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.
Summer was only a day old when E. coli O157:H7 contamination brought the first large ground beef recall of the season.
Routine microbiological sampling by the U.S. Department
Oyster restoration projects, such as the effort to bring back the native Olympia oyster to some of the inland waters of Southern California, might someday replace Gulf oysters that go
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has found E. coli O157 contamination in the beef at a Bay Shore, NY processing company.
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The public warning issued on June 15, 2010 in Canada regarding packaged meat products has been expanded to include additional distribution information.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Lesters
Americans have an appetite for imported seafood. The U.S. consumed 2.395 billion pounds of foreign seafood last year. That was about 85 percent of the market.
Eating more
In cities and towns across America, there is one common topic being debated.
That subject is backyard chickens.
Oklahoma City is considering allowing people to raise chickens in residential areas,
Magic Power Coffee, an instant coffee product marketed as a dietary supplement for sexual enhancement, contains an active drug ingredient that can dangerously lower blood pressure, the U.S. Food
Allen Bavarian Crème Filling was recalled June 18 by Buffalo, NY-based Rich Products Corporation because pecans, milk, and coconut ingredients were undeclared.
The product code is 02881 and the production
An Oregon man who is part of the multistate outbreak of Salmonella Chester linked to Marie Callender’s Cheesey Chicken and Rice frozen meals is planning to file a lawsuit
Late in 1999, state and federal meat inspectors found the Santos Linquisa Sausage Factory located in a simple one story gray building the Bay area residential community of San Leandro,
As early as last October, Food Safety News reported on cooperative efforts by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on
