Food Safety NewsDutch Valley Joins Pepper Recall
The nationwide 2010 outbreak of Salmonella Montevideo has another company recalling pepper and products made with pepper. It's been a week since the federal Centers for Disease Control and...
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Dan Flynn
Dan Flynn is a Denver-based writer and editor with more than ten years of food safety experience. As a public affairs professional, he worked with government and regulatory agencies at the local, state, and federal levels. His career as a journalist included working for newspapers throughout the West, from the Black Hills to Seattle. His on-scene reporting on the collapse of the Idaho’s Teton Dam and the suicide bombing at Washington State University’s Perham Hall was carried by newspapers around the world and was recognized both times regionally by the Associated Press for Best Reporting on a Deadline. Most of the disasters he attends these days involve food illnesses.
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Expanded Pet Food Recall Brings Changes
Nature's Variety expanded a recall of Chicken Formula Raw Frozen Diets for dogs and cats to include the "Best If Used By" dates of 10/29/10 and 11/9/10 because these products...
FDA Warns Oregon Sprout Grower
You might think of an Oregon sprout farm as being all clean and fresh. You'd be wrong.Lucky Farm Inc. is a bean sprout processing facility in Portland. An investigation team...
WA Creamery Recalls More Cheese
2010 has not started out as a good year for the Estrella Family Creamery in Montesano, WA.The 164-acre dairy farm located in Southeast Washington State in the past has won...
Regulatory Climate Sent HVP Maker Packing
Basic Food Flavors--the company at the center of the recall of foods containing hydrolyzed vegetable protein that may laced with a strain of Salmonella Tennessee--was born in California and fled...
HVP Recall List Tops 100 Products
The nation's lesson on food ingredients has continued since late last Thursday. That was when top food safety officials appeared together at a Washington D.C. press conference to announce that...
Letter From The Editor: GM Crops
The tasks assigned to the media in America are pretty simple, and have not changed much. We are here to tell you who is ahead, and give our opinions with...
Slim Fast Was Recalled for Bacillus Cereus
The Enforcement Report for March 3 from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was pretty short when it came to the Class 1 Food Recalls and Enforcement Actions that...
Dip Added To HVP Recall
Brockton MA-based Concord Foods Inc Friday joined the nationwide recall of products made with hydrolyzed vegetable protein made by Basic Food Flavors.The hydrolyzed vegetable protein may be contaminated with Salmonella....
More Pepper Recalled in Salmonella Outbreak
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is throwing its nets over more pepper suspected as the cause of a nationwide outbreak of Salmonella Montevideo that has infected 245 people...
Tortilla Maker Cited for Violations
La Mexicana Inc, a Seattle-based manufacturer and distributor of Mexican food, has some food safety problems.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent investigators to the food processing facility for...
Feed Company Violated BSE Controls
A provider of animal feed to nine states is violating federal regulations that prohibit animal proteins in ruminant feed to control the spread of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), according to...
Protein Recall Expands to 56 Products
Hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) is now taking its place beside peanuts, pistachios, and powdered milk as a food ingredient causing recalls of many, many individual products.The nation's top food safety...
Poll: Food Makes 4 in 10 Americans Sick
Four in every ten Americans suffered through foodborne illnesses sometime during the last two years, according to a national poll conducted Jan. 13-15, 2010.The Harris Poll by Harris Interactive, which...
Chicken Soup Goes on Recall List
The recall of Salmonella-contaminated hydrolyzed vegetable protein has now struck one of the staples of people trying to recover from winter illnesses--chicken soup.Las Vegas-based Basic Food Flavors Inc. has a...