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.
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
Ready-to-eat, seasoned beef and shredded pork products — exactly how much is not known –were recalled Friday by E-Z Shop Kitchens of Fremont, OH, because they were not made under federal
If people living on the Gulf Coast trusted the federal government all that much, they might be in trouble right now.
In the first peer-reviewed challenge to the U.S.
Restrictions imposed against Egypt during this year’s E. coli O104:H4 outbreaks in Germany and France have been lifted by the European Commission (EC).
Fresh and chilled peas and
It was one month ago today that Colorado named its own “Rocky Ford-brand” cantaloupes as the likely source of a multistate outbreak of Listeria infection, which now could easily become
Sunday’s episode of “The Good Wife,” a drama on CBS now in its third season, used a fictional outbreak of listeriosis apparently just to get a few laughs.
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