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 half dozen seafood processors spent much of May and June trying to get back into compliance with federal regulations.
It might be too much to say that the U.
About a month ago, I was having this feeling that all news people occasionally get that the news of the future will never be as exciting or interesting as the
While acknowledging they have as many as four more cases of toxin-producing E. coli, health official in Northeast Tennessee are telling parents not to panic over stomach flu that is
At 985 locations around the United States, companies hold medicated feed licenses from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These licenses are held by some of agribusiness’s
Five years after the European Union banned antibiotics in animal feed, South Korea is about to become the first Asian country to embrace such a restriction.
Beginning in July, South
Anyone who eats canned goods from China and Thailand — especially mushrooms and baby corn — may be glad to know that U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cops have been
Other U.S. media had not yet figured out that an epic food safety story was breaking on the other side of the world when Food Safety News writer Gretchen
Amarillo, TX and Tulsa, OK are connected by 400 miles of freeway, Interstates 40 and 44, and now they share investigations of small clusters of E. coli O157:H7 infection
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
