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.
Putting U.S. beef back on the shelves in Asia caused riots last year in Seoul and now it is bringing a street protest to Taipei on Saturday.
Taiwan and
Another state is tightening down on the use of “poultry litter”, that inviting mix of poop, sawdust, feathers and spilled feed that results from raising chickens and turkeys.
The State
In just three years since the 2006 E. coli O157:H7 outbreak from bagged baby spinach, the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (LGMA) is now policing over 110 companies that
Canadians are being warned not to feed their children, the elderly, pregnant women, or those with weakened immune systems ANY raw or undercooked sprouts.
Health Canada and the Canadian Food
Twenty-five people in ten states are part of a cluster of victims of an E. coli O157:H7 strain matched to ground beef from Fairbank Farms, the Centers for Disease
Canada is adding standards for handling aquatic animal pathogens to its current lineup for handling human and animal pathogens. And through the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), comments are being
Researchers discovered chronic wasting disease in Colorado and 42 years later the Centennial State remains at the center of studies into the fatal neurological disease found in deer, elk and
Food safety technology is going down that familiar path of making things smaller and quicker.
The latest example is found at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario where a team led
Early snow in the West’s high country sent deer, elk and moose down to lower elevations where hunters are waiting this hunting season. Hunters see themselves as rugged individualists
The first anniversary since people started getting sick with Salmonella Typhimurium from peanut products was marked by a national news service trying to find out what happened to the expected
