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.
Fourth graders at a Raymond, Wisconsin elementary school got a painful lesson earlier this month. They drank unpasteurized milk at a North Cape Elementary School event on Friday, June 3
Staphyloicoccus aureus (S. aureus) was found inside a Chicago-area cake bakery and in the topping used to finish its cakes, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a
Like an aftershock following a big earthquake, an outbreak of E. coli is causing apprehension in France, but is said to be unrelated to the larger outbreak of O104:H4
Sometimes events just run over the best planned lobbying strategy.
Take the American Meat Institute (AMI) for example. Wednesday found it again rolling out what it claims are problems with
A second food manufacturer — this one a small California company — received a warning letter earlier this month after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found Listeria monocytogenes on
A rodent problem and labeling errors were cited in an inspection report filed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after it visited the ADAO food manufacturing facility
Some estimates are slowly starting to come in for the painful suffering and deaths associated with Europe’s ongoing E. coli O104 outbreak.
Until now, the price tags on the
At its Augusta, GA factory, Kellogg makes many of its baked products — including Keebler, Famous Amos and Murray cookies, as well as Kashi and Mother’s brand products.
The plant
In Egg Industry Magazine’s annual list of the “Top 60” egg producers, the West Mansfield, OH-based Nature Pure was not the biggest.
It was the smallest with 200,000
Clusters of E. coli infection reported in Eastern Tennessee could be the “new normal” as non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) take their place beside O157, making outbreaks all that
Juice processing facilities in Indiana and Puerto Rico received warning letters recently from the Food and Drug Administration after failing inspections conducted last year.
Both a Feb. 23 warning letter