Advanced Strategies for Defending and Managing High Profile Food Contamination Claims When: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 Where: Hilton San Francisco Financial District, San Francisco, CA To Learn More, Visit: http://americanconference.com/Foodborne Industry News Possible E. Coli Outbreak Investigated in NC by NEWS DESK Published on FoodSafetyNews.com Two children attending Tyro Middle School in Lexington, NC, hospitalized for severe bloody…
Expert Guest Entry by Bill Marler, Originally Posted on Marler Blog Outbreak of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O157 Infection Associated with a Restaurant San Francisco County, California – August 2013 Between Friday, August 23 and Monday, August 26, 2013, the San Francisco Department of Public Health Communicable Disease Control Unit (SFDPH CDCU) received eight…
Advanced Strategies for Defending and Managing High Profile Food Contamination Claims When: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 Where: Hilton San Francisco Financial District, San Francisco, CA Learn More & Register,Visit: http://www.americanconference.com/foodborne Industry News ‘Unprecedented surge’ in food lawsuits is driven by plaintiffs’ lawyers and advocacy groups, not consumers, claims report by Elaine Watson The number of consumer…
Expert Blog Entry by Bill Marler, Originally posted on MarlerBlog.com Outbreak No. 1: From May 2012 to April 2013 the CDC reported a total of 134 individuals infected with an outbreak strain of SalmonellaHeidelberg from 13 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state with the outbreak strain was as follows: Alabama (1),…
Ocotober 17th, 2013 – Expert Guest Entry by William (Bill) Marler, Originally Posted on MarlerBlog on 10/13/2013 Two years ago, the Center for Science in the Public Interest filed a Citizen Petition urging the USDA/FSIS to issue an interpretative rule, similar to what the agency had already done for E. coli O157:H7 in 1994 and…
Expert Guest Blog Entry by William (Bill) Marler, Originally posted on Marler Blog on 10/8/2013 Well, we are having yet another Salmonella outbreak linked to birds, this time chickens. The USDA FSIS has a (oddly termed) “Performance standard” for Salmonella in young chickens at 7.5 percent, and the reality is that what you will find in the store is…
William Marler is the managing partner of Marler Clark, The Food Safety Law Firm. An accomplished attorney and national expert in food safety, William Marler has become the most prominent foodborne illness lawyer in America and a major force in food policy in the U.S. and around the world. Marler Clark, The Food Safety Law…