Fresh off the first weekend of the return of college football, and with kids heading back to school, the Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) has two useful press releases to keep our food safe this
Dave Babcock
Dave Babcock graduated cum laude from the University of Massachusetts in 1991 and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Washington Law School, graduating with Honors in 1997. Since joining Marler Clark in 2001, Dave's practice has focused on multiple party complex litigation, most commonly related to food-borne illness outbreaks. He has written several articles about food-borne illnesses and food-borne illness litigation for such publications as The Journal of Environmental Health and Trial Magazine.
Tracing Mad Cow Makes Litigation Unlikely
Drew Falkenstein and I co-authored “Tracing Mad Cow Makes Litigation Unlikely,” an article on litigation resulting from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow) contamination for the March 2006 edition of the King County Bar…
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Recouping the Costs of Outbreak Investigations and Prevention
“Recouping the Costs of Outbreak Investigations and Prevention,” an article on whether Environmental Health Agencies and Health Departments should seek reimbursement for costs involved in outbreak investigations and prevention appeared in the January/February…
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The Use of Public Health Documents in Foodborne-Illness Litigation
“The Use of Public Health Documents in Foodborne-Illness Litigation” appeared in the September, 2006 issue of the Journal of Environmental Health. How public health documents are used in foodborne illness litigation is a…
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It's Not Just Montezuma's Revenge Anymore . . .
“It’s Not Just Montezuma’s Revenge Anymore . . .” was published in the November, 2007 issue of the Journal of Environmental Health. The article begins, “Last night you attended a catered function for…
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