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.
Michael Moss and members of the New York Times staff won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for telling Stephanie Smith’s story, it was announced Monday.
Smith is
Going into this past weekend, on April 10, WinCo Foods recalled all ground beef products sold at its Modesto, CA store between April 3 and 9, 2010.
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In areas of India where the Hindu majority holds sway, “spent cows” wander freely because they are considered sacred as motherly figures that gave people milk.
In the United States,
We are going to miss Bart Stupak.
Without Bart Stupak, the former Michigan State Patrol trooper who chairs the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, it is very doubtful that Congress
Just like Coke and Pepsi, the soda tax formula was a fairly simple fix. At one penny per gram of sugar, it could raise almost $15 billion a year.
After
A Central Indiana dairy farm sold a small herd of cattle for slaughter as food that tests showed had higher than permissible levels of various antibiotics in kidney and liver
Everybody agrees that proper hand washing is the best defense against foodborne illnesses. But is washing with regular soap and water enough, or should we be using those antibacterial soaps
Overland Park is going to continue frequent inspections of the nearly 600 food and beverage establishments located in the city west of Kansas City, just as it has done since
A packaging mistake has led McCormick & Company Inc. to recall its McCormick Fajitas Seasoning Mix with UPC Code 5210002121 and “BEST BY” dates of JAN 16 12 AH and
Is there a difference between banning a book and recalling a book for its content?
In Australia and New Zealand, a cookbook is being recalled because government health experts think
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has advised a Kentucky seafood processing facility to break the vacuum seals on its Tilapia packages before thawing the fish to eliminate
