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.
This week’s enforcement report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can be summed up in two words: peanuts & pistachios. FDA continues to process the recalls
An outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 associated with a Massachusetts meat packer is spreading across New England, Food Safety News has learned.
Seattle food safety attorney Bill Marler was
The private water wells around Locust Grove are not safe to drink, but an exhaustive study by the State of Oklahoma failed to find any of the deadly E. coli
Three Texas teachers who were rushed to hospitals immediately after eating lunch on Monday probably are not suffering from a typical foodborne illness, experts say.
The Texas Rangers are investigating
The 36-year-old East Wind Community Inc., a commune in the Missouri Ozarks, has a Salmonella problem inside its nut butter manufacturing facility.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Seafood processing facilities in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Washington State were issued “Warning Letters” on Oct. 15-16th by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. (FDA).
The letters were released to
Illegal food carts in Reno area parks and near schools are being operated by a “criminal enterprise,” says Bob Sack, environmental services division director for the Washoe County Health District.
Vacuum Pack Dried Lesh (fish) is being recalled by Staten Island, NY-based San Link Inc. because the product was found to be uneviscerated.
The sale of unevicerated fish is prohibited
Celebrity Chef Heston Blumenthal will not face prosecution for serving shellfish contaminated with norovirus to his guests last winter at his Fat Duck restaurant.
The United Kingdom’s Health Protection
CSI Miami-Bad Seed
Air Date-10/19/2009
Full Episode-43.26
Take Two
The Corn Belt is not exactly rising up against CBS, but that “Bad Seed” episode on CSI Miami
Neither the Rhode Island nor Massachusetts health departments have yet told the public why 15 sixth graders came down with diarrhea, including two who tested positive for E. coli O157:
There’s a federal judge in Tulsa who probably feels like he is driving behind a slow-moving chicken truck on a narrow two-lane road. He’d like to go faster,
