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.
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
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
