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.
Non-ambulatory disabled veal calves and other animals that cannot walk on their own on to the kill floor should be “humanely euthanized,” two animal welfare groups say.
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The 20-year-old Chantel’s Cakes and Pastries, located not far off the runways near Washington’s Dulles International Airport, has found that a federal case is being made of its
For a time, canned black beans from Japan’s Sanuki Kanzume Co. near Yurihonjyo-shi west of Tokyo were prevented from entering the U.S. because the plant was not registered
There were more than 100 food recalls during the just-ended first quarter of the year, according to federal food safety agencies.
At least 48 of the 103 recalls — almost half
The Meiko Food Company Inc., True World Food Boston, LLC, and Able Cold Storage and Trucking are the latest seafood processors to receive warning letters after federal food inspectors visited
Juice, bread, and the Norwegian flatbread called lefsa are not the kind of products that come to mind when one thinks about the risk of foodborne illnesses.
But a series
Nebraska may soon join 27 other states with their own meat and poultry inspection services under a bill passed by the Unicameral Legislature. In a 35-1 vote, it asked the
Truth be told, I do not get out much.
Mostly I keep my head down, talk to people on the telephone, and exchange endless email traffic. My routine outings in
Queseria Chipilo’s recall last August of Oaxaca String, Queso Fresco, and Queso Fresco Hoja De Plátano cheeses due to Listeria contamination was only the tip of the pathogen iceberg.
Jonathan’s Sprouts Inc. is not the first food company to get into trouble for its website. The way the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sees it, company
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has criticized Air Wisconsin’s Canadair Regional Jets out of Philadelphia for operating in January with non-working toilets and lavatories. One jet,
Dixie Mills Old Fashioned Yellow Grits, manufactured in Tifton, GA, were being made in an inadequately maintained facility infested with rodents and insects, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
