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.
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
The 99-year old International Association of Food Protection starts its four-day annual meeting today at the Anaheim Convention Center.
Food Safety News is an exhibitor at the meeting, and attendees
Much hang-wringing goes on today around the theme that the media is headed on a downward spiral so severe that only government intervention can save it.
Spare me.
No doubt
E. coli bacteria have already shown some resistance to gentamicin, a heat-stable antibiotic. And sulfamethazine, a sulfonamide antibacterial, is one of the most common animal drugs used on dairy farms.
Located off Interstate 77 in Hamptonville, NC, the 33-year-old CMC Commodity Transport Inc. trucks products in both food-grade tankers and “walking floor” trailers.
During an inspection last Feb. 8 &
When the domestic catfish industry talks about its competition from the “Mekong Delta” being unfair and maybe illegal, it sometimes sounds a little paranoid, Now, however, U.S. catfish producers
Fish processing and general sanitation problems plague BCS African Wholesale Food Supply in Brooklyn Park, MN, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a July 20 warning letter.
In the 1971 Pentagon Papers case, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against “prior restraint” of the media by government except in very extraordinary circumstances.
The threshold to impose prior restraint
Another pet food recall is in the works because of possible Salmonella contamination.
This time it is the Procter & Gamble Company that is recalling cat food. The company’s
