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 […]
Coming a day after the FBI raided the Natural Selection plant, Ruby’s death should be a stark reminder of why Corporate America needs to spend a bit more time looking at doing the right thing for its customers and less looking a the bottom line. Dole, the name on the bag that Ruby consumed before […]
As the San Francisco Associated Press reported today, federal investigators trying to build a criminal case against two produce companies in the contaminated spinach outbreak are following a script first used a decade ago to prosecute a company whose E. coli-tainted apple juice killed a baby and sickened dozens of other people. From the article: […]
California State Senate Committee on Governmental Organization I have been invited to participate in an informational hearing organized by the California State Senate Governmental organization Committee to address the emergency response needs of the food production and distribution chain in California. The hearing, "Unraveling the E. coli Outbreak: Are State Emergency Response Systems Prepared for […]
As federal agents launched a criminal investigation into two produce companies involved in the contaminated spinach outbreak, Idaho health officials confirmed the death of a 2-year-old boy Sept. 20 was caused by tainted spinach, the Associated Press reported today. Kyle Allgood was the second confirmed death in the E. coli outbreak, which also killed a […]
Stacy Finz and Marisa Lagos of the San Francisco Chronicle are following the quest to locate the source of an E. coli outbreak that has sickened 191 people and killed one woman escalated Wednesday into a criminal investigation as federal agents raided the offices of two northern California produce processors for evidence that someone may […]
As Ken McLaughlin and Brandon Bailey of the San Jose Mercury News have reported, agents for the FBI and FDA on Wednesday executed two search warrants on two Salinas area companies, saying they were looking for evidence of a crime. From the article: The two companies were Growers Express of Salinas, Calif., and Natural Selection […]
The US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California announced that agents of the FBI and FDA Office of Criminal Investigations executed two search warrants today on Growers Express in Salinas, CA, and Natural Selection Foods in San Juan Batista, CA, in connection with the September 2006 outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7 that the FDA has […]
As San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writers Stacy Finz and Marisa Lagos report, the investigation into the source of a deadly E. coli outbreak that has sickened nearly 200 people moved into the criminal realm for the first time today, as federal search warrants were executed at two Salinas Valley produce companies. Investigators for the FBI […]
The story Lawmaker can’t find spinach in stores is from the same politician who believes "Wild Pigs" caused this outbreak. If Congressman Farr really wanted to find spinach, he could have just left his office and driven to the Salinas and San Juan Valleys (see map below), but likely there were no cameras there to […]
Reuters published an article this morning titled E. coli found in cattle feces in spinach probe. This headline should not surprise anyone who has actually visited the Salinas Valley. I spent all day today driving around Salinas and other Valley’s and Counties implicated in this outbreak. Anyone with a shred of common sense would have […]
I am touring the Salinas Valley for the next few days with several experts to get an idea about how this little valley could have been the source of so many outbreaks of E. coli.
The WSJ last week, the PSBJ this week – the business press seems more interested in this spinach outbreak than main-stream media. The below is from the Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle), written by Clay Holtzman: For 13 years, Seattle attorney William Marler has made a name for himself as the E. coli lawyer. Food […]
The below is an interview I gave last Thursday with KUOW reporter Austin Jenkins: If your kid gets E. coli poisoning – who are you going to call? These days people from across the country dial up Seattle attorney Bill Marler – sometimes before they talk to the health department. He’s made his name – […]
September was National Food Safety Month. Aren’t you glad it is over? Remember, despite the downward trends in food poisonings, 76 million people experience a food-borne disease in the United States each year. In fact, according to the Partnership for Food Safety Education and the United States Department of Agriculture and the Centers for Disease […]
FDA says spinach is safe! I have thought about that statement over and over again during the last twenty-four hours – “spinach is safe.” And, I guess lettuce is too? I know, I am being an alarmist, I am a trial lawyer trying to drum up more business, but am I? Let’s face facts – […]