The FDA has published the following warning: Consumers worldwide should not use any ByHeart brand infant formula as all ByHeart products are included in this recall. As we know, as of November 26, 2025, a total of 37 infants with suspected or confirmed infant botulism and confirmed exposure to ByHeart Whole Nutrition infant formula (various […]
I am off to IAFP on Sunday. I’m doing a “Point/Counterpoint” on what responsibility consumers have for food safety. Who's to Blame? Do Consumers own a Piece of Food Safety? from Bill Marler
Federal inmate Stewart Parnell, the former chief executive and part owner of the now defunct Peanut Corporation of America, is the featured subject of a new episode of CNBC’s “American Greed.” The episode premieres at 10 p.m. EDT/PDT on Monday, July 3. Stewart, 63, is serving a 28-year prison sentence for knowingly shipping peanut products […]
Lawyers Who Are Changing the World By Jeff Tolman I have great respect for people who take control of their lives and create a successful life and practice in the changing and evolving legal universe. That would be Bill Marler, Senior Partner at Marler Clark, The Food Safety Law Firm, in Seattle. Bill is considered […]
“There once was a lawyer sitting in a bar in Auckland” – sounds like the beginning of a bad joke. I just finished up the Food Security Conference and extracted myself from the battle over eating medium rare hamburgers in New Zealand, when I had time to read the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report […]
I give credit to the scientists for having a bit of ironic humor in an article recently published about one of the foods I do avoid. I could never recall if it was the months with or without an “r” that you were supposed to avoid eating raw oysters. Now, I guess it really does […]
Being in New Zealand, some 17 hours and a day ahead of the U.S. Midwest, should have given me a slight advantage of knowing what was happening in the U.S., but I missed a call from AP’s David Pitt for a comment on a court ruling that is making food executives take notice. As David […]
I have been thinking about Dave Theno a lot today. I recall that several time before I wrote the below, Dave an I shared a few glasses of good wine. I am not sure what I’m going to do without Dave. Food Safety is the crazy uncle of corporate food production – everyone has one, […]
In 2013, I wrote a piece on my blog about “Why I Love my Job.” Its ironic how much of my job and my life over they last 25 years has been intertwined with Dave Theno. I will miss the occasions we shared a good meal – Dave with a rare steak and mine well-done […]
I got up early this AM and was checking emails when one landed in my inbox alerting me of the passing of a real hero and friend. I was just with him a few weeks ago when he got the NSF Lifetime Achievement Award at the Food Safety Summit. I do not have it in […]
WFFA reports: An Azle family wants to warn others after both their young boys were hospitalized with E. coli earlier this year. “It’s awful. You can’t do anything but just sit there and watch your child hurt,” said Emily Miller. Miller’s sons Brayden, 7, and Dylan, 5, were both diagnosed with an E. coli infection, […]
In the last two months, in between legal work that has taken me from Hawaii, Salt Lake City and Portland, Maine, I have had the honor to speak on food safety at the following venues: Food Safety Summit – Chicago Michigan State University – Lansing Missouri Food Safety Task Force – St. Louis Institute of […]
Dr. Sherlita Amler, Westchester County’s Health Commissioner, is encouraging people who consumed beverages at Monteverde at Oldstone, a restaurant and event space at 28 Bear Mountain Bridge Road in Cortlandt Manor, to protect themselves against Hepatitis A following confirmation that an employee with the disease worked at the restaurant while infectious. Hepatitis A is a […]
Heath officials have determined the source of a norovirus that sickened dozens of people attending a festival at the Northern Wisconsin State Fairgrounds last month. Wisconsin Department of Health Services spokeswoman Jennifer Miller told the Leader-Telegram the gastroenteritis outbreak at the Special Kids Day event was caused by contaminated food. Miller says multiple stool samples […]
Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women. The following products are being recalled by the firm. 1 lb. bags of soybean sprouts in clear plastic bags labeled “Good Seed Soy Bean Sprouts” […]
On May 16, Hilo Fish Company notified the FDA that it had submitted samples of additional shipments held in its cold storage facility in Hawaii to a private laboratory for testing and received additional positive results for the hepatitis A virus. Imported tuna products from this facility were sourced from Sustainable Seafood Company and Santa […]