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.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) recently conducted a Food Safety Assessment at Fort Worth’s Beltex Corporation and discovered possible E. coli
A Washington state woman who made one false report too many about a piece of glass in a bottle of water is getting both jail time and home detention, according
Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, the President’s choice to be the next Under Secretary of Food Safety at the Department of Agriculture, Monday will begin her fourth month of waiting to
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a statement Tuesday, saying “a story in today’s Washington Post leaves a mistaken impression that the FDA has begun the
The Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America, known as R-CALF USA, wants the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point abandoned or revamped
Since President Obama made his pick to be Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture for Food Safety, top officials at USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
By mistakenly not disclosing wheat starch on the ingredient label, a California meat processor has been forced to recall 140,000 pounds of fully cooked assorted products.
Santa Ana-based Westlake
WinCo Foods announced Saturday that it is issuing an expansion of a Class 1 recall of fresh ground beef products to include ground beef sold at all of its retail
Last year, the federal government issued egg safety regulations designed to prevent Salmonella Enteritidis in shell eggs during production, transportation, and storage.
Now, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Within our little circle of writers, editors, and freelancers, we at Food Safety News are often having a conversation about not getting distracted. We want to focus like a laser
Mobile Bay’s oyster areas are open to harvesting again after being closed for 24 days. Public oyster reefs, however, remain off limits as Alabama’s Marine Resources Division moves
Florida growers have not yet recovered from the early 2010 cold snap that led to a nationwide tomato shortage and they are still dealing with those pesky penny-a-pound for pickers
