This is simply unacceptable. This botulism outbreak, frankly any outbreak that sickens babies, should never have happened. We can do more to protect the most vulnerable. The stork in “operation stork speed” clearly flew into a brick wall and crash landed. This child’s parents bought ByHeart Infant Formula at a Walmart. ByHeart utilized powdered organic […]
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 – […]
Interesting video from CBS Evening News about the likely source of the E. coli that has sickened nearly 200 Americans – WATER: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2054114n
Marilynn Marchione, a medical writer for the Associated Press, reports that despite the recent E. coli spinach outbreak, food may be safer now than at any other time in the last decade, with illness occurring at record-low rates, according to new federal statistics: Consumers get part of the credit, for handling food more safely at […]
I knew this moment would be coming (SPINACH IS SAFE), but frankly, I thought it would be after the conclusion of an investigation, with conclusions and reforms. I find it perplexing, if not shocking, that Dr. Acheson, for who I have great respect, would simply say all is clear without knowing why this outbreak happened […]
More “smoking” bags of DOLE spinach. Great job to Health Departments across the country for taking the time to test this material for E. coli O157:H7. Hopefully, it will help link to where in the chain of distribution DOLE’s product became contaminated. However, make no mistake, wherever the product became contaminated, DOLE and Natural Selections […]
On September 25, I posted Survival means sometimes fixing the problem and saying you are sorry; On September 20, I called on the spinach and lettuce industry to step up and pay victims medical bills and wage losses as a first step to helping these families and in saving their industry. The Press Conference to […]