John Munsell, known to the readers of Mother Jones as – “Meatpacking Maverick – Montana meatpacker John Munsell’s against-the-odds struggle for improved food safety” – by Michael Scherer, and to the readers of Marler Blog, one of its most consistent commentators. I met John – well talked to him in the early spring of 2002. [...]
On August 18, 2008 after years of hand wringing, the FSIS finally put public health before “proprietary” business interests when it made the following rule: 9 C.F.R. § 390.10 Availability of Lists of Retail Consignees during Meat or Poultry Product Recalls The Administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service will make publicly available the [...]
On Sunday, a seven-year-old girl died from an E. coli infection that may be linked to an E. coli outbreak associated with consuming ground beef produced by Valley Meats LLC . In response to this outbreak, the company recalled over 95,000 pounds of ground beef products that had been sold to restaurants and food service [...]
White House: Stricter Food Safety Rules are Coming – Its About Time The White House is pledging stricter oversight of food safety in response to a Salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 500 people in the United States and Canada and killed at least eight. Press secretary Robert Gibbs said Friday that President Barack [...]
Mr. Bill Does Twitter Always looking for another way to drive our food safety message, I am now trying twitter.com. We shall see Mr. Bill. Posted on December 11, 2008 by Bill Marler Tags: Lawyer Op-Ed More: continued here Tags: 2008, E, Food, Food safety, Law, The
Marler Clark Calls on S&S Foods to Pay E. Coli Boy Scouts’ Medical Bills and Parents’ Lost Wages Posted on August 9, 2008 by E. coli Attorney “Blog Release” Bill Marler, food safety advocate and E. coli attorney, whose Seattle law firm, Marler Clark, has been contacted by victims of the E. coli outbreak traced [...]
My phone rings – I pick it up. I had a nice chat with the folks at Levick about the PR nightmare that companies get themselves into during a foodborne illness outbreak: Attorney Bill Marler, of the Seattle-based firm Marler Clark, LLP, PS, is an accomplished personal injury lawyer and a major force affecting food [...]
According to Jane Zhang of the Wall Street Journal, “the issue of food safety is also gaining attention on the campaign trail. Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, introduced legislation that, among other things, aims to identify the needs of state health departments and increase the sharing of information among public-health [...]
Who Is Minding The Store? Posted on June 30, 2008 by Bill Marler If you weren’t able to join us in Seattle for the conference Marler Clark sponsored in April, here’s the next best thing. We’ve posted the power point presentations from “Who’s Minding the Store: The Current State of Food Safety and How it [...]
Health officials have linked Kroger ground beef to an Ohio and Michigan E. coli outbreak. “Whether the source of the E. coli is the grocery store or its suppliers,” said Fred Pritzker, a leading food safety attorney, “it is only fair that the retailer pay for the medical bills of its injured customers. The families [...]
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