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 […]
If you can’t sleep here is something to read. Bottom line is that Westland Hallmark was not a well run nor well regulated facility. It literally shoved downer cows to their deaths (Video) and then fed them to the public, including kids in the school lunch program.
Cambrooke Foods® is announcing a voluntary recall of all batches of the following products: Cheddar Wizard Low Protein Imitation Cream Cheese (SKU 10310; 8 oz. jar); Herb & Garlic Low Protein Imitation Cream Cheese (SKU 10308; 8 oz. jar); and Plain Low Protein Imitation Cream Cheese (SKU 10306; 8 oz. jar). Cambrooke Foods® is undertaking […]
People infected with Salmonella usually recover without medical treatment in six to ten days. It may be several months, however, before their susceptibility to diarrhea and gastrointestinal distress fully resolve. “Although younger individuals usually face far higher infection rates from these pathogens, older adults are more likely to have more severe complications.” In addition, “the […]
Barack Obama is inheriting Ag policies and food safety policies that have been the subject of huge debates for years, and the FDA has just pulled off a whopper of a policy reversal to add to the mix. They’re following the lead of other Bush regulatory bodies, which are scrambling to codify old policies in […]
Too much legal work to do in January to spend much time talking food safety, but I have several opportunities in February. American Association for Justice Mid-Winter Conference 02.10.2009 – I will travel to the AAJ Mid-winter conference in New Orleans – my speech is part of the Litigation at Sunrise program. National Meat Association […]
Public health policy and food protection are issues that we expect the new Obama administration to address eagerly. Financial problems, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Home Land Security have shifted focus away from our core public health agenda, and now is the time to return our focus. Everyone agrees that public health programs have […]
It snowed overnight on the Island. That is an inch of snow on my ’51 Chevy. For the hundreds of my subscribers and the nearly 60,000 monthly viewers of www.marlerblog.com, you may find my request for Guest Bloggers to be a bit too much. However, given the volume of food poisonings, and the issues involving […]
Only appointed on November 4, 2008, now acording to the electronic pages of "Pork," Elizabeth Johnson, acting Under Secretary of agriculture for Food Safety, has left USDA to become executive vice president of public affairs for the National Restaurant Association. President-elect Barack Obama’s administration is expected to name a replacement. Johnson’s departure is effective December […]
Food Safety consumer groups are really weighing in on what the Obama Administration should be doing. The Institute of Medicine today stated that the Food and Drug Administration’s food safety system remains ill-equipped to meet emerging challenges, and the legal authority underlying all government inspection programs should be updated to emphasize prevention of foodborne illness. […]
I was reading Dr. Brackett’s “Grading Progress on Food Safety” in the New York Times. Here are his thoughts below: The Grocery Manufacturers Associations agrees with your assessment that the Food and Drug Administration should be given more resources and authority to prevent contamination of the nation’s food supplies. Once in office, President-elect Barack Obama […]
The occurrence of bacterial infection is a function of several major variables: (1) the virulence of the bacterial pathogen, that is, its ability to cause severe disease; (2) how the pathogen is transmitted to the “host”—for example, whether it is airborne, foodborne, blood borne, etc.; and (3) host susceptibility—i.e. how well the host can defend […]
On September 12, 2008, the Chinese government officially announced that China’s powdered milk supply was experiencing a contamination problem. An initial recall, announced the same day, of over 700 tons of infant formula signaled to the world that this was no minor incident. Even so, few people would have imagined that we would sit here […]
Our Government (National Agricultural Library) does not think so, and I agree. Click on the below, you may never find your way back out again.
According to today’s Washington Post, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking to rescind its warning that women and children should limit their intake of fish, given widespread mercury contamination. The FDA is now espousing the view that the benefits of consuming fish outweigh the risks of neurological damage and mercury’s other harms – […]
I was traveling somewhere on a case last week when I was struck by the media focus on “Oprah’s see-saw battle of the bulge.” Hmmm, I thought… I have been practicing law for 20 years now – 15 of which have been food poisoning cases. During that time, I have cut back on my marathon […]