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.
A settlement has been reached between victims of the Peanut Corporation of America-caused Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court trustee.
It will allow $12 million in personal
As of Sunday, owners of horses that may be sold to Canadian meat processors face some new requirements in Canada.
After Jan. 31st, all equine owners intending to sell animals
The ready-to-eat meat maker Daniele International Inc., with operations in Pascoag and Mapleville, R.I., is expanding its January 23rd recall of 1.24 million pounds of salami/salame.
It
Jerold Mande, the Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety, told a University of Florida audience last week that as many as 80 percent of foodborne illnesses could be caused by
The Canadian Supply Chain Food Safety Coalition is asking Prime Minister Stephen Harper for a new round of consultations between Ministers of Health, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the agri-food
Only 12 of 6,100 food samples tested by the Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety last month returned “unsatisfactory” results, the city’s Food and Environmental Hygiene Department reports.
Last April I was with the civil plaintiff attorneys and their experts who were working for the victims of the Peanut Corporation of America tragedy when we were all allowed
This week’s Enforcement Report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration includes one more recall from Oregon’s problem with Salmonella in hazelnuts.
The rest of the actions
A college professor, a consumer group, and the union representing meat inspectors all dumped on Canada’s food safety agency this week with the barbs obviously intended for Ottawa’s
At least 45,000 illnesses and 32 deaths resulted from 5,332 outbreaks of contaminated food during 2008 in the European Union, a new report says.
Those are among the
Jersey City-based Well Luck Company Inc. is recalling approximately 50,000 pounds of instant noodle products made in China that were ineligible for import to the U.S., according to
A nationwide raw chicken parts microbiological baseline study to provide regulators and the poultry industry with data on the prevalence and quantitative levels of certain foodborne pathogens and microorganisms is
