Marler Clark, Bainbridge Island, lowered our flag out of respect for Justice Ginsberg. From the Justice: My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent. I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling. Women will only have true equality when men share with them the…

A federal court in Texas sentenced ice cream manufacturer Blue Bell Creameries L.P. to pay $17.25 million in criminal penalties for shipments of contaminated products linked to a 2015 listeriosis outbreak, the Justice Department announced today. Blue Bell pleaded guilty in May 2020 to two misdemeanor counts of distributing adulterated ice cream products.  The sentence, imposed by U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman in Austin, Texas, was consistent with the terms of a plea agreement previously…

“Fight like you live here” was always the tag at the end of any of Tony’s frequent email missiles. It it is was a great empty feeling of loss that I learned about his death today.  My thoughts to his family and friends.  From Food and Water Watch’s website: Tony Corbo is the senior lobbyist for the food campaign at Food & Water Watch. He is responsible for food-related legislative and regulatory issues that come…

Introduction. On June 28, 2016, the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) received five reports of Shiga Toxin-producing Escherichia Coli (STEC)1 through routine surveillance. By June 29, routine interviews conducted by the CDPH Communicable Disease (CD) Program revealed that three of the five cases reported consuming food items from Carbon (Restaurant A) within 2-3 days before illness onset. That evening, three separate hospitals reported an increase in the number of patients that presented to the…

Given that there is a Salmonella outbreak and recall of peaches and people sick and hospitalized from eating said peaches – timing of the below tweet does not seem optimal? Outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis Infections Linked to Peaches | CDC cdc.gov/salmonella/ent… via @CDCgov – Damn Twitter!…

As my Marine Corps dad use to say “Semper Fi.” (Semper fidelis is a Latin phrase that means “always faithful” or “always loyal”) I am so proud of the work of the lawyers and staff at Marler Clark for finding Semper Fi in what we do for our clients. Bloomberg’s Julie Steinberg reported oFood services company Sodexo Management Inc. faces punitive damages claims stemming from an E. coli outbreak at two California Marine Corps bases,…

Marler Clark, The Food Safety Law Firm, is in the process of updating several of its About-sites for content and clarity, in hopes of educating the public about foodborne illnesses, such as Botulism, Campylobacter, Cyclospora, E. coli, Hepatitis A, Listeria, Norovirus, Salmonella, Shigella  and their complications. The update involves adding tables and images in an effort to render the sites more user-friendly, and refreshing content to reflect the latest, most accurate information. To accomplish…