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) announced a low health risk, second-class recall over the weekend.
It involves about 10,368 pounds of
Food Safety News entered its seventh month of publishing this past week. We thought now would be a good time to speak to food industry executives.
This week we learned
Taylor’s Maid-Rite in Marshalltown, Iowa learned Friday that in politics, biting the hand that feeds you is not all that unusual.
The iconic restaurant kicked off its campaign for
The most positive sign yet that the Peanut Corporation of America’s (PCA’s) Stewart Parnell may yet face federal prosecution has been spotted in Virginia.
Thomas J. Bondurant, Jr.
The Spice Barn and C. H. Guenther & Son, Inc. this week joined the recall of products made with pepper purchased from the same supplier used by Rhode Island’s
A public health alert is out in the United States about ready-to-eat meat from Canada.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued the
Two seafood processing facilities–one in California and the other in Ohio—were on the receiving end of “Warning Letters” from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that
As far back as at least 2000, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been warning a Louisiana sprout company about its “seriously poor sanitary conditions and controls.
Basic Food Flavors–the company that made the hydrolyzed vegetable protein or HVP contained in 159 products recalled since the crisis over the ingredient began–tried talking for the first
The ongoing recall of products made with hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) made by Basic Food Flavors, Inc., located in North Las Vegas, NV, continues to grow. The latest additions to
Meat is hitting the proverbial fan in Canada.
It seems Canadians are taking exception to having meat for domestic consumption coming in for less scrutiny than any product bound for
U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White Tuesday denied a request for a preliminary injunction against using Monsanto’s Roundup Ready sugar beet seed during the upcoming planting season.
The
