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.
Since the 1970s when Americans went through a few life-threatening botulism outbreaks because of low-acid foods improperly packaged in hermetically sealed containers, there have been rules in place to prevent
After years of success with tough love, USDA has opted for a more lenient approach for dealing with Brucellosis, a disease that can induce fevers, sweating, weakness, anemia, headaches, muscular
For the second time in less than a year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has sent a warning letter to the world’s largest airline food service about
The child nutrition bill President Obama is expected to sign is supposed to make school breakfasts, lunches, and after-school meal programs nutritious for all.
And to make sure no one
Canada’s small meat processors operating without the benefit of federal inspection have the same problem, as do their counterparts in the United States. They cannot sell their products outside
The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility left $1 billion on the table when it opted not to recommend Congress charge the meat and poultry industry for inspection service.
Co-chairs Erskine
Before he was Secretary of Agriculture, and before he was governor of Iowa, Tom Vilsack was mayor of Mount Pleasant, a town of less than 8,000 citizens residing on
Friz-It Cold Storage Inc. advertises itself as being both “FDA/HACCP compliant” and for having the “newest, best-designed” cold storage for the fresh and frozen fish and seafood industry in
A Los Angles tuna and wahoo fish importer is violating federal food safety regulations, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
In an Oct. 15 warning letter to Prime Time
Environmental samples taken from inside a south Chicago fresh produce plant tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA said it took the samples
The bill that is supposed to empower the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) instead contains some restrictions when it comes to the oyster industry thanks to one Louisiana senator.
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