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.
Patulin is a toxic substance produced by molds that may grow in apples. While there are no documented cases of human illnesses caused by patuylin, the U.S. Food and
Love him or hate him, Michael Taylor is sharing his views on occasion in Atlantic Magazine’s online Food Wire. Taylor, officially the senior advisor to U.S. Food and
Another year, another peanut butter recall.
This time Coon Rapids, MN-based Parkers Farm, Inc. is recalling peanut butter and other products because they may be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Tuesday rolled out the first phase of its Transparency Initiative, which is designed to explain agency operations, how it makes decisions, and
During November, Hong Kong’s Center for Food Safety found 99.6 percent of the 4,700 food samples it tested safe.
About 3,000 were subjected to chemical tests
Packaged and restaurant foods should reduce their salt content by 25 percent over the next five years, says a national campaign led by New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Farley.
Five samples from pigs at the Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse last month tested positive for human swine influenza at the University of Hong Kong, the city’s Food and Environmental Hygiene
Athol, MA-based Adams Farm Slaughterhouse, LLC., late Monday recalled approximately 2,574 pounds of beef that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, according to the U.S. Department
The American Meat Institute (AMI) is coming down on the side of Mexico and Canada when it comes to opposing the USA’s Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) as mandated
The FDA announced Friday that a Maryland seafood processor delivering fresh, frozen, and ready-to-eat seafood in Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C., is to stop processing and distributing
The first meat recall of 2010 occurred over the weekend when San Bernardino, CA-based Rudolph Foods Company Inc. asked consumers to send back 205 pounds of pork skin products.
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Phosphorus-loading rivers and lakes is the down side to using poultry litter as a cheap form of fertilizer.
But nitrogen in chicken manure means it releases nitrogen oxide when burned
