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 first possible destruction of a genetically modified crop in the United States is not going to happen without review by higher courts.
Monsanto Company said Wednesday it would appeal
Since last August when his egg production was found to be the likely source of a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis (SE), “Jack” DeCoster has not been allowed to sell
Melamine-ware used by local food premises is safe to use, Hong Kong’s Center for Food Safety (CFS) found in a risk assessment study.
Tableware products made of melamine-formaldehyde resins
The New York City-led National Salt Reduction Initiative (NSRI) continues to pick up commitments.
Latest to sign on are Hostess, Butterball, Snyder’s of Hanover, Premio, Furmano’s and Delhaize
The Gulf seafood story, which began with the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform and subsequent spill of BP’s oil, is ending 2010 on a decidedly
A commercial poultry farm located about 18 miles northwest of Winnipeg has been placed under quarantine because of low pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed
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Oklahoma’s newly elected leadership, Republicans Governor-elect Mary Fallin and Attorney General-elect Scott Pruitt, say they have the future of the state’s litigation against the poultry industry over its
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sends warning letters out to manufacturers and processors with food safety problems that sometimes also point up how much misunderstanding still exists.
The Indiana State Department of Health placed flour under embargo from a food processing and storage facility in Indianapolis that Food and Drug Administration inspectors depicted as “contaminated with filth.
Butcher William John Tudor sold rotten meat for years, according to testimony in a coroner’s inquest in Wales this week, but that did not lead to a verdict against
The Artesian Trout Farm, a seafood processing facility in Westfield, WS, is producing air packed hot-smoked trout and salmon that is adulterated or impure and it is misbranded, the Food
