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.
Sometime around Election Day 2008, I heard the Corrigan Brothers singing “There is no one more Irish than Barack Obama.”
I remember thinking: “Oh, that explains it.”
For someone like
A ban on Mexican papayas entering the United States will make it a little harder to find the tasty Vitamin C-laden fruit at your favorite grocer.
More costly papayas from
The first thing the inspector from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reported seeing in the food storage warehouse was the trapped dead rodent behind the pallet of
Anyone who thought Congress was out of it once it adopted the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act more than a year ago probably does not understand the money and complexity involved
Four years after an infamous University of Arizona study reported that our desks carry 400 times more dangerous bacteria than the average public toilet seat, guess where most of us
A dairy operation in Tipton, CA was using too much of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory animal drug known as flunixin and could not pass a residue test.
Flunixin is effective in
Two cattle operations located west of the tiny hamlet of Doon, IA
are getting the sort of scrutiny from the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration that it normally reserves
Four seafood processing facilities — making everything from herring and mackerel to raw trout, whitefish and walleye to seafood stuffings and salads — received warnings letters from the U.S. Food and
When samples of ready-to-eat sandwiches are positive for Listeria monocytogenes contamination, chances are good a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will follow.
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Last week started out in Kansas City before moving on to Chicago to a truly excellent conference organized by the North American Meat Processors Association.
Officially titled “Prevention of E.
CHICAGO — The pathogenic Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia Coli (pSTEC) serotypes known collectively as the “Big Six” will soon be banned from U.S. meat, a top expert told a meat industry
Corn tortillas manufactured by La Villa Tortilleria Inc. in Franklin, TN were being prepared, packed or held under unsanitary conditions, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said following
