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.
A strain of Salmonella commonly found in Thailand found its way to the United States in late 2008 and early in 2009 on the back of imported white pepper popular
The publisher wanted one of us to attend last week’s meetings of the International Association for Food Protection at the Anaheim Convention Center near Disneyland. I decided to go
A one million pound recall of ground beef contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 associated with an outbreak in California may have come too late to do much good.
Still,
Miami-based Optimus Inc., doing business as “Marky’s,” has recalled Eugenio Brezzi Truffle Puree products imported from Italy.
Consumers in possession of any of these products should return it for
Possible Salmonella contamination has prompted Merrick Pet Care Inc. to add 83 additional cases of its “Texas Hold’ems” Beef Filet Squares for Dogs to an ongoing recall.
The first
Pregnant women who come from ethnic backgrounds and low-income areas have a higher risk of infection from listeria food poisoning, according to research for the United Kingdom’s Health Protection
Last summer in back-to-back outbreaks of drug-resistant strains of Salmonella, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) made history by recalling more than a 1.2 million pounds of
ANAHEIM–A truly international panel of experts on “the significance and detection of STEC or Non-O157:H7 Escherichia coli” did not even get around to expressing opinions on whether any
ANAHEIM — Daniel Salmon did not 125 years ago discover the pathogen Salmonella. His student Theobald Smith did. The bacteria has so “befuddled” science since then that Salmon might well have
ANAHEIM—Most people who engage in the tap versus bottled water debate probably do not know the extent to which the federal government goes to make sure there is not
ANAHEIM– If you test enough flour you can find some contaminated by the potentially deadly pathogen–E. coli O157:H7–but testing probably is not going to do much when
When you copy somebody else’s work, it is called plagiarism. One
exception to that rule, however, is when one Congressman or Senator
takes language from a colleague’s bill
