I asked our AI friends – What are the pros and cons of replacing FDA Commissioner Makary with me – here is the response? This is a very timely question — Makary resigned as FDA Commissioner today, May 12, 2026, amid reports of internal tensions and policy clashes, with the vaping dispute reportedly being a […]
Doug Powell, master of the “Barf Blog,’ posted on the ongoing “discussion” happening in Wisconsin surrounding raw milk. “We just don’t see that as an issue.” That’s what Kathy Kramer, a so-called nutritionist and office manager at the Weston A. Price Foundation in Washington, D.C., told Mike Nichols of the Wisconsin Journal Sentinel Online when […]
For all my clients who suffered severe illness due to food poisoning, like Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, Guillain-Barre Syndrome or Reiter’s Syndrome, Thank you President Obama and Senate and House Democrats for passing a comprehensive Health Care Bill. My clients facing being dropped from insurance coverage, being excluded for pre-existing medical conditions or facing a life […]
And, I do not even get quoted in "Is raw, unpasteurized milk safe?" The pictures are worth a few millions of words: Interesting article on raw milk risks, politics and emotions. I think what was missing in the article was a longer discussion on the number of the outbreaks that have in fact happened: http://www.marlerblog.com/2009/10/articles/legal-cases/raw-milk-outbreaks-do-happen-despite-what-the-weston-a-price-foundation-and-the-complete-patient-aka-david-gumpert-say/ […]
Looking forward to speaking at the Grocery Manufacturers Association Litigation Conference on April 7 and 8, 2010 in Washington DC.
Awhile ago I posted, "Raw Milk Outbreaks do happen despite what the Weston A. Price Foundation and The Complete Patient (a.k.a. David Gumpert) say," and rightly got slapped for being a bit too harsh. I tend to be remembered, and reviled, by sellers and consumers of raw milk (affectionately, a.k.a "raw milkies’) for suing raw […]
Campylobacter Outbreak in Michigan Linked to Consumption of Raw Milk Products The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) is issuing a public health alert regarding illness from Campylobacter infections among people who have reported consuming raw milk products obtained from the Family Farms Cooperative in Vandalia, Michigan. Family Farms Cooperative operates a cow share program […]
According to Meating Place: USDA plans to propose rules that would mandate test-and-hold practices at meat plants as well as labels alerting consumers when they are buying non-intact meat subjected to mechanical tenderization, according to Deputy Assistant Administrator for USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service Daniel Engeljohn. Engeljohn told participants at a one-day seminar in […]
The House Agricultural Affairs Committee approved a proposal Thursday that would make it clear that anyone owning a cow, goat, or sheep, or sharing ownership of those animals could legally drink or consume its raw milk. Selling raw milk would still be illegal, but dairies could keep seven cows or 15 goats or sheep in […]
The Department of Justice, in an action initiated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is seeking a permanent injunction against A Chau Sprouting Co., a sprout grower in Gretna, La., company owner and manager Quang “Mike” Trinh, and Hue Nguyen, the company production manager. The complaint, filed on March 16, 2010, in the U.S. […]
As DuPage County Health Department spokesman David Hass official announced that a total of 78 people had fallen ill due to a Shigella outbreak at a Subway sandwich shop in the Chicago suburb of Lombard, our phones have been ringing with the calls of 51 of those former customers of Subway. Mr. Hass further reported […]
Under the new rule of strict liability, to hold a food manufacturer liable, a person injured while using a food product need only show that: (1) the food product was defective; (2) it was used as intended; and (3) the defect caused the injury. The care used in the manufacture of the food product is […]
Alan J. Liddle of Nation’s Restaurant News reports this afternoon that the number of people with confirmed cases of shigella illness associated with a franchised Subway restaurant here has climbed to 78, with 11 of those individuals requiring hospitalization with one still hospitalized. He goes on: In a related development, the Seattle-based law firm of […]
The Senate Agriculture Committee scrapped an earlier version of the Wisconsin Raw Milk Bill (see earlier post) and has instituted what I see as an appropriate compromise (if I do not say so myself) that includes warnings, registration, inspection and testing. The committee also stripped a provision sought by raw milk farmers that would have […]
The Chicago-area Subway that has been linked to over 50 Shigella illness has been hit once again by a customer’s lawsuit.
This Assembly Bill – 628 – is the same as Senate Bill 434. It should fail for the same reasons as I posted below. Here is the full Assembly Bill: