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.
An 86 year old Wisconsin woman has reached an out-of-court settlement with the fresh produce growers and processors who she says poisoned her three years ago with a bag of
Last month, state agencies in Wisconsin warned the public not to drink raw milk after 13 people in the southeastern part of the state had become ill shortly after consuming
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth installment in a ten-part series on meaningful foodborne illness outbreaks.
It would be hard to over-estimate the impact of this outbreak. Food companies
This week’s Enforcement Report from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration first had us wondering if the recall of products with Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) ingredients will
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is making a contribution to government “transparency” with steps to improve its “Warning Letters” website.
In the past FDA has published the
Safety guidelines used in the United States might have prevented the E. coli O1157:H7 petting zoo outbreaks now underway in England and Canada, says an expert on the disease.
The 27 states that operate their own meat and poultry inspection for meat and poultry sold within a single state are about to get new markets for their products.
The
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth installment in a ten-part series on meaningful foodborne illness outbreaks.
Some outbreaks are wakeup calls for consumers. After Jack-in-Box, the public was associating
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) on Sept. 15th published a list of retailers that might have received one of the
When the largest ground beef recalls of the year involve antibiotic-resistant Salmonella strains and the largest E. coli O157:H7 recall is for raw cookie dough, maybe a story about
Last Mother’s Day, 14-year old Alex Roerick from New Mexico ate beef shish kabobs at his Grandmother’s house in Colorado.
During June, Bonna Cannon served beef products to
