I asked our AI friends – What are the pros and cons of replacing FDA Commissioner Makary with me – here is the response? This is a very timely question — Makary resigned as FDA Commissioner today, May 12, 2026, amid reports of internal tensions and policy clashes, with the vaping dispute reportedly being a […]
Dateline takes a look at problems in food safety. What’s behind last year’s rash of E. coli outbreaks? And is there anything the FDA can do to safeguard our produce? See Video One victim’s story Michelle Matthews of Eagle Creek, Utah, and her 2-year-old daughter Arabella both became seriously ill from spinach in early Sept. […]
E. coli probe fails to solve outbreak – Mission Ranch officially named as source By Dawn Withers, The Salinas Californian Bill Marler, a Seattle-based attorney representing 93 people sickened from the outbreak, said he will decide in the next few weeks whether to add the three other farms to his lawsuits, which already target Mission […]
State and federal health departments have identified a ranch in San Benito County as the likely source of a recent E. coli outbreak in spinach that killed three people and sickened more than 200. Authorities for the first time say the E. coli contamination originated from the Paicines Ranch in San Benito County. The ranch […]
“This industry is only as strong as its weakest link,” said attorney Bill Marler, who is representing 93 of the outbreak victims. “The next time there is an outbreak, the whole industry is going to take a hit, not just the farmer who didn’t sign the agreement.” Garance Burke of the Fresno Associated Press today […]
By Clarissa Kell-Holland, staff writer of Land Line: Defending victims of food-borne illnesses – like E. coli – has been attorney Bill Marler’s focus since 1993, now he has a new perspective on how hauling potentially contaminated loads of produce and the lack of federal regulations affects truckers. How long can the produce industry continue […]
Adam Tanner from Reuters wrote today – “Source of 2006 toxic spinach uncertain” After a six-month probe, U.S. and state officials said on Friday they could not conclude how spinach became infected with toxic E. coli bacteria that killed three and sickened 205, but that wild pigs and well water were possible sources. “No definitive […]
On March 21, 2007, The California Department of Health Services and the United States Food and Drug Administration released its report, “Investigation of an Escherichia coli O157:H7 Outbreak Associated with Dole Pre-Packaged Spinach.” and, “Recommendations in follow up to the Investigation of an Escherichia coli O157:H7 Outbreak Associated with Dole PrePackaged Spinach.” The report and […]
From The Salinas Californian: Companies implicated in the September E. coli outbreak linked to fresh spinach would not benefit from a proposed $25 million in federal aid to help innocent growers hurt by the scare, U.S. Rep. Sam Farr’s office said Thursday. Farr came under national criticism this week for the relief funding, winning the […]
Elizabeth Weise and Julie Schmit of USA TODAY wrote today that “the company that recalled 60 million containers of dog and cat food said Wednesday that its testing is continuing, but the source of the contamination that has killed at least 16 animals and sickened possibly hundreds more is still a mystery. The nationwide recall […]
A few weeks ago I was in Monterrey California where I was interviewed by a local TV station. They were kind enough to give me a copy: Click on bug above
Larry Warren of ABC News 4 in Salt Lake City reports: An Iraq spending bill Congress will vote on Thursday has an Eagle Mountain mother angry, but not about war spending. The huge, 124.1 billion dollar appropriation bill also contains billions of dollars in spending that has nothing to do with the war. “I understand […]
Ken Dilanian of the Washington DC USA TODAY office wrote in part: Spinach growers get aid provision as food-safety-standards bill stalls Darryl Howard’s mom, Betty, was among those who died after eating contaminated spinach last fall at her home in Washington state, he says. He was stunned to learn last week that the emergency bill […]
According to the Salinas Californian, Citizens Against Government Waste today named Rep. Sam Farr, D-Carmel, the nation’s Porker of the Month for adding $25 million for spinach growers to the fiscal 2007 emergency supplemental bill. Porker of the Month is a dubious honor given to lawmakers, government officials, and political candidates who CAGW says have […]
Guess what? It is business as usual for the U.S. Congress. Hidden in the $124,000,000,000 Iraq War Spending Bill is Sec. 3103, submitted by Congressman Sam Farr (D-CA), entitled – Spinach – is a $25,000,000 earmark to the same people who poisoned over 200 and killed 4 people in last year’s Spinach E. coli outbreak […]
Dawn Withers of the Salinas Californian wrote this morning an exclusive article: Grower details his side of outbreak link – ‘We’re part of a bigger story,’ Mission Organics executive says Nestled in a picturesque San Benito County valley lies a field federal and state authorities say may be the source of E. coli that last […]