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.
President Obama is too prone to making inflammatory remarks about food safety and it is “unnatural” to go this long without a “Senate-confirmed” Under Secretary for Food Safety at the
If the truck that hit you turned into a 100-car freight train before you could get it into court, would that be a good thing?
The youngsters who were infected
Editor’s Note: This is the eighth installment in a ten-part series on meaningful foodborne illness outbreaks.
For several years, cereal in a bag poised a silent danger to consumers.
Editor’s Note: This is the seventh installment in a ten-part series on meaningful foodborne illness outbreaks.
When the company that invented putting fresh produce in a bag ended up
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has promised the family of a Nevada woman that the U.S. Senate will take up a food safety bill this fall.
Reid, who
Editor’s Note: This is the sixth installment in a ten-part series on meaningful foodborne illness outbreaks.
Our reliance on imported fresh foods, and the danger they can sometimes pose,
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
