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Publisher’s Platform: Why does Public Health not inform victims of the source of their illnesses?

— OPINION — I spoke with a family today to inform them that their husband/father died after suffering a Listeria infection. Until today the family did not know the cause of

By Bill Marler

/ 5 Aug 2025

Publisher’s Platform: Why does Public Health not inform victims of the source of their illnesses?

Publisher’s Platform: Kudos to USDA/FSIS for making progress on Salmonella and the public’s health.

Sure, I would like to ban all Salmonella from chicken, but I learned long ago that you never make progress by making “perfect the enemy of the good.” Making the

By Bill Marler

/ 29 Jul 2024

Publisher’s Platform: Kudos to USDA/FSIS for making progress on Salmonella and the public’s health.

Publisher’s Platform: E. coli, please go away — again

— OPINION — The Flathead City-County Health Department (FCCHD) and the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) have been working for the last month to investigate an E. coli

By Bill Marler

/ 26 Jul 2024

Publisher’s Platform: E. coli, please go away — again

Publisher’s Platform: What you need to know about Listeria during an Outbreak

According to the CDC, as of July 19, 2024, a total of 28 people infected with the outbreak strain of Listeria have been reported from 12 states – Georgia (2), Illinois

By Bill Marler

/ 19 Jul 2024

Publisher’s Platform: What you need to know about Listeria during an Outbreak

Publisher’s Platform: We lost another Food Safety Hero

I have been at IAFP this week and learned of the tragic passing of someone I have called a friend. I first met Will on the opposite side of a

By Bill Marler

/ 18 Jul 2024

Publisher’s Platform: We lost another Food Safety Hero

Publisher’s Platform: A primer on Salmonella

What is the Salmonella Bacteria? Salmonella is a bacterium that causes one of the most common enteric (intestinal) infections in the United States – salmonellosis. The term Salmonella refers to a

By Bill Marler

/ 3 Jun 2024

Publisher’s Platform: A primer on Salmonella

Publisher’s Platform: What you need to know about Salmonella during the Basil Outbreak

As of April 17, 2024, a total of 12 people infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella have been reported from 7 states – Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Rhode

By Bill Marler

/ 22 May 2024

Publisher’s Platform: What you need to know about Salmonella during the Basil Outbreak

Publisher’s Platform: What you need to know about E. coli during the Walnut Outbreak

As of May 16, CDC, public health and regulatory officials in several states, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are collecting different types of data to investigate

By Bill Marler

/ 22 May 2024

Publisher’s Platform: What you need to know about E. coli during the Walnut Outbreak

Publisher’s Platform: Will importing an ingredient deemed an adulterant subject an importer to potential criminal liability?

First, thank you to the people that work at the FDA. Yes, I have often been a critic of the organization (or lack thereof), but the people at the FDA

By Bill Marler

/ 15 May 2024

Publisher’s Platform: Will importing an ingredient deemed an adulterant subject an importer to potential criminal liability?

Child labor is a serial offense, and does not bode well for food safety

— ANAYLSIS — Child labor and food fraud are food manufacturing activities that don’t bode well for food safety. Food fraud comes and goes, but child labor just continues to build,

By Dan Flynn

/ 16 Apr 2024

Child labor is a serial offense, and does not bode well for food safety

Publisher’s Platform: What’s up with Salmonella and Charcuterie from Sam’s Club and Costco?

— OPINION — As of January 17, 2024, a total of 47 people infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella have been reported from 22 states – Arizona 2, Colorado 1, Connecticut 1,

By Bill Marler

/ 19 Jan 2024

Publisher’s Platform: What’s up with Salmonella and Charcuterie from Sam’s Club and Costco?

Publisher’s Platform: Post Poisoned – What to do with my Food Safety Magic Wand?

— OPINION — Over two months ago, while watching the premiere of the documentary, “Poisoned,” at the Tribeca Film Festival in NYC, I got thinking again about how little in the past

By Bill Marler

/ 5 Aug 2023

Publisher’s Platform: Post Poisoned – What to do with my Food Safety Magic Wand?

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Publisher’s Platform: Why does Public Health not inform victims of the source of their illnesses?

Publisher’s Platform: Kudos to USDA/FSIS for making progress on Salmonella and the public’s health.

Publisher’s Platform: E. coli, please go away — again

Publisher’s Platform: What you need to know about Listeria during an Outbreak

Publisher’s Platform: We lost another Food Safety Hero

Publisher’s Platform: A primer on Salmonella

Publisher’s Platform: What you need to know about Salmonella during the Basil Outbreak

Publisher’s Platform: What you need to know about E. coli during the Walnut Outbreak

Publisher’s Platform: Will importing an ingredient deemed an adulterant subject an importer to potential criminal liability?

Child labor is a serial offense, and does not bode well for food safety

Publisher’s Platform: What’s up with Salmonella and Charcuterie from Sam’s Club and Costco?

Publisher’s Platform: Post Poisoned – What to do with my Food Safety Magic Wand?