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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.

egg men illustration DeCosterIn…
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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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Publisher’s Platform: Officials still stumped by Hep A outbreak

By Bill Marler on July 24, 2016

What can the 74 Hawaii victims do to help health officials? Be your own junior epidemiologist. Sitting in my hotel room on the shores of Waikiki in the remnants of tropical storm Darby, has given…
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Publisher’s Platform: 75 sproutbreaks later, fresh raw sprouts still not safe

By Bill Marler on February 26, 2016

axx-sprout2-13-16_9Thanks to my friends at Barfblog for keeping track of the Sproutbreaks over the last couple of decades. These outbreaks have been some of the largest and most deadly in the world. Now we…
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Publisher’s Platform: A Reasonable Proposal for Safer Meat

By Bill Marler on March 14, 2015

http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-image-fast-food-hamburger-image12143746New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has once again proposed a law that would give the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) the ability that it does not believe it already has…
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Publisher’s Platform: Time to Discard That Wire Brush?

By Bill Marler on November 18, 2014

Internal injuries from ingestion of wire grill-cleaning bristles are well documented.  In a single hospital system, 12 patients with injuries due to ingestion of wire bristles were reported between July 2009 and June 2012. The…
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