Personal Injury Law

Yet Another Article of the Dangers of Raw Milk Products

Posted on December 18, 2008
ABSTRACT: A survey of bacteriological quality and the occurrence of Salmonella in raw bovine colostrum 01.Dec.08 Foodborne Pathogens and Disease, 5(6): 853-858 B.A. Houser, S.C. Donaldson, S.I. Kehoe, A.J. Heinrichs, B.M. Jayarao In recent years, bovine colostrum has gained popularity as a human food because it is an excellent source of bioactive proteins, which have been claimed to inhibit viral and bacterial pathogens, improve gastrointestinal health, and enhance body condition...

What are the Ten Top Food Safety Challenges for 2009?

Posted on December 17, 2008
pimg width="100" vspace="6" hspace="6" height="129" border="1" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.marlerblog.com/uploads/image/images(36).jpg" /I'm getting flooded with the top ten food safety problems from 2008.nbsp; So, what are the top ten food safety challenges for 2009?/p p1...

China steps up efforts to rid food of illegal additives - 17 Substances Banned

Posted on December 17, 2008
pimg width="300" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="57" align="right" src="http://www.marlerblog.com/uploads/image/xl_top01.gif" alt="" /So, I spent a few hours today on the a href="http://english.gov.cn/2008-12/15/content_1178744.htm"China Ministry of Health Website/a looking for the press release on these banned substances...

CHICKEN IN AMERICA: A Lesson In Irony (And Bad Taste) - Guest Blogger Denis W. Stearns

Posted on December 17, 2008
pimg width="125" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="158" border="5" align="left" src="http://www.marlerblog.com/uploads/image/denissterns.png" alt="" /According to the amusing Wikipedia entry on a favorite culinary clicheacute;, the following foods are said to ldquo;taste like chickenrdquo;mdash;alligator, fried spider, frog legs, green iguana, huhu beetle, mopane worms, opossum, rabbit, rattlesnake, turkey, and squirrel...

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Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) induced kidney injury by Shiga-Toxin E. coli - Guest Blog - Bruce T. Clark, JD

Posted on December 17, 2008
pimg width="79" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="100" border="5" align="left" alt="" src="http://www.marlerblog.com/uploads/image/bc.jpg" /Here is the overview of HUS induced renal injury. A more complete picture can be seen at www.abouthus.com. Each kidney has between 700,000 to over a million filtering units called nephrons...

Food safety suffering from funding cuts

Posted on December 17, 2008
pa href="http://www.ift.org/news_bin/news/news_home.shtml"The Trust for Americarsquo;s Health (TFAH) /ahas released its sixth annual report?Ready or not? Protecting the publicrsquo;s health from diseases, disasters, and bioterrorism. The report contains state-by-state health preparedness scores for all 50 states and Washington, D...

Yet another Article on the Risks of Raw Milk

Posted on December 17, 2008
pimg width="200" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="110" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.marlerblog.com/uploads/image/24milk-600.jpg" /I received an article from one of my readers today on the risks of raw milk ndash; a href="http://www.marlerblog.com/uploads/file/CID 48-93 Raw milk review...

CHICKEN IN AMERICA: A Lesson In Irony (And Bad Taste) - Guest Blogger Denis W. Stearns JD

Posted on December 17, 2008
pimg width="125" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="158" border="5" align="left" alt="" src="http://www.marlerblog.com/uploads/image/denissterns.png" /According to the amusing Wikipedia entry on a favorite culinary clicheacute;, the following foods are said to ldquo;taste like chickenrdquo;mdash;alligator, fried spider, frog legs, green iguana, huhu beetle, mopane worms, opossum, rabbit, rattlesnake, turkey, and squirrel...

Yet another Article on the Risks of Raw Milk

Posted on December 17, 2008
I received an article from one of my readers today on the risks of raw milk – “Unpasteurized Milk: A Continued Public Health Threat.”  In Summary: Although milk and dairy products are important components of a healthy diet, if consumed unpasteurized, they also can present a health hazard due to possible contamination with pathogenic bacteria...

What are the Ten Top Food Safety Challenges for 2009?

Posted on December 17, 2008
I'm getting flooded with the top ten food safety problems from 2008.  So, what are the top ten food safety challenges for 2009? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9 10.

China steps up efforts to rid food of illegal additives - 17 Substances Banned

Posted on December 17, 2008
So, I spent a few hours today on the China Ministry of Health Website looking for the press release on these banned substances.  Here is the release: China has warned its food producers to rid their products of illegal additives in a latest move to restore trust hurt by the recent tainted milk scandal...

OIG says Westland/Hallmark abuse was an isolated event, but better federal oversight needed

Posted on December 16, 2008
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...

Santa's Food Safety Naughty or Nice List for 2008

Posted on December 16, 2008
The entries for Top Ten Food Safety stories of 2008 and for the Top Ten Food Safety Challenges for 2009 are coming in.  One person suggested that I do a Santa's Food Safety Naughty or Nice List for 2008 for those persons, countries, corporations or policies that should get recognition...

Now that Tom Vilsack is at Department of Agriculture, what is to be done with Food Safety?

Posted on December 16, 2008
Well, the ladies at Obama Foodorama have one idea that (along with a few other things) makes me blush - "Bill Marler: The Best Hope For Rapid Change in The Obama Foodorama" Honestly, I would be happy if President Obama and Secretary Vilsack simply read and implemented several of my ideas from - "Open Letter to a New Under Secretary for Food Safety - FSIS - The End of E...

Sources say Obama has selected Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack for Agriculture Secretary

Posted on December 16, 2008
According to AP, Tom Vilsack with be the next Agriculture Secretary. According to Wiki, Thomas James Vilsack, born December 12, 1950, is an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and served as the 40th Governor of the state of Iowa. He was first elected in 1998 and re-elected to a second four-year term in 2002...

Top Ten Food Safety Stories of 2008 Contest

Posted on December 16, 2008
OK, so I did my obligatory twelve days of Christmas list.  So, what about the top ten food safety stories of 2008?  Or, the top ten food safety challenges of 2009?  Because I really need to get back to my legal work of suing wayward companies, I though I would start off with a contest for the top ten for both 2008 stories and 2009 challenges...

Twelve Days of a not so safe food Christmas

Posted on December 16, 2008
On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me - a gallon of raw milk with campylobacter; On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me - two potpies in a microwave; On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me – three bottles of melamine baby formula; On the forth day of Christmas my true love sent to me - four jars of salmonella peanut butter; On the fifth day of Christmas my true love sent to me - five cans bulging with botulism; On the sixth day of Christmas my true love sent to me - six bags of E...

URGENT: FOOD PRODUCT RECALL RE: IMITATION CREAM CHEESE AND LOW PROTEIN PEANOT BUTTER?

Posted on December 15, 2008
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...

E. coli Lawsuits Filed Against R & S Meats

Posted on December 15, 2008
Two separate lawsuits were filed against R & S Meats, Inc. in New York State today: one in Brooklyn, at the U. S. District Court, Eastern District, and the second in Riverhead, at the New York State Supreme Court. The lawsuits were filed on behalf of children infected with E...

Medical Complications that can arise from a Salmonella Infection - Reiter's Syndrome and Reactive Arthritis

Posted on December 15, 2008
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...

FDA's Stealth Policy Reversal on Animal Antibiotics Adds to Obama's Food Safety Challenges - Guest Blogger Haphazard Gourmet Girls

Posted on December 15, 2008
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 the Lame Duck microseconds that remain before the President-elect takes office, but FDA's stealth reversal stands to permanently alter the US foodchain and profoundly endanger public health...

Food Safety Speeches in Early 2009

Posted on December 15, 2008
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...

Public Health and Food Protection Policy in the Obama Administration - Guest Blogger Roy Costa

Posted on December 14, 2008
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...

Call for Guest Bloggers on Food Safety and Food Law

Posted on December 14, 2008
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 food safety policy and the law, I would appreciate the help and differing perspectives...

Missing again an Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety

Posted on December 14, 2008
According 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...

Consumer Groups Call on Obama Administration to Take Action on Food Safety During First 100 Days

Posted on December 13, 2008
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...

Shout out on Food Safety to Robert E. Brackett

Posted on December 13, 2008
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...

The Significance of Age in Bacterial Infection

Posted on December 12, 2008
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...

Justice for Victims of the Chinese Powder Milk Crisis Means Safety for Consumers - Guest Blogger Alex B. Ferguson

Posted on December 12, 2008
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...

Can there be too much information on Food Safety? The National Agricultural Library does not think so.

Posted on December 12, 2008
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.

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