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.
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
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
