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.
We are all going to be hearing a lot about traceability this year.
The Traceability Interoperability Summit is being held in Denver, Jan 21 and 22. Sponsored by the Colorado
The weekly “Enforcement Report” from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) always contains a nugget or two. The Jan.6th report is the first issued for 2010, but
Howard Thompson was a cold storage worker at Birdsong Peanuts in Blakely, GA last Sept. 28 when he was caught in a conveyor belt, injured critically, and died the same
Cowboys will be herding longhorns through the streets of downtown Denver today, and that means the 105th running of the National Western Stock Show is underway, today through Jan. 24th.
New York City’s Bao Ding Seafood is recalling Boiled Horse Mackerel that might be contaminated with clostridium botulinum, the bacterium that causes life-threatening botulism.
Consumers are warned not to
Two Canadian meat companies are paying big fines after pleading guilty to identical infractions last October that are violations of laws enforced by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).
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U.S. Marshals in Nashville Wednesday seized $1 million worth of food from a Tennessee food processor and storage warehouse. The federal agency took the police action on behalf of
Japan’s Muso Co. Ltd–the company that claims it introduced the United States to soymilk 28 years ago–is keeping mum about the alerts and recalls being issued around
Hams and other meat products that were subject to a recall in Canada originally were thought to have been distributed only in Ontario and Quebec.
Now, however, the Canadian Food
Unusually high iodine levels in Bonsoy Soy Milk are now being confirmed by other national food safety agencies, expanding a recall that originated in Australia and New Zealand around the
Missing details of National Steak and Poultry’s Christmas Eve recall of 124 tons of beef and the associated outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 are slowly coming out from
With as much as 30,000 tons of American poultry in the pipeline to Russia, the government in Moscow imposed a ban on future U.S. poultry imports on New
