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.
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.
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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’
The food industry is telling Congress it is all for food safety, it just does not want to pay for it.
No less than 17 food industry organizations signed on
Who would have thought that when Minnesota went fishing for whomever was responsible for an E. coli outbreak in the Midwest, they’d reel in the hazelnut baron of Oregon’
As fish stories go, this one never seems to end.
Just when we thought it could not get any better, along comes John McCain and that baron of food safety,
Refrigerated tuna salad and raw shucked scallops in Grand Rapids, fish sauce and frozen salted fish in San Jose, and refrigerated pasteurized crabmeat and fresh tuna in Boston are among
