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.
It was getting a little ripe in the Cheese Curd Capital of Wisconsin. The state Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection had put a hold order on removing food
Harold Lee Hanks was so ill, weak, and disoriented by Jan. 23 after eating salami he purchased at his local Wal-Mart six days earlier that his wife demanded that he
Brooklyn’s Wholesome Spice and Seasonings was not the only company supplying black pepper contaminated with Salmonella Montevideo to Daniele Inc., the Rhode Island Department of Health said Wednesday.
Dayton,
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to hear from one foreign and two domestic seafood processors who share the problem of “having serious violations” of seafood Hazard
Rockville, Missouri-based West Missouri Beef is recalling approximately 14,000 pounds of fresh boneless beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of
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The People’s Republic of China clearly is not handling the latest melamine-tainted milk problem like it did the last time.
The slow action that marked the last melamine-in-milk scandal
Somewhere in the 135,000 tons of fresh black pepper Vietnam shipped around the world last year is the end of a supply chain that is making people sick in
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
