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.
One of my news alerts lit up like a Christmas tree over the Fourth of July weekend.
Most, I think, use news alerts for topics and events that occur with
Meat recalls during the first half of the year have taken on some unusual patterns. The number of recalls for pathogens found in beef, pork, and poultry has dropped off
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) policy remains unchanged: the agency considers any disease-causing strain of E. coli to be illegal.
Why that statement was removed from a press
The size and severity of Europe’s E. coli O104:H4 outbreak was coming into worldwide focus as May passed into June, and it was time for the American government
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
