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.
A new rapid test for E. coli O157:H7 has been developed by Salt Lake City-based Idaho Technology Inc. (ITI).
“Our objective is to help food processors effectively test for
Four years ago, frozen strawberries imported to Finland from Poland were found to be spreading norovirus across borders. More than 1,000 Finlanders became sick. A new norovirus outbreak may
This week’s Enforcement Report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) continues to be dominated by processing the recalls of products that used either peanut butter or
Two and half weeks before The New York Times put the beef industry’s safety flaws under a microscope, the meat industry had renewed its campaign for beef carcass irradiation
The parasite in the water at Seneca Lake State Park in the summer of 2005 is finally working its way through the New York Court of Claims.
Judge Nicholas Midey
Food stamps and WIC coupons going for double their face value are just some of the benefits the federal government is throwing at farmer’s markets.
No surprise then that
Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella, Inc. is not yet out of the regulatory woods with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA).
A new “Warning Letter” was sent on
For the first 12 years, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) could not write about it.
After 15 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was still
Canadian poultry producers have new national standards to comply with, Canada’s Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced Tuesday.
Called “The National Avian On-Farm Biosecurity Standard,” the new rules “focuses on
Mali in West Africa today has the same tenements, unsanitary conditions, and high infant mortality rate that Manhattan experienced in 1900.
That is cause for optimism when you are Dr.
In an apparent plea agreement reached prior to formal charging, an Eastern Pennsylvania cattle feed company agreed to pay $650,000 to settle federal charges that it shipped formaldehyde and
