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 […]
The Associated Press and the Belleville Press Democrat have continued to cover eight cases of E. coli infection reported over the past two weeks in Eastern Illinois. Two people have reported ill in Coles County, about 40 miles south of Champaign, and six cases were reported in nearby Effingham County, health officials said. In Effingham […]
Health officials suspect another Eight Matthew Ralph of the News and Tribune has continued to follow this story: The number of laboratory-confirmed E. coli cases has reached eight with another eight suspected all from the same group of cases linked to Galena Elementary, health officials said Friday. Dr. Tom Harris, Floyd County health officer, said […]
MSNBC and AP reports: USDA finds that Topps’ plant has inadequate safety measures Federal inspectors said Friday that they suspended the grinding of raw products at the Topps Meat Co. after finding inadequate safety measures at the plant, which is being investigated because of E. coli bacteria-tainted hamburgers that may have sickened 25 people. U.S. […]
This year’s E. coli outbreak is larger than the one from the Clackamas County Fair in 2006, when the bacteria infected four people, sending one to the hospital, said William Keene, an epidemiologist for the Oregon Public Health Division. According to the Portland Oregonian, seven people who attended the Clackamas County Fair contracted E. coli […]
We have been contacted and retained by four families as of an hour ago. I thought it might be helpful to let my faithful blog readers know that this is not the first time Topps product has sickened people: www.ecoliblog.com The other interesting fact is that outbreaks and recalls of E. coli (after a several […]
Marler Clark attorney William Marler commented on the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announcement that Topps Meat Company of Elizabeth, New Jersey, was recalling 331,582 pounds of frozen ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The recall was prompted by a combined New York Department of Health and Centers for […]
I tried to take a day off and get in touch with my “inner outdoorsman” by hunting gators and ducks in Southwest Texas, but E. coli O157:H7 would not leave me alone. Twenty-one people in New York, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania now have become ill after eating hamburgers contaminated with E. […]
OK, that may be on the minds of food manufacturers who poison customers and the insurance corporations who pay claims, but this Associated Press article demands closer reading: Scientists discover germs get stronger when they go into space It sounds like the plot for a scary B-movie: Germs go into space on a rocket and […]
I have spent the last two days in Houston at the top of the below tower (AIG Insurance Tower) meeting with lawyers in the Con Agra Peanut Butter Litigation. Frankly, there are so many lawyers involved, with so many different agendas, that people are losing sight of the fact that this was a major outbreak […]
The Effingham County Health Department is investigating several cases of E. coli. The health department says it has six confirmed cases of E. coli O157:H7. They are all linked to eating at El Rancherito restaurant in Effingham at I-57 and I-70. The health department says the restaurant is cooperating and has been closed since Thursday. […]
A week ago I was climbing the Great Wall of China. I returned home last Sunday afternoon. Now see what happened: 260 Kindergarten Children Hospitalized In China, Food Poisoning Suspected Lanzhou, China (AHN) – Over 250 kindergarten children were briefly hospitalized in China’s northwestern province of Gansu on Thursday in what authorities suspect is a […]
Elizabeth Weise and Julie Schmit, of USA TODAY have written an amazing recap of the year that made everyone question the safety of spinach and other leafy greens. I would urge all to read it: Spinach recall: 5 faces. 5 agonizing deaths. 1 year later “Seattle-based Bill Marler, considered the nation’s pre-eminent E. coli lawyer, […]
The Associated Press reported that Botulism has killed a 52-year-old Sandoval County man, according to the state Health Department. State officials have not linked the man’s case to this summer’s recall of Castleberry’s Food Co. products, but they said the man had eaten some of the recalled goods in the past and had shopped at […]
WILLIAM D. MARLER GUEST COLUMNIST Tainted pet food. Toothpaste laced with antifreeze. Toys coated with lead paint. Judging by the news reports, one might conclude the Chinese economic boom is about to collapse of its own weight. Or, as Chi-Dooh Li concluded in Sunday’s Focus (“In trade, China’s moral compass is off course”), to veer […]
Source:ExecDigital September News 600 delegates attended the First China International Food Safety & Quality Conference and Expo and heard from International Association for Food Protection members. The First China International Food Safety & Quality Conference (CIFSQ), held at the Landmark Hotel and Towers in Beijing, China, is the first meeting for IAFP in the Asia-Pacific […]