Publisher's Platform: Food Safety Nice List
BabyBIG and the story told by Joel Aleccia - Licensed in 2003, BabyBIG is the brand name for human botulism immune globulin, an IV medication that uses antibodies from volunteers vaccinated against...
View ArticlePublisher's Platform: Food Safety Naughty List
ByHeart for the botulism outbreak and the terrible response to a crisis - "Aggressive" Denial of Evidence: Consumer advocates, including the Center for Science in the Public Interest, criticized...
View ArticlePublisher's Platform: ByHeart, Safeway, FDA and ADHS – Botulism in a can...
This is months after the recall of all product produced since 2022 and months after being repeatedly warned by health authorities that recalled product was still on store shelves. As someone in food...
View ArticlePublisher's Platform: Raw Farm has a history of outbreaks linked to its raw...
Here is a history of some of the outbreaks and recalls linked to Raw Farm, formerly known as Organic Pastures: DateProductContaminantRecall/IllnessesSeptember 2006Raw MilkE. coli O157:H76 ill, 2 with...
View ArticlePublisher’s Platform: After over 30 years suing food companies, here’s what...
The list keeps getting longer — and the regulators keep getting slowerI have spent more than 30 years representing the people the food system failed. Children on dialysis after eating a hamburger....
View ArticlePublisher's Platform: The infant formula industry was warned about Botulism...
“Historical associations between powdered infant formula and pathogens such as Cronobacter spp., Salmonella, and Clostridium botulinum should be considered when designing and implementing controls for...
View ArticlePublisher's Platform: Redactions and the move towards radical transparency
For over thirty years, I have been beating the same drum, and the last few days were no exception (some argue a bit too loudly and self-serving). I have been posting about public health officials — and...
View ArticlePublisher's Platform: The quiet way raw milk can paralyze you
I have spent time sitting across kitchen tables from people whose lives were upended by a single meal. Some of those conversations stay with me. The ones about raw milk and Guillain-Barré syndrome are...
View ArticlePublisher's Platform: We’re turning off the smoke detectors on America’s food...
For more than thirty years I have represented the families on the other end of a foodborne outbreak — the parents of children on dialysis with hemolytic uremic syndrome, the survivors of a contaminated...
View ArticlePublisher's Platform: Two botulism outbreaks in seven months — where are the...
For the second time in seven months, I am writing about a baby formula that is carrying the toxin that causes botulism. For the second time in seven months, the implicated ingredient is whole milk...
View ArticlePublisher's Platform: FDA’s ByHeart inspection report is finally public —...
On Thursday, June 11, 2026, the FDA quietly posted to its website the document those of us investigating the ByHeart infant-botulism outbreak have waited months to see: the complete Establishment...
View ArticlePublisher’s Platform: I’ve written the letters. Now I’m asking 55,000 of You...
In the last seven months this country has had two outbreaks of infant botulism, both traced to powdered whole-milk infant formula. The first, tied to ByHeart, sickened 48 babies across 17 states —...
View ArticlePublisher's Platform: The genome doesn't lie
When I started suing food companies more than thirty years ago, after E. coli O157:H7 in undercooked Jack in the Box hamburgers killed four children and sickened hundreds, proving where a pathogen came...
View ArticlePublisher's Platform: Letter to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and...
The Honorable Bill Cassidy, M.D., ChairmanThe Honorable Bernie Sanders, Ranking MemberCommittee on Health, Education, Labor, and PensionsUnited States Senate428 Senate Dirksen Office...
View ArticlePublisher's Platform: Nara, you knew what when? And, your words matter!
Three babies — in California, Pennsylvania, and Washington — were hospitalized with botulism after being fed Nara Organics Whole Milk Organic Powdered Infant Formula. All three were between two and...
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