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.
FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO–At the Waffle House restaurant across the street from the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino, locals at the breakfast counter were reacting to articles in
FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO — Make a mistake about Gulf Coast oyster facts–say by running a picture showing Crassostrea gigas or Pacific oysters instead of Crassostrea virginica or Eastern
When they talk among themselves they simply refer to Hurricane Katrina as “the storm.”
In the Mississippi town of D’Iberville, where seafood processing facilities fell under as much as
FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO–The Golden Gulf Seafood Company in Biloxi and C.F. Gollott & Son Seafood located on the Back Bay in D’Iberville are two Mississippi
FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO–Chris Nelson is in charge of oyster procurement for his family’s 114-year old company, Bon Secour Fisheries Inc. With the BP oil spill offshore,
An October 2008 outbreak of antibiotic-resistant ESBL strain of E. coli caused the infection of 13 newly born babies at the neonatal intensive care unit at Luton and Dunstable Hospital
State and federal officials investigating a multistate non-O157 E. coli outbreak went into the weekend without naming either the exact strain or food source involved.
On background, food safety experts
FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO –Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal was first to start closing down the Gulf seafood industry when he put select fishing areas and oyster harvesting beds off
Routine sampling by the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets food inspectors and subsequent analysis by state food laboratory personnel have led to two separate recalls.
Northern Food
Stop and think about what you are doing.
We did that last weekend in Las Vegas. After publishing for 222 consecutive days, we took off last Saturday and Sunday so
Soy, one of the nine most common food allergens, was not listed on the label as an ingredient in Cuisine Bernart brand cabbage rolls being sold in retail markets in
Nutrition labels on the front of food packages are coming to a grocery shelf near you.
Before that happens, however, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to
