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.
After using the federal rule-making process to solicit a couple hundred pro and con comments on a proposed ban on peanuts on commercial carriers, the U.S. Department of Transportation
Hong Kong’s Center for Food Safety has released the findings of its Food Safety Report for April.
Out of the 3,700 food samples tested, three samples were found
Romeoville, IL-based Great Kitchens, Inc. recalled approximately 109,800 pounds of BBQ chicken pizza products that may contain foreign materials on June 25.
According to the U.S. Department of
Just how big the Marie Callender’s Cheesy Chicken & Rice frozen meal recall and the associated outbreak of Salmonella Chester are is now coming into focus.
First, a week
As we near our 300th day of publishing Food Safety News, we are experiencing one of the big benefits of the season–our summer interns!
We are very fortunate to
Routine Spinach sampling by the North Carolina Department of Food & Drug Protection came back positive for Listeria monocytogenes and sparked a multi-state recall this week.
Fresh Spinach sold under
Some of its most popular breakfast cereals have flunked Kellogg’s taste and smell tests, prompting it to voluntarily issue a recall of up to 28 million boxes of the
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
