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 Salmonella bareilly outbreak in the United Kingdom is now all but certain to be stemming from the consumption of raw or under-cooked bean sprouts, the UK’s Health Protection
American milk quality may be improving, as U.S. dairies get ready to comply with tighter European standards for somatic cell counts (SCC).
Somatic cells are white blood cells and
Three Pennsylvania dairy farms are abusing penicillin, neomycin, and flunixin–all drugs used to treat animals, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
In warning letters to
Significant violations of federal food regulations were found during an inspection of a food commodity warehouse owned by the Quinault Indian Nation located on Washington state’s Pacific Coast.
The
Hardly a week goes by without the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) handing out an official warning to an American dairy farmer about the overdose of antibiotics in
POM Wonderful has upset another government agency by being way too enthusiastic about its products.
After 19 months of investigation, the Federal Trade Commission Monday charged POM Wonderful LLC in
A Michigan organic soy flour maker that appeared to be caught up in the national recall of hydrolyzed vegetable protein from a North Las Vegas food processing plant earlier this
A dairy cow from a farm near Petaluma, CA was sold for slaughter as food with antibiotic levels in its edible tissues high enough to consider the meat adulterated.
The
Food Safety News has not yet written the obituary for S. 510, the food safety bill.
Any bill that might garner as many as 90 votes in the 100-member U.
Raw bean sprouts are the suspected source of a Salmonella Bareilly outbreak underway since early August in the United Kingdom.
An increasing number of S. Bareilly cases, now as many
Organic milk consumers, who sued some of the nation’s biggest retailers in 19 separate class action lawsuits, are going to get their day in court.
After those actions were
Over 70 tons of ethnic foods stored in a pest-infected warehouse near the intersection of Interstates 405 and 10 in southern California had to be destroyed earlier this year.
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