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.
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
Whether new vaccines against E. coli O157:H7 can work well enough to be economically viable could be decided by new large field trials that are just getting underway.
Two
Reports of norovirus-associated illnesses in some people who had consumed oysters harvested in San Antonio Bay, which is located on the Gulf of Texas, has the U.S. Food and
Federal Judge S.W. Lew Tuesday could accept a schedule agreed to by Taco Bell, its produce supplier, Ready Pac Foods Inc., and their insurance companies that will culminate in
What was Kellogg’s thinking? That is the question one has to ask in reading this week’s enforcement report from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA).
One
Once upon a time, the U.S. Department of Labor was off and running with a new, popular workplace safety law to implement. Then they ran into Bill Barlow in
Safeway Stores in Arizona and Gallup, NM are recalling 22,000 pounds of fresh ground beef produced by Beef Packers Inc, a Cargill unit.
It has “Sell By” dates of
North America! Drop the Slim Fast and move away from the scale!
Both Unilever United States Inc. and Unilever Canada Inc. are recalling several of their Slim-Fast ready-to-drink products distributed
