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.
Investigators found Listeria monocytogenes matching an outbreak strain in cantaloupe at a Denver-area store, and on equipment and cantaloupe at the Jensen Farms packing facility in Colorado, the U.S.
We’re not sure what more we could have served up during this past week, the first of our third year serving the food safety community.
There was no better
First came the state warning, then retail removals, next was the recall, followed by national warnings, and now the first lawsuit. The multi-state Listeria outbreak has played out this week
By the time the first recall was announced Wednesday, major retail chains had already removed all Colorado-grown cantaloupes from their shelves in the face of a deadly, multistate outbreak of
Food Safety News today begins its third year as a daily web-based news service.
The news service is the brainchild of nationally known food safety attorney Bill Marler, who has
At the meat industry’s recent E. coli conference in Chicago, the USDA’s decision to ban six more strains of toxic E. coli, in addition to O157, was much-anticipated
I lived in Seattle for 24 years but went salmon fishing only once.
Bill Marler, our publisher, and I have a long history. Sometimes in reading the comments we receive
Most of the Listeria illnesses in Colorado, including one that resulted in death, have now been tied to a multistate outbreak that includes Nebraska and Texas and may have been
Federal Judge Gordon Jay Quist found that cows owned by Scenic View Dairy had antibiotic levels too high for the animals to be sold for slaughter as human food, but
The United Kingdom’s Food Standards Agency Thursday issued a specific warning about artisan foods linked to a potentially deadly botulism outbreak in France.
Residents and visitors to France were
Of all the meat and poultry products, pork barbecue with vinegar and pepper-based sauce was found responsible for 23 percent of all Salmonella-positives during the five year period from 2005
“American Meat” is the latest documentary film seeking to be part of the nation’s food debate. Unlike some that have gone before — “Food Inc.” and “Fast Food Nation” come
