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.
Canada is taking the United States to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) Dispute Settlement Body on Oct. 23rd over country of origin labeling.
Country of origin labeling (COOL)
Beef tongues without tonsils are a delicacy. Beef tongues with tonsils are banned product by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Tonsils are “specific risk material” (SRM) as they
Japan is trusting the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate why and how Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. exported a 35-pound box of spinal bones to the island nation.
Until
U.S. nut company John B. Sanfilippo & Son based in Elgin, IL has recalled two lines in its Baking Classics range due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.
John
A public health emergency remains in effect for Morobe province in Papua New Guinea (PNG), but the threat from an outbreak of a combination of cholera and Shigella-related dysentery is
The Agriplex at the Western Fair in London, Ontario, Canada might well be North America’s largest petting zoo with easily accessible stalls for 400 animals. Just ten years ago,
With small and organic farmers having the most apprehension about a future that is going to include better traceability and more inspections, a Salinas, CA business has popped up to
Routine testing by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) found possible contamination in ground beef at California’s San Diego Meat Company. As a result, about 925 pounds of
Professor Rick Holley at the Department of Food Science at the University of Manitoba gets quoted as much as anybody in Canada on his areas of expertise.
He serves on
When the New York Times recently reported that Tyson Foods Inc. would not sell beef trimmings to Costco because the retail giant routinely tests for E. coli O157:H7, it
On the same day the American Meat Institute (AMI) sent a letter demanding a meeting with Jerold R. Mande, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Deputy Under Secretary for
