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Publisher's Platform: The lettuce pitchforks are out -- 7 letters in 14 days

Not one of these letters has been publicly answered

By Bill Marler

/ 29 Jul 2026

Publisher's Platform: The lettuce pitchforks are out -- 7 letters in 14 days

Publisher's Platform: Does a public swimming complex adjacent to Taylor Farms lettuce operation pose a Cyclospora threat? Probably.

Two hundred and thirty-five meters from the processing building — roughly eight hundred feet, a three-minute walk — sits Balneario Las Fajanas, a public thermal-water bathing complex with pools, water slides, changing rooms, showers, grills and picnic shelters, open every day of the year.

By Bill Marler

/ 24 Jul 2026

Publisher's Platform: Does a public swimming complex adjacent to Taylor Farms lettuce operation pose a Cyclospora threat? Probably.

Publisher’s Platform: The Traceability Rule was supposed to be law in January. This cyclospora outbreak started in May.

I have spent more than thirty years watching companies mistake a negative product sample for innocence. Product testing finds contamination when you are lucky. Cyclospora makes you unlucky more often than most.

By Bill Marler

/ 21 Jul 2026

Publisher’s Platform: The Traceability Rule was supposed to be law in January. This cyclospora outbreak started in May.

Publisher's Platform: Reap What You Sow

Fourteen years ago, the produce lobby decided it did not want anyone testing its lettuce. This summer it got a look at the world it asked for. You reaped what you sowed. It is time to plant something better.

By Bill Marler

/ 19 Jul 2026

Publisher's Platform: Sen. Klobuchar wants food safety programs the Administration cut put back

She’s right — and the cyclospora numbers are worse than her letter says.

By Bill Marler

/ 16 Jul 2026

Publisher's Platform: Sen. Klobuchar wants food safety programs the Administration cut put back

Publisher's Platform: We made the everglades a python buffet -- we’re doing the same thing to the salad bar

We made the Everglades a python buffet by looking away for twenty years. We’re setting the salad bar up the same way — one defunded surveillance program at a time.

By Bill Marler

/ 13 Jul 2026

Publisher's Platform: We made the everglades a python buffet -- we’re doing the same thing to the salad bar

Publisher's Platform: They stopped counting, and now they say they can’t see

If you want to make foodborne disease disappear, don’t investigate foodborne disease. That’s not a slippery-slope warning anymore. As of July 1, 2025, it’s the operating plan.

By Bill Marler

/ 10 Jul 2026

Publisher's Platform: They stopped counting, and now they say they can’t see

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: 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: 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?

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Publisher's Platform

Publisher's Platform: The lettuce pitchforks are out -- 7 letters in 14 days

Publisher's Platform: Does a public swimming complex adjacent to Taylor Farms lettuce operation pose a Cyclospora threat? Probably.

Publisher’s Platform: The Traceability Rule was supposed to be law in January. This cyclospora outbreak started in May.

Publisher's Platform: Reap What You Sow

Publisher's Platform: Sen. Klobuchar wants food safety programs the Administration cut put back

Publisher's Platform: We made the everglades a python buffet -- we’re doing the same thing to the salad bar

Publisher's Platform: They stopped counting, and now they say they can’t see

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

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: 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?

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