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.
Uncommon as typhoid fever is in the United States, a rare outbreak is underway in California and Nevada, and it may spread to other western states where a frozen fruit
Goya Foods, Inc. said Thursday it was recalling its 14-ounce packages of frozen Mamey Pulp for possible Salmonella contamination.
The Secaucus, NJ-based company said no illnesses have been
A complaint by a local dairy farmer sent the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to the Goshen, CA-based Western Milling Company for a comprehensive inspection last March 18-
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
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.
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
