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.
Sunic’s Food Inc, doing business as Sun Food Trading Company in Seattle, received an Aug. 4 warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about “serious
More than a month before the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon, Johnson Sea Products Inc. on the Gulf Coast in Coden, AL was having a bad day or two processing
Opening of some federal waters off the politically touchy coast of the Florida panhandle to fin fishing earlier this week underscores just how much control the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Pecan pieces, recalled last February by the American Pecan Company of Yancey, TX, were not only contaminated with Salmonella oranienburg, but were also misbranded.
The one-pound bags of Pecan Pieces
An ice cream manufacturing facility located in Washington state was found last spring with pests, poor screening, bad plumbing, cracked walls, and equipment and utensils that were not properly stored.
Indiana’s South Bend Chocolate Company Monday recalled 174 one-pound bags of Bountiful Blend–mixed nuts and dried fruits–because they contain undeclared cashews, almonds, pecans, and Brazil nuts.
People
Al Almanza, the top administrator at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, was quoted Monday in Food Chemical News saying that misuse of Ivermectin,
A maker of kosher salads in New York State is finding itself in trouble with two federal regulatory agencies.
U.F.S. Industries Inc., doing business as Sally Sherman Foods,
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
