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.
Unlike most states considering changes to their laws governing raw milk, Wisconsin’s $26 billion dairy industry has some real “skin in the game.”
A Wisconsin Senate committee has advanced
Africa is getting chairs at the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) table where food safety and animal and plant health issues are decided.
WTO is giving observer status to
Another company that gets its pepper from Mincing Overseas Spice Company recalled several of its own products over the weekend for possible Salmonella contamination.
Elgin, IL-based John B. Sanfilippo &
Fines of $3,000 for each of two counts of violating the Canadian Meat Inspection Act were imposed last year on an Ontario company after guilty pleas were entered.
The
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.
