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.
An Oregon tofu and soy-based food company covered up its distribution of products that the processor’s own testing found to be contaminated with microorganisms, according to the U.S.
Raw milk advocates did score one big victory this year.
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen on May 21st signed a law making it legal to own “cow shares” in order get
Maybe every state needs a “dirty Watergate.”
Every year beaches and lakes all over the country as closed down when levels of fecal coliform bacteria levels reach or exceed certain
California’s Department of Public Health is warning consumers in the Golden State not to eat Del Monte brand whole cantaloupe sold between Oct. 5th and 16th at Northern California
Marine biotoxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) have been detected at dangerously high levels in shellfish samples collected from north Puget Sound of Washington State.
The so-called “red tide”
Two recalls do not a trend make, but it makes you wonder if just maybe the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety & Inspection Service is looking under
Sometime in the middle of next week, Oklahoma’s “poultry litter” trial against the mostly Arkansas-based chicken industry will begin its second month in U.S. District Court in Tulsa.
The deadly Salmonella outbreak caused by peanut processing plants in Georgia and Texas is still being blamed for costing growers money, but it may just be good old supply and
Like a railroad engineer looking down the tracks and seeing nothing but green lights coming at him, JBS S.A. is now all but certain to take over America’s
The University of Wisconsin’s Dean of the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences in Madison takes over Nov. 9th as the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s deputy undersecretary
America’s oldest tofu company, San Francisco-based Quong Hop, has agreed to pay a $90,000 fine and without admitting to any wrongdoing agreed to comply with a list of
With cilantro, peppers, lettuce and undeclared milk and peanut protein, there is plenty new in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Enforcement Report for the week
