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CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL AGREES TO PAY $25 MILLION FINE AND ENTER A DEFERRED PROSECUTION AGREEMENT TO RESOLVE CHARGES RELATED TO FOODBORNE ILLNESS OUTBREAKS

Bill Marler

In 2015, we were involved in litigation with Chipotle over Norovirus cases in Massachusetts and California and a Salmonella outbreak in Minnesota. A criminal information filed today in federal court in Los Angeles charges Chipotle with adulterating food in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

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Could Dole and Fresh Express face criminal charges for Listeria Outbreaks?

Bill Marler

All 10 people have been hospitalized. This means that people in this outbreak likely got sick from the same food. Of 14 people with information available, 12 have been hospitalized. This suggests that people in this outbreak got sick from the same food. In 2015 ConAgra Foods agreed to plead guilty and pay $11.2

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Request for update on Petition to deem Salmonella an Adulterant

Bill Marler

million illnesses, 26,500 hospitalizations, and 420 deaths, and 130 outbreaks each year [6] [7] and unfortunately, the burden on consumers shows no signs of letting up. Salmonella is the leading bacterial cause of foodborne illness in the United States, resulting in an estimated 1.35 billion dollars. [8]. As of 2019, it was 17.12. [9]

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Bringing Food Safety to the Masses

Food Safety Tech

To say “the CDC estimates that 48 million Americans become sick every year, that some 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die every year,” that’s usually the most lip service anyone gives to the idea of foodborne illness. Imagine if we had a single food safety agency.