Social Media Ideas for Bill Marler

Publisher's Platform: Fifty people sick, a known supplier, and FDA still won’t say its name. That is wrong, and here is...

The public learned these were Trader Joe’s Tarragon Chicken Salad Wraps from a federal lawsuit, not from either agency charged with protecting it. 

Publisher's Platform: Want to Put Us Out of Business? Come Help Us Try.

Both jobs are open now. Lawyers, send a writing sample and tell me which case or outbreak on marlerblog.com you would pick up first and what you would do with it. Paralegals, tell...

Publisher's Platform: This FDA official got it right

I have spent more than 30 years representing people sickened by contaminated food. I do not often read a speech by an FDA official and find myself agreeing with nearly every line....

Publisher’s Platform: Put me out of the lettuce business, please

The largest Cyclospora outbreak in American history is over, and the next crop is going in the ground. Washington dismantled the system that would have caught it, Congress wrote le...

Publisher’s Platform: Food Safety Education Month starts Today – Here is what I want from government, industry academia...

The National Restaurant Association created National Food Safety Month in 1994 through its Educational Foundation, to heighten awareness about the importance of food safety educati...

Publisher’s Platform: Seven Petitions, One Message: Tell Us What You Know, Test for What Kills, and Warn People Before T...

Every one of these petitions comes back to the same idea. If the government knows something that would keep people from getting sick, it should test for it, write it down and tell...

Publisher's Platform: September Is National Food Safety Education Month – Here are 30 organizations doing the work on th...

None bills an hour for the work.

Publisher's Platform: Hamburger E. coli was 95 percent of my practice until federal inspection ended it. On-farm slaught...

On Aug. 28, 2026, President Trump said he would give farmers and ranchers the right to process their own food, in a Truth Social post calling the four largest meat processors a mon...

Publisher's Platform: The food Traceability Rule has been law since 2022 – nobody has to follow it until 2028. Here is h...

– OPINION –

Americans have lost faith in our food safety system: Here are 10 ways to win it back

Seventy-three percent of respondents say they avoided certain brands or types of food in the past year because of a recall or advisory, up from 53 percent in 2024.

Publisher’s Platform: The Secretary Is Right About Real Food. Forty Percent of Americans Say They Are Eating Less of It...

The Secretary is asking Americans to build their health around fresh, whole, minimally processed food, and this summer a great many of them looked at the lettuce and quietly decide...

Publisher's Platform: Harvard read the FRESH Act line by line

Nearly all of the public argument about this bill has been about food chemicals: dyes, PFAS, the GRAS loophole. That is where the fight started, and it is where the coalition backi...

First Illinois Cyclospora Lawsuit Filed Against Taylor Farms: What It Means for Other Victims

On August 21, 2026, a Belmont Cragin couple filed the first Illinois lawsuit connected to the 2026 Cyclospora outbreak, after it took 23 days and three separate testing attempts be...

With Cyclospora Lettuce Outbreak Over, Taylor Farms Speaks Up as FDA is Questioned

Taylor Farms outlined actions it is taking to enhance food safety following the historic cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to its lettuce. The same day, Consumer Reports sent a letter...

'We're Not Playing Games': Attorney Mark DiCello in Hot Seat Over Paraquat Clients

At a Thursday teleconference, U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel, who is overseeing 6,600 paraquat cases in the multidistrict litigation in the Southern District of Illinois, s...

A Wendy’s Customer Says a Cheeseburger Led to an Infection and $93,000 in Bills. Now She’s Suing

The plaintiff says she developed a Campylobacter infection after eating a sealed delivery order from a Chicago Wendy’s.

More people sick in outbreak traced to sprouting seeds

FDA refuses to name seed supplier

Taylor Farms leader says his company is taking steps in wake of huge Cyclospora outbreak

The CEO of Taylor Farms has issued a statement in the wake of the country’s largest ever Cyclospora outbreak this summer, which was linked to iceberg lettuce from the company’s ope...

Illinois Cyclospora Outbreak 2026: 1,437 Cases Linked to Contaminated Lettuce

Illinois has confirmed 1,437 cases of cyclosporiasis in 2026, including 69 hospitalizations, as part of a 17-state outbreak traced to contaminated iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms...

Cross-Contamination From Raw Meat: How It Causes Food Poisoning and When It’s Legally Someone Else’s Fault

The CDC and USDA warn that cross-contamination, allowing raw meat, poultry, or seafood to come into contact with food that won’t be cooked, is one of the most common causes of prev...

Supplier in sprout outbreak recalls seed

The FDA has not named the supplier

Consumer Reports wants FDA official to explain the agency's response to the Cyclospora outbreak

Consumer Reports has asked the FDA’s deputy commissioner to respond to its concerns about the agency’s response to this summer's Cyclospora outbreak linked to Taylor Farms lettuce...

Before the next food safety headline

– OPINION –

Lawmakers Demand Answers from USDA on Halting of Cyclospora Research