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.
Meat inspectors at federally regulated plants that slaughter animals got new instructions for humane treatment of animals.
Announced Monday by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the instructions
By the time loyal Sunday readers get to this, I hopefully will be westbound and down heading across Kansas for the higher altitudes and cooler nights of Colorado.
The reason
In one of its infamous Friday night recalls, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced a 60,424 pound recall of ground beef products by National Beef Packing
Since arriving on Madison’s University Avenue 38 years ago and
becoming a staple for many University of Wisconsin students, Bagels
Forever has expanded throughout the upper Midwest. Now Wisconsin’
For most of the past decade, the U.S. Department of Agriculture
tried to get farmers and ranchers to accept the National Animal
Identification System (NAIS) without success.
NAIS
was
When Chicago’s Edenic Soy and Tofu needed a kitchen to shoot a “how-to” video last June, it turned to its Twitter followers to find one. And no wonder, considering
Maybe if USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) did not allow so much Salmonella to get into ground turkey in the first place, the current outbreak could have
My uncle Orville was foreman on a turkey ranch in north central Minnesota. I remember going up there to visit a couple of times when I was growing up. One
California’s Yamaya USA Inc., a seafood processor and importer based in Torrance, responded quickly in April to inspection findings from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Yamaya
Seafood companies operating without an adequate Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) plan often produce only a product or two.
That’s not the case at Capt’n Chucky’
Michigan’s De Jong Dairy in Hickory Corners and New York’s Valmont Dairy at Lowville are the latest to cross the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over drug
Attorneys and judges who make our criminal system work have been talking for some time about “CSI Syndrome.”
That is the level of expectation for evidence that has developed in
