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.
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
All Shiga toxin-producing E. coli–not just E. coli O157:H7–should be declared as adulterants under the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA), says a petition filed today with the
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) is getting help from an unlikely source—the Agricultural Marketing Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
AMS is the 5,
A second daylong public meeting for hearing comments on how to make sure the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is turning out information that is “useful, understandable, and
Food retailers and wholesalers are being offered web seminars and free subscriptions through the end of 2009 for the Rapid Recall Exchange if they subscribe by the end of October.
Canadians who had symptoms of listeriosis after eating contaminated deli meats from Maple Leaf Foods last year have until Nov. 2 to file for a share of a $25 million
Cleaning up the recalls of products that were made with either peanut butter or peanut paste continues to be a major effort at the U.S. Food & Drug Administration
One of the nastiest chapters in unsafe food is still unfinished business due to an ongoing federal lawsuit that is focused on fraud in the school lunch program.
The lawsuit
