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.
This is “Opening Day” weekend, so named because the Major League Baseball (MLB) season begins. Opening Day is the most important day on the national calendar because it is all
A ban on food and water from Japan, more radiation monitoring, soil and irrigation water sampling, and more money for food inspections are needed to protect against radiation emissions crossing
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has decided to tweak procedures it follows in monitoring for the chemical residues left by animal drugs. It is going to take more
The U.S. government’s “right hand” was grading and okaying egg shipments while its “left hand” was testing for and finding Salmonella contamination. And the right hand had no
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is getting an extra $100 million to improve food inspection capacity over the next five years.
But the union president representing CFIA employees says the
The Rhode Island Department of Health’s state laboratories were working over the weekend to pinpoint the exact source of the Salmonella infections that have apparently made 25 people sick
The anhydrous ammonia leak Wednesday at the JBS pork plant in the Butchertown neighborhood east of Louisville’s downtown was called “an extremely scary industrial accident” by a local resident
Those leafy greens from California filling America’s salad bowls are safe to eat, so stop worrying about this radiation from Japan business–OK?
That pretty much says it. At
Japanese milk and spinach just do not factor much in the U.S. food supply, but what about radioactive fish?
Five billion pounds of seafood are imported annually to the
