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.
At its height, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) closure of Gulf of Mexico waters to fishing covered an area larger than the State of Minnesota.
Now at just
The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, S. 510, will be brought to the floor of the U.S. Senate Wednesday for a procedural vote and party leaders expect it to
Think of the role of parents in advancing food safety in the United States. Nancy Donley, Suzanne Kiner, Peter Hurley, and Kip Moore are a few of the many who
Today is the first anniversary of the filing by USDA of a proposed rule with the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to establish a mandatory inspection program
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the United Kingdom may be about to do something that would be unthinkable in the United States—making the meat industry pay for the
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found serious violations of federal food safety regulations at three more seafood processing facilities, newly released warning letters show.
Seafood processing facilities
More than two years after China was bungling its way through the melamine-contaminated milk scandal, the father of one of the victims is being sent to prison for organizing other
The Mexicali Cheese Corp. processing facility in Woodhaven, NY is contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes in at least five locations, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says.
FDA inspected
The Obama Administration’s top food safety officials appear to be meeting more often with people outside the federal government than they did earlier in their tenure.
The Food Safety
Somewhere between when the Obama Asian Tour reaches Seoul, South Korea on Wednesday and when it moves over to Yokohama, Japan on Friday, the American president must get barriers to
An old food safety adage says that if one eats a hamburger, it might contain meat from 100 cows. That maxim might have to be expanded to advise that if
The first new policy on Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-to-Eat Foods since 2004 will take effect in Canada next April 1.
It represents another in the Government of Canada’s responses
