As evidenced by the increasing number of food recalls and warnings, food safety is a growing concern for not only underdeveloped countries but for even the world’s most powerful and advanced nation.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 48 million Americans become sickened or die from food-borne diseases each year.  Bad food can be the result of an act of nature.  But when it’s not – when human error, recklessness and illegality are at the root of the problem – consumers are entitled to redress the injustice that cost them their health, their peace of mind, their earnings or -- for 3,000 Americans each year -- their lives. 
 
WHAT PUBLIC JUSTICE IS DOING
Public Justice has created the Food Safety and Health Project to hold corporations accountable for the manufacture, distribution and marketing of food and other products that endanger consumers’ safety, health and nutrition. 
  
In National Meat Association v. Brown, we are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a California law that prohibits slaughterhouses from putting diseased or injured animals in the food supply.  We are counsel for the Animal Legal Defense Fund, which intervened in the case along with the Humane Society of the United States and other f public interest groups.  The intervenors' brief was filed on October 3, 2011.

The Food Safety and Health Project will span the gamut of Public Justice’s key practice areas, from workers’ rights, consumers’ rights and access to justice to environmental protection.
 
In fighting the myriad abuses against consumers, workers, animals and the environment, the Project will work with other public interest groups, not only on litigation, but also in educating consumers about food safety and health issues.

For additional information:
See our  Food Safety & Health Case Index