Veteran journalist with 15+ years covering food safety. Dan has reported for newspapers across the West and earned Associated Press recognition for deadline reporting. At FSN, he leads editorial direction and covers foodborne illness policy.
The conditions that two years ago led to a deadly multistate salmonella outbreak due to Maradoly papayas imported from Mexico remain largely unchanged.
imported papayas from Mexico remain under an
Animal and environmental organizations, joined by several rural community activists, want a U.S. District Court judge to strike down Obama-era regulations that give a break to smaller mid-sized concentrated
Editor’s Note: There was only one recall by Henry Avocado, which occurred March 23. Media reports on Monday caused some to conclude there were two. Food Safety News regrets
California is into the second week of a statewide recall and quarantine of raw milk produced and packaged by Modesto-based Valley Milk Simply Bottled.
It is one of five producers
Opinion
This is one of those “in-the-news” stories that you might not be expecting.
Federal food safety appears to be on the precipice for its best budget year in its
The felony indictments of Antillio Graniello and Randal Hamby, both associated with Amigos Meat Distributors in Atlanta, topped USDA’s enforcement actions this past quarter.
Hamby died before the case
The investigation into two people from the same household who got sick after eating raw blue crab on Jan. 18 and 19 has been completed, according to Seattle-King County Public
More dogs in more ports of entry are being put to work by Customs and Border Protection to help the USDA keep African swine fever from entering the United States.
Analysis
Federal judges so far haven’t been willing to share any of their enviable security blanket with animal agriculture.
But that might change if a strategy out of Iowa
Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in humans is rare, with only about 40 cases recorded since 1921, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
But FMD is a highly
If food safety is more important than commodities to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, this morning is not a good time to try and prove it.
The
Contamination by “extraneous materials” has become enough of a problem that USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is out with some new friendly advice to food producers on
