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.
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
On March 11 President Obama expressed his “deepest condolences” to the Japanese people for that day’s earthquake and tsunami. Later the same day he announced that he’d dispatched
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says a Washington state dairy farm gave a false guaranty to a buyer that all animals it was providing for sale or
If you go picking dandelions in the vicinity of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, you probably do not want to eat them.
But just as reports of a
This weekend finds me on light duty, taking in some spring training games in the Phoenix area.
The main reason I had to come down was to see Salt River
Seafood processors in California, North Carolina, Texas, and Louisiana are recent recipients of warning letters from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for violations found during inspections.
FDA
Baltimore’s Goetze’s Candy is making a nutritional claim it cannot back up, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration charged in a March 4 warning letter to the
Michigan’s Amting Dairy Farm — located at Marshall near the Intersection of Interstates 69 and 94 — has a mid-sized herd of dairy cows and is a fairly typical for the
Maybe it was a poor choice of words, but it was an honest expression from top field management of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Barbara Cassens, FDA’
