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.
Buffalo, NY-based Zemco Industries recalled approximately 380,000 pounds of deli meat products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced late
With imports cut off and sugar available for purchase only with the right ration coupon, the federal government during World War II put out a poster that said: “Plant More
Seafood importers from Venezuela and Malaysia operating process facilities without proper Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) plans recently received warning letters from the U.S. Food and Drug
U.S. Marshals executed a federal court order to seize packaged food products by raiding a rat-infested old seed warehouse in Athens, GA that was being used by Mid-States Services
U.S. Senators from the Gulf states are asking President Obama to name a Gulf Seafood Advisory Group to advise federal agencies on a menu of concerns that continues in
It might exist.
But I have not seen any informed speculation on why President Obama opted to make a controversial “recess” appointment of Dr. Elisabeth Hagen as the new Under
Another Iowa producer Friday recalled a massive amount of eggs–this latest recall is for 170 million eggs sold under several brand names in at least 14 states.
Hillandale Farms
An outbreak of E. coli O157 in Winnipeg is being blamed on food eaten at a popular event known as Folklorama.
Up to 16 Canadians were treated at Winnipeg area
Product packaging–not its pasteurized dairy or juice products–appears to be to blame for the Salmonella Braenderup problem at Oregon’s Umpqua Dairy.
Umpqua Dairy of Roseburg began a
The nationwide Salmonella outbreak associated with the recall of 380 million eggs from a single Iowa producer got bigger yesterday.
And one of the nation’s top food safety advocates
A Bowling Green, KY juice maker is having trouble understanding how it can achieve a “5-log reduction in the pertinent microorganisms.”
In an Aug. 13 warning letter to Juice Pac
Three hundred eighty million bad eggs will end up as the prime suspects in many a court case before this all over.
That’s the new number–380 million–after
