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.
Big retailers like Wal-Mart are siding with Asian seafood companies against their American counterparts over the definition of catfish.
The dustup over the definition went public as USDA ended the
A Texas dairy cow with high levels of Flunixin in its liver and a bob veal calf in California with gentamicin in its kidney tissues are the latest examples of
Seafood processing plants operated by La Fiesta Food Products in San Jose, CA and Wild Foods Inc. in Milwaukee, WI were both subjects of June 17 warning letters from the
Courts in June fined violators of federal laws administrated by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) a total of $141,400. The largest fine went to a Canadian company that
It’s become a tradition at Food Safety News to take a break on major holidays by hosting a virtual potluck or picnic, held entirely online for our far-flung staff.
Whenever July 4th comes around, I find myself thinking about the nation’s 50th birthday 185 years ago.
It was on that date in 1826 that Thomas Jefferson died at
Fast action and some luck may have contained a rare outbreak of E. coli 026 to a handful of kitchen workers at Idaho’s Camp Lutherhaven on Lake Coeur d’
If raw milk doesn’t again spread some deadly pathogen around the Badger State, Wisconsin could yet clear the way for expanded sales of the unpasteurized product.
That’s because
A two-minute undercover video targeting Iowa Select Farms in Kamrar, IA and the retail outlets it supplies with pork products got some serious reaction after it was released Wednesday.
Iowa
This might not be the best time to release an undercover video of cruelty to Iowa farm animals.
A bill to outlaw such videos, and punish people who make them,
An E. coli O157:H7 outbreak that sickened eight people in four states last December led to the closure of Sally Jackson Cheeses, which for 30 years had crafted rustic
After the Chino slaughterhouse was caught on video kicking, dragging, shocking and ramming nonambulatory cows, the California Legislature responded by making it illegal for the meat industry to butcher so
