Bill Marler
Food Safety News
Austin, TX, United States
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Publisher's Platform: It's time to deal with hepatitis A and food service workers
-- OPINION -- ACIP SecretariatAdvisory Committee on Immunization Practices 1600 Clifton Road, N.E., Mailstop H24-8Atlanta, GA 30329-4027acip@cdc.gov → Read More
Publisher's Platform: Twenty-eight minutes with FDA Commissioner Califf
I was given some time to talk with Dr. Califf about the recommendation by the Reagan-Udall Task Force he empowered to give recommendations as to how the → Read More
Mr. President, Mr. HHS Secretary, FDA Commissioner, Put me out of business, please!
Opinion I am a trial lawyer who has for the last 30 years built a practice on food pathogens. Since the Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak in → Read More
Publisher's Platform: Putting the F
-- OPINION -- Dr. Califf, I have deep admiration for your past and ongoing public service. The hard work of trying to protect the food and drug supply in → Read More
Publisher's Platform: Is it past time for a warning label on sprouts?
-- OPINION -- According to the CDC, as of December 29, 2022, a total of 15 people infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella have been reported from → Read More
Publisher's Platform: History of 'sprout breaks' and why food safety folks avoid them
-- OPINION -- This is something I posted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thank you www.barfblog.com As far back as September 1998, FDA issued a warning → Read More
Publisher's Platform: A little food safety fiction – sorta
-- OPINION -- A produce nightmare at retail – the only thing those consumers will remember is your father’s restaurant Your father had a great idea for a → Read More
Publisher's Platform: My 5 minutes with FDA
Its a long flight from the “other Washington” for my 5 minutes of testimony before the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA’s Independent Expert Panel → Read More
Publisher's Platform: Colonel Colon and his League of Fecal Fighters coming soon to help make your food safer
Over a decade ago, the mom of two clients who both developed acute kidney failure after consuming E. coli O157:H7-tainted spinach sent me an → Read More
Publisher's Platform: Salmonella peanut butter outbreaks – what have we learned since 2008?
- OPINION - Friday night the FDA, along with CDC and state and local partners, reported that they are investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella → Read More
Publisher's Platform: Mr. Abbott, you are going to face criminal sanctions
- OPINION - According to the CDC and FDA, at least 4 kids were sickened and of those two died, from drinking Abbott infant formula. Abbott denies the → Read More
Publisher's Platform: Abbott and public health officials have failed in their duty to protect the most vulnerable
- OPINION - From September 2021 to February 2022, the CDC received reports of Cronobacter bacteria cases in infants in Minnesota, Ohio and Texas that → Read More
Publisher's Platform: Frozen pizzas from the Nestlé Buitoni brand Fraîch’Up likely have sickened several hundred
- OPINION - “In the United States, Escherichia coli O157:H7 causes ≈73,000 infections and 60 deaths annually (1). Infection progresses to hemolytic uremic → Read More
Publisher's Platform: Get Cronobacter sakazakii on the Nationally Notifiable Disease List – Sign the Petition!
In 2022 alone, two infants have died and five more are extremely ill due to a deadly bacteria called Cronobacter sakazakii. It is in contaminated baby → Read More
Publisher's Platform: Children under 5 sickened by Salmonella chocolate
Kinder products have been recalled after a Salmonella outbreak, which has mostly affected children under the age of five. As of April 20, the UK Health → Read More
Publisher's Platform: Hey Chicken Little, the sky will not fall if Salmonella is deemed an adulterant
If Salmonella is deemed an adulterant – at least those that sicken and kill us – the sky will not fall – history as a guide. On Jan. 19, 2020, we filed a → Read More
Publisher's Platform: Yet another hepatitis A ill food service worker calls CDC Guidelines into Question
- OPINION - Come on CDC, let’s call for hepatitis A vaccines for all food service workers. There has been an ongoing and massive hepatitis A outbreak that → Read More
Publisher's Platform: Watch what you eat while Pregnant
Pregnant women naturally have a depressed cell-mediated immune system. In addition, the immune systems of fetuses and newborns are very immature and are → Read More
Publisher's Platform: Infant Formula Cronobacter and Salmonella Outbreak: I still have questions
I might have missed it, but has anyone received answers to these basic questions?Question 1: Given that illnesses began in early September 2021, did that → Read More
Publisher’s Platform: A few Senators seems bothered by deadly pathogens in infant formula
“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Winston Churchill I was heartened a few days ago to see someone in politics → Read More