In the summer of May 2019 — after skipping out on my college graduation and relentlessly hounding Marler Clark’s managing partner, Bill Marler, to give me an internship at his law firm — I set
Continue Reading A scientist, two lawyers, and an intern walk into a bar. . .Ilana Korchia
Ilana joined Marler Clark in May 2019, after graduating from the University of Florida with her bachelor’s degree in food science. She continued to work at Marler Clark while attending law school at Seattle University School of Law and graduated Cum Laude in 2022. She now works as an associate attorney at Marler Clark.
Ilana has previous experience working as a public affairs intern for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and as an intern at the Miami-Dade criminal re-offender courts. She is originally from Nice in the south of France. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, traveling, cooking, and hiking.
What restaurants and CDC can do to prevent hepatitis A outbreaks
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As of Nov. 9, 2021, health officials in Roanoke, Virginia, confirmed a total of 50 primary cases and two secondary cases of hepatitis A linked to a hepatitis A positive food service employee who…
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Stakeholders reaffirm need for more modern meat and poultry policies
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The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) presented an installment of its Virtual National Policy Conference series, titled “A New Day at USDA for Food Safety?” on Tuesday.
Speakers included Dr. Patricia Griffin, chief of…
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USDA’s Salmonella standards for raw ground beef may change in 2020
A performance standard is a metric that USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service uses to evaluate the potential presence of pathogens on FSIS-regulated products, including meat and poultry. The Salmonella performance standards apply to an…
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