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 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.
The owner of a packaged food warehouse has yet to provide documentation or photographs of improvements made to his building since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’
Full-blown hearings before Congress’s most powerful investigative panel–like those held after the nationwide spinach, peanut, and egg outbreaks, complete with victim testimony and the occasional food-industry
Ted Turner’s 4,600 head of Bison on his Flying D Ranch has a Brucellosis problem, according to the Montana State Veterinarian.
The bacteria disease has been absent from
Some restaurants never recover from a run-in with E. coli O157:H7.
Peppa’s Korean Barbeque on King Street is Honolulu is the latest example of a restaurant failing
Fines for violating Canada’s Health of Animals Act have more than doubled, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency reports.
In a statement, CFIA said the Government of Canada is cracking
Food safety officials in the United Kingdom are not yet seeing the end of the outbreak of Salmonella Bareilly that has been linked to contaminated bean sprouts.
The Health Protection
Our editors met this past week in Chicago in conjunction with the American Conference Institute’s Foodborne Illness Litigation event.
It was the second year we’ve done this, and
Two Indiana dairy farms recently sold animals for slaughter that were later found to be carrying drug residues at levels higher than allowed by the U.S. Food and Drug
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.
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
