As we promised, Bill Marler was making news today on Capitol Hill. Along with a bench full of food industry executives, Marler testified before the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Michigan’s John D. Dingell.
We go to Andrew Schneider’s blog at the Seattle P-I for a quick summary of Bill’s major points:
This week, you are going to hear a lot about what the federal government should be doing to clean up its act when it comes to making sure our food supply is safe. John D. Dingell, powerful chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, is holding a public hearing on Tuesday that will hear
New and troubling questions are raised in a story today by the Gannett News Service about the home grown problems that threaten food safety in the United States. The story by Amanda Gardner quotes Marler Clark partner Bruce Clark about the lack of a "kill step" when it comes to the increasingly tainted fruits and
We thought New Era’s production of botulism was probably over in mid January when it expanded its recall to include all of the beans and garbanzo beans produced by the Michigan processing plant in the last five years.
We were wrong.
Today, New Era Canning Company announced it was further expanding its recall to include
Seafood processors were warned today about grouper, amberjack, and related predatory reef species captured in the northern Gulf of Mexico due to recent outbreaks of ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) that have been traced to fish from an area in the United States where ciguatera was previously extremely rare.
The warning was issued by the federal Food
The California Department of Public Health announced today that Olivier brand Parmesan & Asiago Dip with Garlic & Basil was being recalled by Olivier Olive Oil Products, Inc. of Saint Helena, California, due to potential contamination with Clostridium botulinum, the bacterium that causes botulism. The dip was distributed to Williams-Sonoma retail stores nationwide and to