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 […]
KUOW’s Marcie Sillman talks with food safety attorney Bill Marler about his lasting impact on food safety after he got his start in the E-coli outbreak of 1993. Here is the LINK.
Bill Marler made history with the horrendous 1993 Jack in the Box food poisoning outbreak. Marler represented the most seriously ill child, Brianne Kiner. Four children died and hundreds were sickened by under-cooked E. coli:O157 tainted hamburgers. It was the beginning of a long, battle to not only represent victims, but also advocate for tougher […]
Thursday, February 5, 07:00 pm on KCTS 9 HD Seattle/Yakima Duration: 0:26:46 Description: Last summer’s Carlton Complex Fire burned 250,000 acres. EarthFix correspondent Courtney Flatt shows how ecologists are working to prevent another devastating fire. Producer Terry Murphy profiles local attorney Bill Marler’s 20-year crusade to make food safer. And producer Michael Werner takes us […]
The Obama Administration is proposing a radical overhaul of the country’s food safety operations. Instead of having several bodies like the FDA, USDA, and FSIS, President Obama is proposing a single government agency that would oversee all food safety and inspection operations. Wil S. Hylton is the author of a terrifying New Yorker article about lax food […]
Published today in Fresh Fruit Portal: Nearly 20 years ago, a growing, all organic, all raw juice company saw its sales and profits ever rising. Looking for new markets to sell its “Superfood,” it reached out to the U.S. Army to sell the juice to healthy young men and women. The Army sent a food […]
President Barack Obama’s 2015 budget wants to create a new government agency dedicated to keeping the nation’s food safe. Now, who could disagree with that? Presently, The Department of Agriculture oversees the safety and inspections of meat and processed eggs and the Food and Drug Administration oversees safety of most other foods. The split oversight […]
I made the Daily Meal’s: America’s 50 Most Powerful People in Food for 2015 #43 Bill Marler, Foodborne Illness Lawyer and Attorney An accomplished personal injury and products liability attorney, Marler has been litigating foodborne illness cases since 1993, when he represented Brianne Kiner, the most seriously sickened survivor of the Jack in the Box E. […]
Next week I will be in Miami as the Keynote Speaker at the Inter-American Law Review Symposium and then to Las Vegas to be on a panel to discuss food safety responsibility from farmer to retailer at the National Grocers Association.
I listened in on the press conference today held by U.S. Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) who today introduced the Safe Food Act of 2015, which would create a single, independent food safety agency. Currently food safety oversight is split up among 15 different agencies, resulting in a patchwork where […]
Washington Beef, LLC, a Toppenish, Wash., establishment, is recalling 1,620 pounds of boneless beef trim product that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The following boneless beef product produced on Nov. 28, 2012, is subject to recall: 60 lb. bulk packs […]
I have received quite a few comments (mostly positive) on Wil S. Hylton’s article in The New Yorker – A Bug in the System – Why last night’s chicken made you sick. Although, I just figured out I might well be the bug! Although the opening tagline makes my mom happy, my kids embarrassed and […]
WIL S. HYLTON’s piece in this week’s New Yorker is worth the read.
Molly Rosbach of the Yakima Herald stepped into the tragedy that often is Listeria this morning with two stories: Listeria monocytogenes is one nasty bug and Listeria recall: How a web of oversight still couldn’t prevent an outbreak. I had a couple of things to say: Based on his experience with companies of all sizes, […]
CDC collaborated with public health officials in several states and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis infections. Results from this investigation indicated that bean sprouts produced by Wonton Foods, Inc. were the likely source of this outbreak. A total of 115 persons infected with the outbreak […]
My take from the LA TIMES: “Although I applaud that FSIS is setting standards for chicken parts, and doing product testing for salmonella and campylobacter, 15% is too high,” Seattle-based food-safety attorney Bill Marler told The Times. “Like E. coli O157:H7, salmonella and campylobacter should be zero tolerance. If you want to save people and avoid […]