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.
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
An outbreak already infecting 77 people in 26 states with Salmonella Heidelberg prompted an unusual public health alert late Friday about the “critical importance” of safe handling of ground turkey.
Oregon’s politically powerful George family, owners of the George Packing Co. in Newberg, was probably expecting the July 15 warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Wyoming’s troubling Campylobacter uptick appears to be edging off a bit and is not in any way connected to the other larger campy hotspot on the U.S.-Mexico
If you think you have the best idea since Jesus Christ used only five loaves and two fishes to feed the multitude, chances are you are going to fight for
