This is from an anonymous contributer:
"Here is what I know.
(3) Dina Exil of Food World News, an online journal no one had ever heard of. Easy to confuse with a legitimate online journal -- Food Safety News. She claimed the story broke in the Huffington Post, but cited the story from 2012. She falsely linked the false story to a problem at Wegmens on the east coast that has nothing to do with DBOC.
(4) Beginning on Tuesday, a DBOC representative asked Dina Exil and her editor by phone and email how they got the story, and Dina has continued to say by a google alert, without specifying to what. There are three problems to her story. First, she has been asked by
and DBOC lawyer for five days now, and she continues to say she learned of the problem from a google alert, but she cannot produce the alert. She keeps saying she will have to look thru her trash bin. Five days waiting and still no google alert. Tess from the PRL also asked her for the google alert -- on Wednesday and Thursday, and again no alert was produced. For whatever reason, Dina is refusing to show any evidence of how she was given the story. Second, lots of folks are set up for google alerts about anything having to do with DBOC, and none of us ever received a google alert concerning the Huffington Post story from 2012 or any other such story. The first google alert was to Dina's story on August 13, 2013. Third, none of the 2012 stories has been updated, and thus there is no reason why any of them would have triggered a google alert (that of course none of us received, and Dina has been unable to produce). Here are the facts:
(i) The last update on the Huff story is 8/14/12. Last comment was 8/15/12. We find no evidence for any recent Google Alert from it.
(ii) The story at Food Safety News was from 8/13/12 has no updates and no comments.
(iii) The story at CDPH was posted 8/10/12 and says it was last modified on that date.
Conclusion: Dina Exil's story is fishy at best. She has been unable to produce a google alert. No one else received one. And there was no reason for one to be triggered given that none of the 2012 stories had been updated. We don't know how she got the false story. Amy? Amy's PR guy Steve Maviglio? We don't know because Dina and her editor refuse to say.
(5) Shortly after Dina's story appears on the unknown Food World News web site, two tweets are sent out within two minutes.
(6) 3:33 pm: Steven Maviglio (Amy's PR guy in Sacramento -- claims not paid by Amy which simply means paid by the other folks that feed Amy money as well), posts a tweet saying CDPH shuts down DBOC. Time to close it for good. Steve does not link to Dina's story, but rather to CDPH post from 2012.
(7) 3:35 pm: two minutes later, Amy posts her tweet from "ProtectPtReyes." How do we know this is Amy? It links to a web site that is registered to her (I've got screen shots of all of this -- glad to provide). Amy doesn't link to Dina's story, but rather to CDPH post from 2012. Now Amy claims she got the bogus story from WFN, but neither she nor Steve linked to Dina's story. Rather, they both independently linked to the CDPH post from one year ago.
(8) DBOC lawyer wrote to Amy's lawyer and asked that it be taken down. Ultimately, Amy did take it down, but claimed she learned about it from WFN. Then why didn't she link to WFN?????"
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