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.
The 7th most important food safety story of 2011 was the investigation by Food Safety News into the world honey trade.
It’s been a decade since the U.S.
Food fright, a phenomenon mostly experienced by parents, is 2011’s 8th most important food safety story.
Parents in 2011 have had to wade through scary stories about the purported
The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act was the 9th most important food safety story in 2011. When Congress adopted the measure in 2010, it was the most important story. The
From Washington to Maine with numerous stops in between, the food “sovereignty” movement emerged as the 10th most important food safety story of 2011.
With many variations, the movement involved
For the third consecutive Christmas season, Food Safety News presents its annual Naughty and Nice List. Like all such lists, this one exists to help Santa decide what everybody should
James Whitemarsh, a former BBC producer, has been acquitted of sexual assault by the Southwark Crown Court after a jury accepted his claim that eating raw oysters left him without
The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second largest public school system, is being forced to re-do its school lunch menus after a switch to more healthy meals
Canada’s federal government Monday said it has now addressed all 57 food-safety recommendations made by independent investigator Sheila Weatherill after the country’s deadly 2008 listeriosis outbreak.
The Conservative
At one point during my seven semesters at South Dakota State University, also known as the Harvard of the Prairie, one of the history professors tried to talk me into
Quinault Tribal Enterprises (QTE) last April recalled 27,705 metal cans of seafood products, distributed nationally, because federal food-safety authorities said the cans were not adequately processed.
The voluntary recall
The Salmonella outbreak in Corinth has now been pinned on a single restaurant, so there is no threat to the general public in northeast Mississippi, the state health department advises.