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 […]
The Food Safety Act of 2010 (an amalgam of S. 510, with Tester/Hagen Amendment, and H.B. 2749) was quietly signed into law by President Obama, along with a few dozen other bills, upon his return from Christmas and New Years in Hawaii. The quiet signing ceremony of legislation that passed overwhelmingly in both Houses, albeit, […]
Linda Rivera, an E. coli O157:H7 victim, was told today to consider a liver transplant and to ask if her three boys would be the donors. Linda, who Senator Reid profiled several times in the fight for the food safety bill, has remained hospitalized since May of 2009. Medical bills to date are over $5,000,000. […]
Must be my week. Goes to show that someone other than my mom reads my blog. Marler Blog: Food is a powerful component of our culture; it has the power to make or break its consumers. For those moments when food happens to harm us, we advise looking to blogs like this one to keep […]
Yesterday, we filed the fist lawsuit in Illinois stemming from the expanding Salmonella outbreak. Now today, according to the CDC, from November 1, 2010, through January 4, 2011, 112 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella serotype I 4,[5],12:i:-, whose illnesses began (onset dates) since November 1, have been reported from 18 states and […]
The Illinois Department of Agriculture says a Chicago company has recalled about 200 pounds of ground beef patties because of possible E. coli contamination. The department said Thursday the patties were produced by the Columbus Meat market Inc. on Dec. 27 and shipped to food-handling customers in the Chicago area. Each package label on the […]
2010 was a busy year of speeches around the U.S. and around the world. This year is starting out the same. I have one coming up with the public health students at the University of Washington, then onto the FDA, GAP, CSPI, GMA and then off to Dubai – and that is only the next […]
A commenter on an earlier post said: “do you think companies want to make people sick and lose millions of dollars???” I think the easy answer is to say of course not. But, in my experience, few of the food companies that I have sued in the last 18 years viewed their customer like this: […]
It already looks to be a busy year in food poisoning lawsuits. Here is the Sangar Listeria Complaint and the Jimmy John’s Salmonella Complaint.
An E. coli O45 Outbreak that has sickened seven has been linked to Zillman Meat Market according to the Marathon County Department of Health. As I have said a few times, it has been over a year since we filed the Petition for an Interpretive Rule Declaring enterohemorrhagic Shiga Toxin-producing Serotypes of Escherichia coli, […]
Sprouters Northwest Inc. is recalling six of its sprout products because Washington health officials believe the firm’s clover sprouts are connected to an outbreak of Salmonella Newport that’s sickened four people in the state and two in Oregon. The Kent-based firm has stopped distributing the sprouts, sold in a variety of package sizes labeled “Clover […]
For two decades, Seattle attorney Bill Marler has focused on foodborne illness cases. But outside of the courtroom, he has pushed for an overhaul of the nation’s food safety system. His efforts were rewarded Tuesday when President Obama signed a $1.4 billion food safety bill. But Marler is concerned Republicans will not fund the new […]
Being picked by the ABA and voters as number two is really not that bad. Especially given the fact that I appear to have pissed off the ABA Food Supplements Subcommittee and Products Liability Committee of the Section of Litigation. See, several months ago I was asked by one of the organizers to speak at […]
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 4, 2011 Statement by the Press Secretary On Tuesday, January 04, 2011, the President signed into law: H.R. 2751, the “FDA Food Safety Modernization Act,” which modernizes the food safety system to better prevent food-borne illness and better respond to outbreaks. I must […]
A food poisoning lawsuit was filed in Bexar County District Court today against San Antonio-based Sangar Fresh Cut Produce. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the family of a man who died from a Listerosis infection he contracted after eating celery produced by Sangar. The man, Hermillo Castellano was one four people who died […]