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 juice processing facility operated by St. Thomas Dairies in the Virgin Islands of the United States is violating important food safety regulations.
A Sept. 25 warning letter from the
Starting in 2011, hospitals in the United Kingdom will be reporting on two more types of “health care associated” infections–E coli and methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA).
UK hospital
Sun Country Airlines, a leisure carrier based in Mendota Heights, MN, just got a lesson in the form of a warning letter from FDA on keeping food safe with proper
Fresh Express, the nation’s dominant bagged salad producer, needs to review its criteria for receipt of raw products, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) .
In
UPDATE II: We now believe, based on Gulf oyster industry sources that have been reliable in the past, that the substance found in oysters at Vinnie’s Raw Bar last
For more than five years, the state of Oklahoma has been suing chicken companies mostly based in Arkansas for allegedly polluting the Illinois River with poultry litter.
Nothing has been
Hong Kong’s Center for Food Safety (CFS) recently went looking for formaldehyde in noodlefish, and found it.
CFS, a unit of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department that serves
Could this be the “last hurrah” for Rep. John Dingell, dean of the U.S. House and author of the food safety bill?
His Republican opponent, medical doctor Rob Steele,
If USDA was not the government, would the law look at the way it uses the “organic” label as “misbranding” or possibility a claim that it just cannot substantiate?
USDA’
Federal officials have gone to court to prevent a Brooklyn company from any further processing and distributing of its juice products.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), represented
A Nanaimo cannery on Canada’s Vancouver Island could see its canned sockeye salmon blocked from entry to the United States if it does not quickly fix its low-acid canning
What happens to lettuce leaves and other leafy greens that become contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 and then suffer insect or mechanical damage?
Can the bacteria then become internalized,
