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.
Death is not a stranger in the West African country of Ghana, but killer beans are being blamed for taking an entire family in a freak food poisoning incident.
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The place most St. Louis E. coli victims are mentioning in their food diaries — Schnucks — gets A grades almost all the time from restaurant inspectors.
Schnucks, with at least 23
With the 26-state outbreak of listeriosis likely to become the most deadly foodborne illness outbreak in modern U.S. history, it might be understandable if Colorado told its cantaloupe growers
For elementary school students, it’s probably not a good day when administrators send home stool collection kits. But that is part of a prolonged investigation in Wisconsin that has
Cantaloupe-related listeriosis has killed three more people and infected another 10, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported Tuesday.
In the 12th update since the multistate outbreak
In the nearly five years since the last legal horse slaughterhouses in the United States shut down, strange events keep happening in Florida’s C-9 Basin, north of Okeechobee Road
After almost every one of these food safety train wrecks, we learn that there was a “third-party” audit of the offending facility just before a bunch of people were poisoned
It is no accident that cantaloupes from California have never been associated with an outbreak of foodborne illness.
But for the third time in 20 years, California cantaloupe growers are
The farm at the center of the nation’s deadly Listeria outbreak did not follow established food safety practices in handling its fresh cantaloupes, federal officials said Wednesday.
In releasing
In its 11th update on the multistate outbreak of listeriosis linked to contaminated cantaloupes from Jensen Farms in Colorado, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta
Big stories generate more news downstream that we have to start thinking about. The most deadly outbreak in 25 years is definitely going to have ripples of its own.
Those
