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 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
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.
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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
