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.
Almi Inc., a Philadelphia, PA-based pasta and pastry manufacturing plant is misbranding its products, but that’s not its worst offense.
Worse is not registering its very existence with the
His hometown newspaper, the Seattle Times, profiled Bill Marler last Monday.
As managing partner of Marler Clark, L.L.P, PS, which owns Food Safety News, we are used to
Two more popular television shows have recently disparaged agriculture, according to some who write from rural America.
Broadcasting false and disparaging information about agriculture could still land television personalities in
A Texas dairy west of Fort Worth offered an animal for sale for slaughter as food that was adulterated, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) says.
In a
A final report on the Fairbank Farms outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 from ground beef was issued Nov. 24th by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Among
A permanent injunction against Sharkco Seafood International Inc., located in Venice, LA to stop the seafood processing company from distributing scombrotoxin-forming fish in interstate commerce is being sought by the
Davis, CA-based Timco Worldwide Inc. is recalling a limited number of its Large Seedless Watermelons because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.
No illnesses have been reported
Tests for microorganisms by Silliker Laboratories in Columbus, OH found that those sliced turkey breast and gravy meals tossed out by Florida schools last week never were a food safety
A second lawsuit stemming from an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 was filed last week against Fairbank Farms, this one was on behalf of Augusta, Maine resident Margaret Long
The strange case of 50,000 pre-sliced turkey meals being pulled from the cafeterias of the Lee County Public School District in Florida remains just as strange this week as
Denver’s National Western Stock Show has no plans to eliminate its “petting farm” exhibit after infecting at least 30, mostly kids, with E. coli O157:H7 last year, sending
In what might be much ado about a recall involving only 90 pounds of ground beef, private lab results are being used to call into question the accuracy of the
