{"id":253158,"date":"2023-11-28T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-food-safety-attorney-bill-marler-calls-for-import-restrictions-on-mexican-cantaloupe\/"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T01:00:02","slug":"bill-marler-abogado-de-seguridad-alimentaria-pide-que-se-restrinja-la-importacion-de-melon-cantalupo-mexicano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/bill-marler-abogado-de-seguridad-alimentaria-pide-que-se-restrinja-la-importacion-de-melon-cantalupo-mexicano\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Safety Attorney, Bill Marler, calls for import restrictions on Mexican Cantaloupe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n.prntac{\nTEXT-ALIGN: CENTER\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p class=\"prntac\"><b><i>Salmonella Cantaloupe Outbreak has sickened 162, hospitalized 62 with 3 deaths.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SEATTLE<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Nov. 28, 2023<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/\u00a0&#8212; &#8220;Since last week the U.S. and Canadian health officials reported 162 people with <i>Salmonella<\/i>, including 62 hospitalized with three deaths, all linked to the consumption of cantaloupe imported from <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span>,&#8221; said food safety attorney, William &#8220;Bill&#8221; Marler. &#8220;In the U.S. the FDA should use its authority under the Food Safety Modernization Act to stop Mexican cantaloupe imports until the &#8220;root cause&#8221; of the outbreak has been determined,&#8221; added Marler.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg5e46left\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"width: 100%; text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg5e46left\" title=\" \" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/648744\/4423166\/Marler_Clark_Logo.jpg\" alt=\" \" align=\"middle\"\/><\/div>\n<p><b>The<i> Salmonella<\/i> Cantaloupe Outbreak.<\/b>\u00a0In the U.S. as of <span class=\"xn-chron\">November 24<\/span>, 99 people infected with the outbreak strain of\u00a0<i>Salmonella<\/i>\u00a0have been reported from 32 states.\u00a0Illnesses started on dates ranging from <span class=\"xn-chron\">October 17, 2023<\/span>, to <span class=\"xn-chron\">November 10, 2023<\/span>. Of 77 people with information available, 45 have been hospitalized. Two deaths have been reported from <span class=\"xn-location\">Minnesota<\/span>. In <span class=\"xn-location\">Canada<\/span> as of <span class=\"xn-chron\">November 24<\/span>, there have been 63 laboratory-confirmed cases of\u00a0<i>Salmonella<\/i>\u00a0in six provinces, Individuals became sick between mid-October and <span class=\"xn-chron\">mid-November 2023<\/span>. Seventeen individuals have been hospitalized. One death has been reported.<\/p>\n<p><b>The <i>Salmonella<\/i> Cantaloupe Recall.<\/b>\u00a0Whole fresh cantaloupes\u00a0with a label on the cantaloupe that says &#8220;Malichita&#8221; or &#8220;Rudy&#8221;, &#8220;4050&#8221;, and &#8220;Product of <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span>\/produit du Mexique.&#8221; Retailers and wholesalers would have received recalled whole melons from Crown Jewels Produce in boxes labeled &#8220;Malachita\/Z Farms&#8221; or from Sofia Produce doing business as TruFresh in boxes labeled &#8220;Malichita&#8221; or &#8220;Rudy.&#8221; Additional secondary recalls have been issued for products that were made using recalled cantaloupes and for produce items that were processed alongside recalled cantaloupes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>William &#8220;Bill&#8221; Marler<\/b>\u00a0has been a food safety lawyer and advocate since the 1993 Jack-in-the-Box <i>E. coli<\/i> Outbreak which was chronicled in the book, <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4034776-2&amp;h=1725078326&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FPoisoned-Deadly-Outbreak-Changed-Americans%2Fdp%2F098495435X&amp;a=%22Poisoned%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Poisoned&#8221;<\/a> and in the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4034776-2&amp;h=3559152489&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.netflix.com%2Ftitle%2F81460481%23%3A%7E%3Atext%3D2023%2520%257C%2520Maturity%2520Rating%253ATV%252D%2Cfoodborne%2520illness%2520in%2520the%2520US.&amp;a=Netflix+documentary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Netflix documentary<\/a> by the same name. Bill work has been profiled in the New Yorker, <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4034776-2&amp;h=225575945&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fmagazine%2F2015%2F02%2F02%2Fbug-system&amp;a=%22A+Bug+in+the+System%3B%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;A Bug in the System;&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0the <span class=\"xn-org\">Seattle Times<\/span>, <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4034776-2&amp;h=3012787211&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.seattletimes.com%2Fpacific-nw-magazine%2F30-years-after-the-deadly-e-coli-outbreak-a-seattle-attorney-still-fights-for-food-safety%2F&amp;a=%2230+years+after+the+deadly+E.+coli+outbreak%2C+A+Seattle+attorney+still+fights+for+food+safety%3B%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;30 years after the deadly <i>E. coli<\/i> outbreak, A <span class=\"xn-location\">Seattle<\/span> attorney still fights for food safety;&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0the Washington Post, <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4034776-2&amp;h=3259035492&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnational%2Fhe-helped-make-burgers-safer-now-hes-fighting-food-poisoning-again%2F2020%2F01%2F18%2F5b979cf8-38ad-11ea-9541-9107303481a4_story.html&amp;a=%22He+helped+make+burgers+safer%2C+Now+he+is+fighting+food+poisoning+again%3B%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;He helped make burgers safer, Now he is fighting food poisoning again;&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4034776-2&amp;h=2749355817&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fbillmarler.com%2Fbiography&amp;a=several+others\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">several others<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4034776-2&amp;h=819228950&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F648744%2F4423166%2FMarler_Clark_Logo.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F648744%2F4423166%2FMarler_Clark_Logo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/648744\/4423166\/Marler_Clark_Logo.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  <span class=\"xn-person\">Marler Clark<\/span>, The Food Safety Law Firm<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p class=\"prntac\"><b><i>Salmonella Cantaloupe Outbreak has sickened 162, hospitalized 62 with 3 deaths.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SEATTLE<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Nov. 28, 2023<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/\u00a0&#8212; &#8220;Since last week the U.S. and Canadian health officials reported 162 people with <i>Salmonella<\/i>, including 62 hospitalized with three deaths, all linked to the consumption of cantaloupe imported from <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span>,&#8221; said food safety attorney, William &#8220;Bill&#8221; Marler. &#8220;In the U.S. the FDA should use its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comida-y-bebida"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253158"}],"version-history":[{"count":"1","href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253160,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253158\/revisions\/253160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}