William Marler

food safety attorney

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It’s very unusual to have two bugs,
We are just counting people who were already sick. Now comes the linking to Taylor Farms or other products,
A positive test means nothing and a negative test means nothing because the product they were testing was not the product people were consuming,
It’s sort of part and parcel of the whole dismantling of government, the whole dismantling of science — you don’t believe in vaccines, you believe in drinking raw milk, you believe in swimming in the s**t-filed Potomac — and the message it sends is that science doesn't matter,
We filed today to do two things: find out exactly where this parasite came from — which farm, which field, which supplier — and force the changes that keep it from landing on someone's plate again next summer, and the summer after that. Cyclospora outbreaks follow the same script every year, and every year we act surprised. My client didn't get sick because of bad luck. He got sick because contaminated produce moved through the supply chain and nobody stopped it.”
The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) recommends discarding cracked or dirty eggs entirely,

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