about Botulism long before outbreak

-- OPINION --

By Bill Marler

/ 2 Jun 2026

The Litigated Dish: Climate change may be helping Salmonella become more drug-resistant

-- OPINION --

By Ilana Korchia

/ 1 Jun 2026

The Litigated Dish: Climate change may be helping Salmonella become more drug-resistant

Publisher’s Platform: We Haven’t Finished the Job - A Warning From the Kebab Shop

I have spent more than thirty years representing people whose lives were shattered by a single meal. I have sat across from parents in hospital waiting rooms, watched children in kidney failure, and held the hands of families who buried kids who just wanted a hamburger.

By Bill Marler

/ 30 May 2026

Publisher’s Platform: We Haven’t Finished the Job - A Warning From the Kebab Shop

Bill Marler is right about food safety — but here’s what he left out

-- OPINION --

By Guest Contributor

/ 25 May 2026

Bill Marler is right about food safety — but here’s what he left out

Publisher's Platform: What industry doesn't want you to know about cantaloupe

Cantaloupe is almost perfectly designed to make people sick

By Bill Marler

/ 22 May 2026

Publisher's Platform: What industry doesn't want you to know about cantaloupe

Publisher's Platform: The Justice Department is still enforcing the FDCA

Many of the below criminal cases stemmed from outbreaks that sickened consumers that I had the honor to represent. It appears that the risk of criminal prosecution for food crimes is still real.

By Bill Marler

/ 21 May 2026

Publisher's Platform: The Justice Department is still enforcing the FDCA

Publisher’s Platform: After over 30 years suing food companies, here’s what I won’t eat

After all of those cases, after all of those depositions and funerals, you stop thinking of food safety as an abstraction.

By Bill Marler

/ 10 May 2026

Publisher’s Platform: After over 30 years suing food companies, here’s what I won’t eat

Paywalls shouldn’t block life-saving food recall information

-- OPINION --

By Guest Contributor

/ 7 May 2026

Paywalls shouldn’t block life-saving food recall information

Publisher’s Platform: Playing 'Romaine Roulette'

Between 2015 and 2021, E. coli O157-contaminated romaine was implicated in seven outbreaks in the United States, resulting in 4,274 laboratory-confirmed illnesses, 766 hospitalizations, and 11 deaths.

By Bill Marler

/ 4 May 2026

Publisher’s Platform: Playing 'Romaine Roulette'

Publisher's Platform: It's time to get the S*%! out of chicken and declare Salmonella an adulterant

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that Salmonella causes approximately 1.35 million illnesses, 26,500 hospitalizations, and 420 deaths in the United States every year.

By Bill Marler

/ 28 Apr 2026

Publisher's Platform: It's time to get the S*%! out of chicken and declare Salmonella an adulterant

FRESH Act is a rotten apple

-- OPINION --

By Center for Science in the Public Interest

/ 27 Apr 2026

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Opinion & Contributed Articles

Publisher's Platform: Where did the Boar’s Head investigations go? Hello DOJ and USDA Inspector General?

Publisher's Platform: The infant formula industry was warned about Botulism long before outbreak

The Litigated Dish: Climate change may be helping Salmonella become more drug-resistant

Publisher’s Platform: We Haven’t Finished the Job - A Warning From the Kebab Shop

Bill Marler is right about food safety — but here’s what he left out

Publisher's Platform: What industry doesn't want you to know about cantaloupe

Publisher's Platform: The Justice Department is still enforcing the FDCA

Publisher’s Platform: After over 30 years suing food companies, here’s what I won’t eat

Paywalls shouldn’t block life-saving food recall information

Publisher’s Platform: Playing 'Romaine Roulette'

Publisher's Platform: It's time to get the S*%! out of chicken and declare Salmonella an adulterant

FRESH Act is a rotten apple

Your Support Protects Public Health