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.
Two of 15 Rhode Island sixth graders who came down with diarrhea after attending a three-day camp in Massachusetts have tested positive for E. coli O157:H7 and are being
Meat and poultry producers from the 27 states that operate their own inspection services for meat and poultry processed by small plants whose sales are strictly intrastate get chances on
CSI Miami-Bad Seed
Air Date-10/19/2009
Full Episode-43.26
With a deadly but unnamed strain of E. coli starring in the world’s most popular TV show, we had
A Texas meat market originally recalled about 4,500 pounds of beef asada, beef stew meat, and ground beef for possible E. coli O157:H7 contamination.
As of late Wednesday,
Seven retail grocery stores in the San Francisco Bay area took possession of meat and poultry products that were NOT inspected by the federal government, the U.S. Department of
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.
