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.
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
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-
A report from the Illinois Department of Public Health on last summer’s outbreak of Hepatitis A at the Milan, IL McDonald’s is silent about what management of the
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Liberté Natural Foods Ltd. are warning the public not to consume the Western brand cream cheese products described below because they may be
Organic farms using manure as fertilizer may not be creating growing areas as fertile for foodborne pathogens as once thought.
A new computer model–called COLIWAVE–developed by researchers at
Tyson Foods Inc. says a Warning Letter it received in November from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) made some erroneous conclusions.
“Contrary to the impression left by
Seafood processors came in for their share of “Warning Letters” released Dec. 1st by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The letters, dated from Sept. 23rd to Nov.
One cannot help but wonder if the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has bitten off more than it can chew when it comes to tracking animals.
Five years and
