Bill Marler is a class-action lawyer in Seattle who specializes in food safety cases. His Christmas letter this year gives his top ten picks for the food safety disasters of 2008. Number 1 is melamine-laced Chinese food products. He’s leaving #10 open just in case anything new happens between now and the end of the year. Thanks Bill. Enjoy your holiday dinners, everyone!
Lots of states are passing laws to try to improve the food environment for kids–schools, marketing, vending, physical activity, farmers’ markets, and lots of other ideas. I can’t keep track of them. Fortunately, other people can and are writing about what they find. Here’s one such paper, sent to me by Joel Moskowitz of UC Berkeley’s Center for Family and Community Health. It’s a good place to start if you are wondering whether the environment has anything to do with childhood obesity and, if so, what the legal system can do about it.
