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After three Roanoke food service workers prompt Hepatitis A...52 illnesses with 4 deaths, Public Health offers free vaccines
Good on Public Health doing good public health. WDBJ reports that the Virginia Department of Health is offering free Hepatitis A vaccines for restaurant workers. The Roanoke City Alleghany Health...
Food Safety News tops 4,000,000 monthly page views
I have been and am so proud of the work that Dan, Coral, Joe, Jonan and Cookson do to make this online paper devoted to all things food safety. It shows in the nearly 50,000 subscribers and now...
https://www.marlerblog.com/lawyer-oped/food-safety-news-tops-4000000-monthly-page-views/
Much of the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak likely wo...prevented if E. coli had been reportable in California in 1992
STOP petitions government to add Cronobacter to Nationally Notifiable Disease List This week there were three hearings in Washington D.C. addressing the infant formula shortage and the reasons ...
For Goodness sake, food service workers need to be vaccinated against Hepatitis A
Please, whether it is for moral or business reasons, offer hepatitis A vaccinations to your employees. In January the Roanoke Times reported that owners of Famous Anthony’s filed bankruptcy for...
OK, I admit it – Did I miss if the FDA deemed Peanut Butter a “High-Risk” food yet?
Following the tragedy of the PCA Salmonella peanut outbreak in 2008-2009, that sickened over 700 and killed nine, Dr. Stephen Sundlof of the Food and Drug Administration told lawmakers that agenc...
Mr. Abbott, you are going to face criminal sanctions
According to the CDC and FDA, at least 4 kids were sickened and of those two died, from drinking Abbott infant formula. Abbott denies the connection. However, the resulting investigation and ...
https://www.marlerblog.com/lawyer-oped/mr-abbott-you-are-going-to-face-criminal-sanctions/
Abbott caused the infant formula crisis, but the FDA and public health enabled it – Congress needs to fix it
This week the CDC declared an outbreak of Cronobacter infections over after the FDA received four complaints of Cronobacter infections in infants beginning on September 20, 2021, through January...
Open letter to the leadership at FDA – Please know that these are the people you were bound to protect
In 30 years of practice, I have on numerous occasions offered to FDA leadership the opportunity to meet directly with the people who consumed food that was tainted under the FDA’s watch. I ha...
Abbott and Public Health Officials have failed in their duty to protect the most vulnerable
From September 2021 to February 2022, the CDC received reports of Cronobacter bacteria cases in infants in Minnesota, Ohio and Texas that resulted in four illnesses with two deaths. These illn...
Will the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health be without Safe Food?
Let this sink in: The CDC estimates 48 million people get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die from foodborne diseases each year in the United States. It is not that I do not think a ...