Just landed in Norway, and the first thing I read off the plane was Tom Gremillion’s new piece for the Consumer Federation of America, “Food Safety and Corruption.” Read the whole thing. Nobody in Washington connects the dots on food safety better than Tom, and nobody says it more plainly. Thank you, Tom — for the piece, […]
According to the Hunstville Times, three people who have eaten bacteria-tainted lettuce at a popular Huntsville restaurant (Little Rosie’s) are suffering kidney failure, a top Madison County health official said today. Five-year-old Samuel Coggin of Meridianville was scheduled to start dialysis Tuesday evening at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Two female victims also remain hospitalized with […]
Steve Doyle of the Huntsville Times has been taking a crash course on E. coli O157:H7. It also appears that many of the Little Rosie’s customers have become extremely ill – several developing HUS. His story this morning points to the difficulty at times in pinpointing the actual source of a bacterial illness. The headline […]
China today executed the former head of its food and drug watchdog agency, who had become a symbol of the country’s wide-ranging problems on product safety. Zheng Xiaoyu’s execution was confirmed by State Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman Yan Jianyang at a news conference held to highlight efforts to improve China’s track record on food […]
The Huntsville Times reported on the expanding outbreak linked to Little Rosie’s Taqueria. Eight more people have tested positive for the potentially deadly foodborne illness, bringing the total to 15. Most of the victims are children or young adults. Five people remain hospitalized: two each at Huntsville Hospital and Crestwood Medical Center; and one at […]
Sitting in airports (in Dallas on my way to visit a client) gives you time to read. Ya’ll (tip to the South) should all pick up this week’s Newsweek. At least 300 million Chinese citizens—roughly the same number as the entire U.S. population—suffer from food-borne diseases annually, according to a recent report by the Asian […]
Since resolving the tragic cases of three wrongful deaths related to the Dole Spinach outbreak of 2006 in late March 2007, we have settled an additional twenty-six cases involving non-HUS victims over the last few weeks. Lawyers and insurance carriers for Dole, Natural Selection Foods and Mission Organic have participated in a series of meetings […]
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Canada Safeway are warning the public not to consume the fresh and frozen ground beef products listed below because the products may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 bacteria. The following products are affected by this alert: Safeway Fresh ground beef (lean, regular, extra lean and market trim). […]
According to the USDA/FSIS website, FSIS has decided to increase the number of scheduled raw ground beef product samples for FSIS E. coli O157:H7 testing that it will collect in July. The Agency has taken this action following an increased number of positive Agency E. coli O157:H7 results that occurred within a short period of […]
Andrew Martin wrote for the New York Times today: In Fear and Scandal, Some Find a New Drum to Beat The article is an interesting overview of the problems that have developed with free trade with China – with food specifically. However, I am a bit worried that if we start focusing on food from […]
I woke up this morning to the Headline in the Chicago Tribune – Suit over death cites snack food – the story goes on to talk about the lawsuit we filed in New York on behalf a very ill, but very alive, little boy: The parents of an Indiana toddler have sued the makers of […]
Dennis Ferrier reported from WSMV TV in Nashville this evening on the illness of the Bellevue toddler and the lawsuit I filed on behalf of a young boy from Indiana. The Video says it all: Bellevue Child Catches Salmonella From Health Food Parker Mitchell has been confirmed as Tennessee’s only case of salmonella poisoning linked […]
Given the recent rash of food poisoning cases coming out of China, I thought it might be helpful if I had my Bio translated into Mandarin: Bill ?Marler ???????????Marler ???L.L.P., P.S. Since 1993 ?, Bill ???????E. ??, ??????????Listeria ?Shigella ?Campylobacter ?Norovirus foodborne ????????????????????????, Bill ??????????????????Brianne Kiner ???$15.6 ??E. ????????????????????????????????????? ?5?1998 ?, ????Odwalla ??E. ??foodborne ??????????????Odwalla […]
Craig Schneider of The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) will report tomorrow: Rare strain of salmonella in rice snack hits children hardest Most of what he reports has been reported before in the last few days. On fact dis catch my eye: The recent spate of illness marked the first outbreak of salmonella wandsworth in the […]
Veggie Booty has been voluntarily recalled by the “manufacturer” Robert’s American Gourmet due to possible Salmonella contamination. The recently recalled product, Veggie Booty, was also a component of many gift baskets created by www.wellbaskets.com. Interesting statement on the Well Basket site: Well Baskets specializes in healthy get well baskets for the basic cold to the […]
It what must rank up there with one of the more stupid moves by Congress (I know there are many), on May 2, 2007, according to Senator Mary Landrieu, “in A 93-1 vote, the United States Senate today passed S. 1082, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Revitalization Act, which includes a key amendment offered […]