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 number 2 food safety story of the year concerned USDA’s regulatory bottleneck:
Abe Lincoln saw the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) created with his signature in 1862
In our top 17 food safety stories of 2010, first place goes to the food safety bill, which was supported by an unusual alliance–including consumer advocates, grocery manufacturers and
In our countdown of the year’s top food safety stories, number 3 was the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform explosion on the area’s seafood industry:
The
In our top food safety news stories of 2010, number 5 was about the ordeal of a young woman and an E. coli-contaminated hamburger:
Outbreaks and their victims sometimes go
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has obtained two more convictions for violations of legislation it is charged with enforcing.
Convictions of Claude Berni, president of Uni-Viande Inc., and a
In our countdown of the top 17 food safety stories of the year, number 7 is about pepper.
In a year when various strains of Salmonella infected people eating alfalfa
Number 8 in our list of the top 17 food safety news stories of 2010 is the frequency–or infrequency–of food inspections in the United States.
The headlines said
A low-acid canned food facility located in Chao Zhou, Taiwan, has “serious deviations” from the low-acid canned food regulations, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says.
United Taiwan
In our countdown of the top food safety news stories of 2010, the “Senate Confirms Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety” is number 10:
On or about the 611th
This is the fourth in our series of what we consider to be the 17 top food safety stories of 2010. Number 12 in the countdown: The Peanut Corporation of
Today is Boxing Day in large parts of the English-speaking world, but it is not celebrated in these United States nor should it be. That would be un-American.
We should
