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 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
The footprint of states where in mid-September consumers could have bought ground beef contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 is much larger than was originally reported.
When Fairbank Farms,
Two Dentley Beef Hoof products manufactured by Pet Carousel, Inc. in Sanger, CA were recalled Thursday by PetSmart, the national retail chain.
The two recalled products were sold at PetSmart
A New York State veal growing operation is violating the federal Food & Drug Act by improperly using a new animal drug, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
A Stop Sale order on imported catfish and basa product from Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, China and Vietnam has been re-imposed by the State of Alabama.
Commissioner Ron Sparks of
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) is using a “Warning Letter” to clean up deficiencies that may remain at Florida’s Tampa Peanut Distributors.
Earlier this year Salmonella
Political and legal ramifications of the now nationwide E. coli O157:H7 outbreak came into focus yesterday. Twenty-eight people from 12 states infected with matching strains of E. coli
Australians who want to continue the ban on beef imports from so-called “mad cow” countries are pinning their hopes on getting a federal Senate inquiry going to challenge the
They do things fast in Canada.
Four people were recently infected with E. coli O157:H7 at the Fredericton Wendy’s near Ontario.
Public health services quickly determined lettuce used
An outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 went beyond New England over the weekend to cast a shadow over 12 states, including three that are very distant from the Northeast,
The Wrexham County Borough Council is apparently going get to the bottom of a troubling question.
How did a “chippy bar,” which sells fish and chips boiled in oil and
