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.
Ministers responsible for food safety in Australia and New Zealand are accepting comments until Friday on part of draft Intergovernmental Agreements that will help consumers and the food industry better
Nutrient trading, a market-based approach for protecting and improving water quality, is going into effect in Maryland. The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) will run the nutrient credit-trading program.
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No illnesses have been associated with a new recall of ready-to-eat meats for Listeria contamination that is certain to get a lot of attention in Canada.
The Canadian Food Inspection
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Monday announced new performance standards for the poultry industry to use in knocking down Salmonella and Campylobacter contamination levels.
Vilsack said after two years under the
Gulf watermen, be they out for shell or fin fish, did not get the news they wanted over the weekend as the colossal BP could not fill the hole spilling
Chicago’s Vienna Beef Ltd. of Chicago recalled approximately 49,600 pounds of fully cooked mini pretzel dog products over the weekend, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’
With the safety of Gulf seafood at risk, we mounted our own response last week to the oil spill that is threatening the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama coastlines. It was
Career service appointments in the federal government must go on even if the U.S. Senate has become a black hole for political appointments.
At the Food Safety and Inspection
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
