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 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
TV’s role in the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak of 2008, which wreaked havoc with the nation’s tomato crop, is the subject of a new academic study by Texas Tech
Except for 1974 when Watergate padded the rolls of Tip O’Neill’s majority with another 48 votes, Congress never got much of my attention during my politically impressionable years.
Smoked salmon from Scotland contaminated with Listeria is on the recall list in Hong Kong.
The public was warned Thursday not to eat “Loch Fyne” pre-packed ready-to-eat smoked salmon products
More than two dozen people have been infected by an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak that is being preliminarily blamed on cheese that was sold and offered in free samples
Another day brings more bad news for still-closed SanGar Fresh Cut Produce. This time it was the release of the FDA Form 483 report containing observations of the federal food
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) late Wednesday expanded its Oct. 30 public health alert for an undetermined amount of various meat and poultry products produced without the
As SanGar Fresh Cut Produce in San Antonio enters a third week of being closed by order of the Texas Department of State Health, the U.S. Food and Drug
The prescription animal drug Neomycin is an antibiotic. It kills bacteria rapidly by suppressing protein synthesis and growth.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tolerance level is 7.
