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 new on-line food training program has been developed by the Victoria, Australia Department of Health to improve everyone’s knowledge of safe food handling practices.
Victoria’s Chief Health
Fatty slaughterhouse trimmings that previously could be used only for pet food or for making cooking oil are now being treated with an ammonia bath that produces a “pink slime”
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has advised people not to consume Bonsoy soymilk. Coffee shops, retail and other outlets should also not use this product.
This follows a cluster
Elk hunting in Washington State’s Skagit River area came to an abrupt end Dec. 28th and it wasn’t pretty.
The state Wildlife Department says Elk Area 4941 was
San Simeon Inc. in Albuquerque and Chuck’s Seafoods Inc. in Charleston, OR are the latest seafood processors to run into trouble with the Food and Drug Administration over the
With 75,000 head, Millenkamp Cattle located northwest of Jerome, ID is not finishing out 2009 on a positive note. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigators early last September visited
During the 12 weeks from mid-September to mid-December in the federal courthouse in Tulsa, Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson put on a lot of evidence that it is poultry litter
A guilty plea last spring has brought a $5,000 fine this winter for a Winnipeg chicken farm.
The Evergreen Colony Ltd, doing business as Evergreen Poultry Farms, was convicted
1. New York Times reporter Michael Moss introduced readers to Stephanie Smith, a children’s dance instructor from Minnesota who is partially paralyzed from E. coli O157:H7. In Moss’
