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.
A pink headline popped up late Wednesday on the Amarillo Globe-News website with a breaking news box that said: “E coli cases reported.”
“City of Amarillo has reported seven cases
The strain of Salmonella that sickened 94 people in 16 states and the District of Columbia last November and December does appear to have originated at a sprouts farm in
Texas Tech University graduate students recently went shopping in 32 cities in 28 states for the kind of non-O157 toxin-producing escherichia coli now killing people in Europe.
While they did
A warning letter for the misuse of the widely used animal antibiotic Neomycin was sent on May 9 to Minnesota’s Saemrow Dairy in Waterville by the U.S. Food
For 35,000 resident Americans and two million tourists from the states, leisurely dining out in Costa Rica is part of the “Pure Life.”
Restaurants in Costa Rica are regulated
More conversations were occurring this week about Food Safety News 2.0. Publisher Bill Marler explained as much as can be explained about this in his column last Sunday.
For
In the world of international diplomacy, it’s apparently more important to massage egos than to risk hurt feelings.
So a “dispute panel” appointed by the World Trade Organization (WTO)
The federal government has dropped the hammer on a 64-year old Portland mung bean sprout operation that distributed in Oregon and Washington.
At the behest of the U.S. Food
The consumer advocacy groups that went to court this week in an attempt to take non-therapeutic antibiotics away from animal agriculture ignored science, failed to cite any data and did
The same groups that did a pretty good job last year of convincing former CBS news anchor Katie Couric that giving antibiotics to the healthy animals we eat is not
The British consumer group that goes by the name “Which?” called it a U-turn as the United Kingdom’s Food Standards Agency decided to allow the sale of meat and
Do-N-Joy Holsteins at Arlington, MN was charged in a May 11 warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with misuse of the animal drug penicillin G procaine.
