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 serves as Senior Editor and covers foodborne illness policy.
It’s been more than two years since a federal bench trial in Oklahoma over chicken industry practices ended, but that judge has yet to issue a ruling. Now a
A official warning about liquid nitrogen in cocktails was issued Monday by the Food Standards Agency of the United Kingdom. Her Majesty’s government went public with the warning after
Last month’s study out of France that said genetically modified corn and a related herbicide caused organ damage, tumors, and early death among rats broke too many rules and
We did, as reported in this space last week, make a transition to a new publishing platform. It did require more of some of us than others.
I should confess
The peanut butter recall intended to extinguish an multistate outbreak of a rare strain Salmonella continues to evolve. Sunland Inc. Thursday extended its list of recalled products to include all
Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, along with Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) President George Da Pont, went personally to the closed and suspended XL Foods Inc. beef processing plant in
Before Chamberlain Farms recalled its cantaloupe crop on Aug. 22, inspectors out of Detroit for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were already finding the Owensville, IN grower
As many as 10,000 German school children stricken since Friday by a vomiting virus may be suffering from eating cafeteria food, health authorities say.
While the investigation is far
Canada’s largest in history beef recall and the closure of the nation’s largest meat processing plant is putting unusual pressure on regulators to return the facility to service.
It’s now official. Food Safety News has celebrated its third birthday and officially moved into its fourth year of publication.
When we began this venture back in 2009, we
Just 30 days ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was depicted as the tip of the spear in the “fast-moving “outbreak investigation of a Salmonella Braenderup outbreak
Kirkland brand Strip Loin Grilling Steaks sold at Costco in Edmonton, Alberta — which apparently originated at the city’s XL Foods Inc. — were recalled Wednesday after the beef products were
