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.
FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) this past summer released its draft guidance on “The Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobial Drugs in Food-Producing Animals.”
The week before the
The Murphy House, a North Carolina processing plant for barbecue meats Wednesday issued its third recall for the year. This time, the problem is Salmonella contamination in 4,920 pounds
Deadly chopped celery contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes was traced back Wednesday to Sangar Fresh Cut Produce in San Antonio, and the company was ordered to stop processing food and recall
Catfish and carp being processed by Wisconsin’s Blum’s Spring Lake Fisheries is adulterated and misbranded, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Located in Potosi–
Whether they are truly motivated by their concern for food safety, or whether they just want to erect a trade barrier, U.S. catfish farmers are methodical in keeping pressure
Increase the number of local inspections by combining food safety and health and safety inspectors, and then make the Food Standards Agency’s public rating system mandatory.
Those are among
In the official documents piling up over the nationwide outbreak of Salmonella, Austin J. “Jack” DeCoster, who may be the nation’s No. 1 egg producer, is getting only the
An Indiana dairy farm signed a “Livestock Owner Certificate” promising buyers that animals it sold would be free of illegal levels of drug residues.
Now, however, USDA’s Food Safety
Like many foodborne illnesses, toxic honey poisoning can be a killer.
Symptoms include vomiting, delirium, giddiness, increased excitability, stupor, coma, and violent convulsions. And it can be a quick tipping
I was standing outside a John Morrell plant waiting for my candidate, who was campaigning inside, when I first heard it. It was such a simple and efficient food safety
Meat processing was temporarily suspended at Tyson’s deli meats plant in Buffalo, NY, an action that by week’s end put 480 people out of work.
The action was
A Bronx seafood processor-importer is not doing enough to prevent botulism in its smoked fish product.
Botulism is a potentially deadly infection caused by the Clostridium botulinum bacteria.
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