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.
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
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.
