Recorded at 12 p.m. ET Wednesday, June 14
Health hazards from tainted meat, produce and other foods are an ongoing national problem, underscored by last year’s unprecedented infant formula recall. Bill Marler, food safety lawyer and publisher of Food Safety News, will look at why it’s so hard to keep the food supply safe, what the federal government should be doing about it and story ideas for national and local reporters — just in time for summer — that will keep the focus on ensuring the safety of the food we eat.
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Bill Marler
Bara VaidaBill Marler is the founder of Marler Clark, a law firm based in Seattle that specializes in representing victims of food-borne illness outbreaks. Marler has represented clients in some of the most high-profile food-borne illness cases in the United States, including the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak, the 2006 Dole spinach E. coli outbreak, the 2011 Listeria outbreak linked to cantaloupes from Jensen Farms and the 2018 romaine E. coli outbreak. He founded Food Safety News in 2009 to keep the spotlight on food, health and safety reporting, as traditional news organizations were reducing and eliminating food safety coverage. Bill’s work has been profiled in the book “Poisoned” and in the Netflix documentary of the same name.