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.
A New York student missed his first few days at college because a Salmonella infection from Turkish pine nuts put him in the hospital instead.
Sean McGuirk has now become
The 21-page case questionnaire used by the North Carolina Division of Public Health to crack an outbreak of E. coli helped investigators to quickly focus on the Kelley livestock building
USDA’s Food Service and Inspection Service (FSIS) is using the possibility of signing bonuses and college loan forgiveness to fill positions at some rural or remote locations where it
The ongoing Listeria outbreak caused by contaminated cantaloupe, with 29 deaths, has been called the most deadly foodborne illness in recent U.S. history.
The Centers for Disease Control and
Just as the high-end 69-restaurant chain known as Morton’s of Chicago began mourning the death of its founder, news of an embarrassing lawsuit against its Boca Raton, FL restaurant
An outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 in the St. Louis area now includes 30 confirmed cases, according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS).
And the
They’ve turned the Rocky Mountain snow machine back on. Someone told me the Old Farmers Almanac says the date of the first snowfall will determine how many times it
Two of four confirmed cases of E. coli O157:H7 involving residents of Boone County, Missouri could be related to the St. Louis outbreak, the Columbia/Boone County Department of
Sampling many more food items has not yet produced a source for the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in the St. Louis area, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior
Pregnant women dying, some along with their unborn babies, and mothers losing their newborn infants — that was the devastating profile of the 1985 outbreak of listeriosis in Los Angeles County.
A campaign aimed largely at asking how safe restaurants or day care centers can be if the people working there are not provided with paid sick leave ended in a
One more death, six more cases and two more states were added Wednesday to the toll in the 28-state outbreak of Listeria infection caused by contaminated cantaloupes from Colorado’s
