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.
Editor’s Note: Four of the 10 deadliest outbreaks of foodborne illness in the United States occurred during the first half of the 20th century. In a periodic, four-part series
A Missouri woman who spent 11 days in Mercy Hospital in Creve Coeur with kidney failure, a blood clot in the lung, and atrial fibrillation from being infected with E.
A 28-state Listeria outbreak is over, with the sad distinction of being the most deadly outbreak of foodborne illness in the United States in 100 years.
In the end, one
The two-month investigation into the St. Louis E. coli O157:H7 outbreak is over. Although there’s not enough proof to nail down the definitive source, investigators say the evidence
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is going to require a big finish, but it apparently remains on target to complete new egg rule inspections of all 517
A couple of positive tests out of many negatives by a Simon Fraser University researcher and a seven-year old draft manuscript from a government scientist apparently combined to put the
The first journalist I knew was the editor and publisher of a weekly newspaper who was confined to a wheel chair because he’d been a victim of polio as
What the Brits so aptly call “the winter vomiting disease” is coming in for some new management just as the norovirus season ramps up.
The medical establishment in the United
The European Food Safety Authority is moving up a review of the artificial sweetener aspartame originally scheduled for 2020. In doing so, EFSA will be writing another chapter in one
Public perception of risk from raw vegetables remains very low in the United Kingdom, according to new consumer research conducted since E. coli outbreaks this year in Britain and Germany
Last year I started what I thought was a very excellent food safety tradition. I did the Thanksgiving week shopping and discovered there was no room in the pantry or
