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April 11, 2021
March 26, 2021
CBC: Romaine recalls: Why our salads can make us sick
Canada has been hit by a number of romaine lettuce recalls. We set out to the U.S., where the majority of our leafy greens come from, to dig up why E. coli outbreaks continue to plague our food supply. We meet one B.C. family whose lives have been forever changed …
November 16, 2020
Is Convenience Worth the Risk: Bill Marler, Food Poisoning Lawyer, Warns Consumers of Food Safety with Food Delivery Services.
After a recent fish outbreak from Hello Fresh in New Zealand, Early Edition's Kaye Hawkesby interviews Bill Marler, food poisoning lawyer, on iHeart Radio. “The home delivery boom we've seen during Covid 19 is ripe for problems like this," Bill warned. …
November 11, 2020
Marler Clark, the Food Poisoning Lawyers, Interviewed in Foodservice Consultant Magazine
Bill Marler and his associates have dedicated significant amounts of time and money to educate and advocate all who will listen to what needs to be done to prevent future lawsuits. Here are some key pro-consumer actions taken by Bill and his team: Helped to pass the 2010-11 Food and …
June 23, 2020
A Goodstory Podcast - When It Mattered with Chitra Ragavan
A teenage runaway tries his hand at migrant work and becomes one of the most powerful food safety lawyers in the world / William Marler, Food Poisoning Attorney. …
April 15, 2020
Food Borne Illness Attorney Bill Marler - “How to prevent foodborne illness … and prevent me from showing up”
On one hand: “You have to recognize what an amazing job food production is doing in the world, especially in the U.S. Given the amount of people that we feed, the relative safety of the food supply is pretty amazing given how it has become more and more complex. … …
January 23, 2020
The Danger in our Salad Bowls - The Boston Globe
RICHMOND, BRITISH COLUMBIA - It was the vacation of a lifetime for three generations of the Parker family. For much of 2018, Nathan Parker and his wife, Karla Terry, plotted their road trip from this Vancouver suburb down the Oregon coast to their final destination: Disneyland. …
January 23, 2020
Gut Reaction - Bill Marler Talks about the State of our Food, Microbiological Investigation, and Jack in the Box
It helps to think of Bill Marler's area of law - plaintiffs' litigation for foodborne illness injuries - as less Law and Order, more CSI ... plus stool cultures. For Marler, a raspy-voiced, avuncular Seattle lawyer and a founding partner of Marler Clark LLP PS, most of his firm's work …
May 10, 2013
Raw Milk: An Issue of Safety or Freedom?
Attorney Drew Falkenstein wrote "Raw Milk" An Issue or Safety or Freedom" for the April 2013 issue of the Journal of Environmental Health. In it he asks, "Is there any one food that is as frustrating as raw milk? Is there any other food that is a subject of so …
October 18, 2012
The Rights of Environmental Health Specialists to Conduct On-Site Inspections
In the September 2012 issue of the Journal of Environmental Health, Colin Caywood writes, "While every state law is different, environmental health specialists should feel comfortable in carrying out their job duties knowing that they have legal authority to perform their inspections and that refusal of access by a regulated …
June 05, 2012
Depositions 101
Patti Waller's article in the June, 2012 Journal of Environmental Health focuses on what environmental health professionals need to know about depositions in the event that they are required to appear and testify as a witness in a foodborne illness lawsuit. What Is a Deposition? A deposition is part of …
April 09, 2012
Public Health Records That Stand Up in Court
David Babcock begins his article for the April 2012 issue of the Journal of Environmental Health, "An environmental health inspector is writing up his or her restaurant inspection report. An epidemiologist is logging food history with an ill member of the public. In either case, the possibility that the document …
February 01, 2012
Why the Retention of Public Health Records Matters
Andrew Weisbecker wrote this article for the Journal of Environmental Health. In the article, Mr. Weisbecker addresses the need for public health agencies to put in place effective records and information management programs, establishing retention requirements based upon records' legal, fiscal, administrative, and historical requirements and values. He writes, "Without …
November 16, 2010
Lawyers, Microbiologists and Safe Food
In his article for the June 2010 issue of Microbiologist Magazine, Bill Marler describes how his career in law has developed to encompass microbiological food safety. He explains the ways in which microbiology features in his day-to-day life as a plaintiff's attorney at Marler Clark. …
June 29, 2009
Contaminated Fresh Produce and Product Liability: A Law-in-Action Perspective
Denis Stearns wrote “Contaminated Fresh Produce and Product Liability: A Law-in-Action Perspective,” in Microbial Safety of Fresh Produce: Challenges, Perspectives, and Strategies, an IFT Press publication to be released in 2009. According to the publisher, “[the book] covers all aspects of produce safety including pathogen ecology, agro-management, pre-harvest and post-harvest …
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