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 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is having a little disagreement with a Fort Lauderdale seafood processing facility over how to control the potential for deadly botulism.
The
Last week I opted to dispense with sharing some more good news about Food Safety News in order to share another of my solutions for solving a food safety problem.
Oysters collected from the waters of the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana are turning up with extremely high levels of cadmium, a toxic heavy metal. The amounts–at 150 to
In a letter delivered to each member of the Oregon Legislature Wednesday, the Oregon Dairy Farmers Association (ODFA) told why it opposes opening up the gates on unpasteurized milk in
Minnesota’s “cheeseburger bill” is back on the grill in St. Paul.
State Rep. Dean Urdahl, R-Grove City, has again introduced legislation to bar obese Minnesotans from suing their
Mold, maggots and flies were found during a federal inspection of a Pennsylvania canning factory.
In a Feb. 2 warning letter, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) details
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released the form 483 inspection report for Urbana, IL-based Tiny Greens Organic Farms.
It sheds more light on how Tiny
When you’ve been running the board in a San Francisco courtroom and you are on the verge of having genetically modified (GM) sugar beets torn up by their roots,
Food prices, salt, and waste all topped concerns about food safety in the periodic tracking survey conducted in the United Kingdom for the Food Standards Agency.
In a November 2010
Hong Kong ceased testing all German food products for dioxin, switching Feb. 1 to sample checks after more than 100 tests for the chemical were negative.
The Food and Environmental
Just a few hours before writing this week’s column, I thought I was going to refrain from expressing an opinion on anything and just stick to reporting on some
