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.
America’s domestic catfish industry usually is not happy with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) over the regulation of foreign fish imports, but it will probably like
Tomorrow Food Safety News will celebrate its 3rd birthday. Third year? No, third month.
I will get back to that in a moment.
Editor & Publisher, the 125-year-old magazine seen
Histoplasmosis is an infectious disease caused by inhaling the microscopic spores of the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum, which can grow in poultry litter.
Chronic histoplasmosis affects the lungs and can be
A human carcinogen in cereal for babies is the reason for a new public health warning in Canada.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Heinz Canada are warning the
The sheer volume of products recalled because ingredients included peanut butter or paste made by Peanut Corporation of American (PCA) continues to pile up. Just think of how far 1.
When the perpetrators are paid before the victims you might think something weird is going on, or maybe you are just in the bankruptcy process.
That appeared to be what
The Dec. 8th story in Food Safety News on the warnings issued about certain cream cheese products erroneously reported that E. coli O157:H7 contamination was somehow involved.
The concern
The “inter-provincial marketing of potatoes” from Quebec to New Brunswick is a violation of the Canada Agricultural Products Act, and it comes with a fine.
According to the Canadian Food
In mid-November, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) reported having stopped at the American border in October the equivalent of a trainload of canola from Cargill Specialty Canola
In every year between 2000 and 2006, and now again in 2009, a Vermont livestock operation has violated federal law by selling cattle for slaughter that had drugs in their
America’s food manufacturers should listen up.
When inspectors from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) show up at your facility, these are among things they do not
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA’s) Dec. 2nd public warning about Western Creamery cream cheese products was expanded over the weekend.
Cheeses added to the recall were made
