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Publisher’s Platform: Good riddance to bad rubbish

By Bill Marler on July 3, 2020

CNN reported this week that Coca-Cola is shutting down the juice and smoothie brand Odwalla at the end of July. Coca-Cola purchased the brand in 2001.

Coca-Cola made the call “given a rapidly shifting marketplace…
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Publisher’s Platform: Captain Obvious — Nearby cow shit can cause E. coli outbreaks in leafy greens

By Bill Marler on May 22, 2020
Opinion

This is not meant as a criticism of my friends at the FDA or the good people at LGMA – California and Arizona – or at Western Growers, United Fresh or PMA.  But seriously,…
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Publisher’s Platform: Seriously, time to ban petting zoos?

By Bill Marler on July 2, 2019
Opinion

This past weekend I woke up to the sad news of yet other injuries and a death linked to animal contact at a fair.

San Diego County health officials announced late Friday night that…
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Publisher’s Platform: Anything that causes food poisoning should be considered an adulterant

By Bill Marler on December 13, 2018
Opinion

An additional 87 ill people from 16 states were included in this investigation since the last update on Nov. 15. States with newly reported illnesses include: Michigan, Mississippi, and West Virginia.

As of Dec.…
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Publisher’s Platform: Why are these fish still on store shelves? I was wrong.

By Bill Marler on July 26, 2018

Although the brand was recalled, the Best Buy Date was not part of the recall.  My apologies to my friends at Safeway.

On July 23rd Pepperidge Farms recalled Goldfish crackers because they might be tainted…
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Publisher’s Platform: 2018 has been a Big, Bad Year for U.S. Foodborne Illnesses

By Bill Marler on July 22, 2018

First off, yes, 2018 seems to be – and we are just 1/2 way into it – a very Big, Bad year for foodborne illnesses.

Second, I am not sure why.

It could be better…
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Publisher’s Platform: Besides hepatitis A, what do McDonald’s, Applebee’s and Texas Roadhouse have in common?

By Bill Marler on April 16, 2018

Answer: They are all in Kentucky where a hepatitis A outbreak has been ongoing for months. With 272 people infected with Hepatitis A in Kentucky, restaurants must offer hepatitis A vaccines to employees – its …
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Publisher’s Platform: Tragically, “Forever Young”

By Bill Marler on February 19, 2018

My friend, Darin Detwiler, let me post this for him tonight for tomorrow:

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the day the last of four young children died during the landmark 1993 Jack in the…
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Publisher’s Platform: Six deadliest U.S. foodborne outbreaks

By Bill Marler on November 3, 2017

Although the United States is know world-wide as having one of the safest food supplies, there have been instances where some of the foods most commonly consumed in our country have resulted in tragedy.

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Publisher’s Platform: Supreme Court weighs in without a word

By Bill Marler on May 25, 2017

I can hear a bit of silence in the board rooms of America.

Monday the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeals of Austin “Jack” DeCoster and his son, Peter DeCoster, without comment.

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Publisher’s Platform: Please, put me out of business

By Bill Marler on April 23, 2017
Bill Marler testified before Congress in support of the Food Safety Modernization Act, asking the government and the food industry to put him out of business.
Bill Marler testified before Congress in support of the Food Safety Modernization Act, asking the government and the food industry to put him out of business.

From about 2011 though the…
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