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.
An Oregon produce repacking operation for fresh farm and wild mushrooms and herbs, as well as some specialty products, is doing business under some insanitary conditions, the U.S. Food
Violations of Canada’s fish, meat, and health of animals regulations brought in $74,000 in court-imposed fines during August.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), which is responsible for
Super germs and flesh-eating bacteria do not need a press agent. They are the stuff of blockbuster movies and best-selling books. Lantibiotics, on the other hand, are a kind of
Labor Day is a holiday best known for its parades and picnics.
The role of unions in the United States was very much unsettled in 1894 when Labor Day became
How many times have you been at a hotel, ski condo, or beach house and discovered that the microwave instructions for that deep dish pizza or pot pie include a
A year ago, the national media, spurred on by information from activists organizations, were quick to paint the recall of more than a half billion shell eggs as the work
With the United Nations about to get close to the whole obesity epidemic debate, the research offered up by the medical journal The Lancet last week might well have been
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
