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.
In nine years, no positive results in regulatory tests for E coli O157:H7 have been found in 10,000 samples of dry and semi-dry fermented sausages and fully
Lest you think that fruit-flavored concoctions mixing caffeine with alcohol were the extreme edge of the supplement industry, please meet Lazy Cakes.
After the Red Bull era, in which
A sardine cannery in Scotland and a pollock processor in South Korea are the latest foreign seafood companies that could lose the ability to export products to the United States.
I will admit I do have a fascination with Plum Island.
When I learned last week that there was a criminal investigation open over locating a “new Plum Island” in
Self-proclaimed as “Central Ohio’s premiere catering service,” Tufo’s To Go is also an airline catering facility, but it has been told to make food-safety improvements.
In
More stress before slaughter makes animals more susceptible to being the source of foodborne illnesses and some say that is a problem particular to confined-animal operations and the industrial
Mysterious animal research that has long gone on at Plum Island is supposed to be transferred to a new National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility to be built in the
Oysters from one harvest area of Florida’s Apalachicola Bay should not be eaten, served, purchased, sold or shipped, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in an
The latest outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease have already cost South Korea $2.6 billion, and the latest victim could be its bottled water industry.
South Korea has been
Coming a year after an oil spill and six years after a hugely damaging hurricane, the Gulf oyster industry fears too much fresh water coming down the Mississippi River could
All the lobbyists billing their respective and mostly meat industry clients made the point one more time Monday — they do not want fees replacing what the taxpayers now ante up
BON SECOUR, AL — Chris Nelson, vice president of Bon Secour Fisheries Inc., knew a year ago when the BP oil spill had just begun that the hardest damages to settle
