About this episode

Bill Marler discusses food safety and the legal implications of foodborne illnesses with Dr. Phil.

You think you're feeding your family safe food. Bill Marler has spent three decades proving otherwise. As America's most prominent food safety attorney, Marler has represented thousands of victims in nearly every major U.S. food borne illness outbreak from the Jack in the Box E. coli disaster that put a 9-year-old girl in a coma, to the Nestlé cookie dough that hospitalized a Nevada mother of six for over two years, to the infant formula that gave 51 babies botulism in 2026. He's taken on big companies and won over $800 million for families who thought they were just sitting down to a normal meal.  Dr. Phil sits down with Marler for a conversation that will change the way you look at every plate in front of you. Why is it still perfectly legal to knowingly sell salmonella-contaminated chicken? Why did it take grocery stores six weeks to pull botulism-tainted baby formula off shelves  after the FDA told them to? And when politicians say America has "the safest food supply in the world" what does the man who's seen the bodies have to say about that?  Marler also reveals the foods he personally refuses to eat, the red flags to look for the second you…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Phil

Guest: Bill Marler

Topics covered

• food safety
• legal issues
• health risks
• consumer awareness
• foodborne illness

Keywords

• food safety
• Bill Marler
• salmonella
• E. coli
• foodborne illness
• FDA
• consumer protection

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Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FDA

Products: Nestlé cookie dough, infant formula

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