Food Safety attorney, Bill Marler, available to put deadly Salmonella Cantaloupe Outbreak in context

SEATTLE, Dec. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In the recently released Netflix documentary "Poisoned," most experts agreed that cantaloupe has been a problematic fruit. Those concerns are now being seen in the U.S. and Canada where 359 people have been sickened, 140 hospitalized and 8 people have died, all linked to imported Cantaloupe from Mexico.

"The current cantaloupe outbreak clearly demonstrates that we do not have the safest food supply in the world," stated food safety attorney Bill Marler.

In the United States, as of December 6, 230 people infected with one of the outbreak strains of Salmonella have been reported from 38 states. Illnesses started on dates ranging from October 16, 2023, to November 20, 2023. Of 185 people with information available, 96 (52%) have been hospitalized. Ages of ill have been less than 1 to 100 years of age. Twenty-four people resided at long-term care facilities when they got sick. Twenty-three children attended childcare centers when they got sick.

In Canada, as of December 7, there have been 129 laboratory-confirmed cases of Salmonella Soahanina, Sundsvall and Oranienburg illness linked to this outbreak in the following provinces: British Columbia (15), Ontario (17), Quebec (91), Prince Edward Island (2), New Brunswick (2), and Newfoundland and Labrador (2). Individuals became sick between mid-October and mid-November 2023. Forty-four (44) individuals have been hospitalized. Five deaths have been reported. Individuals who became ill are between 0 to 100 years of age. Most of the individuals who became sick are children 5 years of age or younger (35%), or adults 65 years of age or older (45%).

William "Bill" Marler has been a food safety lawyer and advocate since the 1993 Jack-in-the-Box E. coli Outbreak which was chronicled in the book, "Poisoned" and in the recent Netflix documentary by the same name. Bill work has been profiled in the New Yorker, "A Bug in the System;" the Seattle Times, "30 years after the deadly E. coli outbreak, A Seattle attorney still fights for food safety;" the Washington Post, "He helped make burgers safer, Now he is fighting food poisoning again;" and several others.

Marler Clark has been in the lead for all the Cantaloupe Outbreaks Lawsuits over the last several decades. Here is a sampling:

• Caito Foods Melon Salmonella Outbreak – Multistate (2018)
• Chamberlain Farms Cantaloupe Salmonella Outbreak – Multistate (2012)
• Del Monte Cantaloupe Salmonella Outbreak Lawsuit – Nationwide (2011)
• Susie Cantaloupe Salmonella Outbreak Lawsuit – Washington (2002)
• Viva Cantaloupe Salmonella Outbreak Lawsuit – Washington, California (2001)
• Jensen Farms Rocky Ford Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak – Nationwide (2011)

To schedule a time to talk with Bill Marler, please contact Julie Dueck at [email protected] or call 206-930-4220.

SOURCE Marler Clark, The Food Safety Law Firm