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 National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF) has been re-chartered to add a consumer group representative; USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Thursday.
Established
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration subjected $700,000 of rice and other food in a warehouse already under order preventing its sale by the Georgia Department of Agriculture
Lao Trading Company of Nashville and owner Peng Bandith have agreed not to distribute food through interstate commerce that was held in insanitary conditions.
The agreement comes in the form
Iowa Health Director Tom Newton has heard the appeal of Taylor’s Maid-Rite in Marshalltown, but has not yet issued a decision, says department spokesperson Polly Carver-Kimm.
And while it
The hemolytic uremic syndrome rate seen in two years ago in Oklahoma’s outbreak of E. coli O111:NM was comparable to that typically seen in E. coli O157:H7-related
The former owner of the Llay Fish Bar will be back in the magistrates’ court on Dec. 9.
Ramazan Aslan, 35, is charged with nine counts of breaching food hygiene
Last week’s seizure of all the cheeses and other food products from the Estrella Family Creamery was more by the book than “Gestapo-like.”
U.S. District Attorney for Western
DNA sampling of Indiana ports and harbors near Lake Michigan by researchers from the University of Notre Dame has found no evidence of Asian carp making it into those areas.
Early during the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, I found myself in a small Mississippi take-out restaurant nearing the order counter while still reading the menu when
After third-party audits turned out to be embarrassments for Peanut Corporation of America and Wright County Egg, the independent inspection industry must be hoping the “third strike” won’t come
The “cowgirl superstar” whose life story won a boatload of Emmys is now speaking out about changes to livestock marketing rules that she says will have negative consequences for animal
In a year when everything from alfalfa sprouts to chicken soup, and from eggs to black pepper and a lot more were recalled for Salmonella contamination, there is still time
