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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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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