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.
Whether it was Great Leap Forward turning out to be a reversal or the Cultural Revolution ending up in chaos, it was years before China’s top political bodies felt
The daily risk factor for consuminig raw milk might be acceptable were it not for the dire consequences involved when one’s proverbial luck runs out. It’s called a
After crossing 3,400 miles of the Pacific Ocean last year to inspect a tuna cannery on American Samoa, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspector asked for
Two Pennsylvania dairy farms were found selling bob veal calves for slaughter with higher than allowed levels of specific animal antibiotics in their edible tissues.
In Feb. 15 warning letters
The cattle states of Colorado and Nebraska are putting up some defenses over what’s going on with brucellosis up in the Yellowstone country of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.
The
Seafood processing facilities turning out lobster bisque, canned pasteurized crabmeat and refrigerated tuna loins, as well as yellow fin and big eye tuna, received warning letters in February about their
America’s Dairyland could dramatically raise the bar on raw milk regulation if its Legislature and governor ever allow it to be sold in Wisconsin.
A year after Wisconsin’s
I am proud to say that I am a card-carrying member of the International Association for Food Protection.
I am a member because last summer the publisher sent me at
Canadian courts have recently issued fines totaling $15,000 for violations of various federal meat, plant, and fish laws and their supporting regulations.
Montreal-based Les Aliments Rose Hill Inc. pleaded
When Angelenos gather at their favorite delis and the talk turns to pickles, they often learn the source is A-1 Eastern Homade.
A-1 supplies pickles to many delis in the
Domestic catfish producers Thursday accused the Government Accountability Office (GAO) of “back-peddling” on food safety in seafood inspections.
The Catfish Farmers of America took offense at GAO’s questions about
Tracy, CA-based Taylor Farms Pacific has recalled 64,000 pounds of chicken and pork products because the broccoli in the packages may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
No illnesses have
