I know it’s concerning for consumers, but companies respond quickly when there’s a recall, they’re losing a lot of money and taking products off the shelves and that’s when we start seeing changes. from 1993-2003, 90% of my law firm was linked to E. coli from hamburger meat and now it’s down to 0% because companies responded.

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This tells me that the number of ill is likely going to go up because the HUS cases are easier to track.

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The large swath of where people are sick - even though there are low numbers - would allow for triangulation back to a particular supplier.

There has to be a common supplier with a common food item. by Bill Marler

There has to be a common supplier with a common food item.

They’re organic and natural but it doesn’t mean that they’re safer, people have this magical way of thinking today, that if it’s local then ‘magically’ the food will be safer, but that’s not realistic or true.

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The number of recalls have actually gone up in recent years. by Bill Marler

The number of recalls have actually gone up in recent years.

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If you look at the statistics today, E.coli dropped like a stone in the early 2000s and it has continued as a downward trend.

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They just went in and randomly grabbed a product and tested it. by Bill Marler

They just went in and randomly grabbed a product and tested it.

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Honestly, I think the fact that he was prosecuted at all is a victory for consumers, although his sentence is less than the maximum, it is the longest sentence ever in a food poisoning case.

Although his sentence is less than the maximum, it is the longest sentence ever in a food poisoning case, this sentence is going to send a stiff, cold wind through board rooms across the U.S.

Prosecutors took a risk and fortunately, the jury believed them, the jury saw this for what it was. The emails and documents told a story of a company that was more interested in shipping out products than products that were safe.