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.
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.
In
Bite, the quarterly magazine of the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA), is stirring the genetically modified (GM) foods debate by dedicating its entire, just-released 32-page issue to the subject.
School lunches were associated with fights back in the Stone Age when I was growing up. As I recall, the fights could happen in at least a couple of ways.
A dozen inmates at the Utah State Prison are being treated for potentially deadly botulism after drinking alcohol made in a jail cell, state health officials say.
Eight of the
The multistate outbreak of listeriosis linked to cantaloupes now includes another death — this one in Wyoming — and a miscarriage in Iowa, along with another melon recall by a western New
In liberal enclaves like Seattle, San Francisco and Washington D.C., paid sick leave mandates on private businesses are just considered the routine business of city councils.
But in Denver,
The Super Committee charged with cutting at least $1.5 trillion from future federal spending should not count on any new food safety taxes or fees, says a growing coalition
The outbreak of listeriosis linked to whole Rocky Ford-brand cantaloupes from Colorado’s Jensen Farms is now more than six times larger than it was when the first public warnings
